Crystal Lake SPOILER FILED TV Series Review

Yesterday I told you all that today I was going to be reviewing the show Crystal Lake and well i've finally just watched the final episodes of the show. Bottom line being this show is so worth watching and it's a show that I can't wait to talk to you all about as the more eyes that this show has on it the better it will be for the franchise in the long run as hopefully it will cause people who perhaps didn't know of the films to go and start watching them and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the show that is so good with the show in question being called simply just "Crystal Lake" enjoy.

The plot of this show is nine months after the supposed death of her son Jason Pamela Voorhees still believe that he is out there somewhere and when dead bodies start showing up in Crystal Lake the search is on to see if Jason is still alive or not. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. Whilst the show is rightfully getting alot of praise for it's acting all of which it does deserve by the way it also deserves to get alot of praise for the plot as the shows plot is so fresh and different as while it would have been very easy for the show to just tell a generic origin story for both Pam and Jason it doesn't do it. Instead it takes a more complex approach to its story by having it be wrapped around the idea of a mother not being able to express the fact that the her son quite literally cannot die which is something that does make the shows plot feel new and different as now the show gets to have this unique point of view one that really hasn't been all that considered before now that being what was Pam up to both in the time before and the time after Jason had first drowned and that is a unique way to look at things and to be fair the shows plot can now be something that no one thought that t would be and that's it can now be good and while yes the stuff with the hippies isn't that good as it doesn't really lead to anything all that interesting on the whole the shows plot was a really good one with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees , William Catlett as Levon Brooks and Gwendolyn Sundstrom as Grace. Also starring in this show is Cameron Scoggins as Dorf , Devin Kessler as Briana Brooks , Nick Cordileone as Ralph , Daniel Stewart Sherman as Enos , Bernadette Quigley as Trudy , Joy Suprano as Rita , Danielle Kotch as Claudette , Phoenix Parnevik as Barry , Brian J. Carter as John Christy , Nancy Nagrant as Kay Christy , Dan Thompson as Steve Christy , Manon Gage as Harmony , Oona Roche as Willow , Olivia Macklin as Trish , Callum Vinson as Jason Voorhees and Hamish Linklater as Elias Voorhees.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With all of the shows actors turning in some really good performances and the show itself rightfully getting alot of praise for its acting as it is something that does deserve alot of praise with even the shows kid actors turning in some really good performances which in all fairness was something that that was quite surprising to see as nine times out of ten a kid actor in either a TV show or film is usually the worst of the lot and yet here they more then hold there own when acting with the shows more established actors. With the best actor in this show being Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees which granted is a slight cliche thing to say as nearly everyone who has seen this show agrees that she is just so good in it but it's also something that is worth saying again and to not say so would disingenuous as she is just so good in this show with her not only capturing the spirit of the Betsy Palmer version of the character but also adding enough of her own spin on the character to make Pam feel like her own and not just copying what Betsy Palmer did in 1980 with the character. With the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show. 

The shows characters are a very mixed bag of affairs as while alot of them are really good there are some that just aren't that good. As not to sound like a broken record here but Pam was perhaps the best handled character out of the bunch due to the fact that in the first movie we really didn't get to spend alot of time with her before she revealed as being the main killer of the first Friday The 13th movie and therefor the makers of this film really went hog wild interms of fully fleshing out her characters as really the only thing that we knew about her character from that first film was the first that she loved her son Jason and that was it whereas here we do get to see what a devoted mother she was and we get to see things like her being a good bowler and her being a good cook both of which are small things yes but there also things that help to fully flesh out her character and make her more likable as not only a mother but as a character in her own right. However tho the show does have some really bad characters in it namely any of the hippie characters who are literally just there just to add to the body count as they add nothing to the shows plot which makes them feel like pointless characters with not one of them doing anything or saying anything that makes them memorable this is despite the fact that the characters themselves do appear in a very memorable sequence at the start of episode six and yet due to how very poorly done they are as characters we don't feel sorry for them rather we jump for joy when something bad does indeed happen to them and while Dork could be argued is a bad character as well he is meant to be more of the comedy relief character and in that regard he is harmless with him not really getting anything funny to say or do within the show itself and the same thing is true for the rest of the townsfolk as they harmless characters alot of which could have been alot more better.

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Whilst one might think that this film would cover all of the first Friday The 13th film this show stops just short of doing that. As the only real thing from the first film that it covers is the death of child Jason in episode one and the deaths of Barry and Claudette at the end of episode five and that's it and even then the show puts a spin on there deaths as while they do the whole POV thing that the first film did even down to having the character act very similarly to how they did in that film but when they die the episode then reveals that it wasn't Pam that killed them rather it was Grace which was honestly such a good reveal that when it happend I applauded the episode quite loudly as it was something that I never saw coming. Which is something that a good twist should do as we are all expecting them to just copy what they did in the first film and have it be Pam that kills them but by revealing that it was Grace that did it it then makes you wonder what else is going to happen differently from the first film and yet for no good reason that's where the show stops doing things in the first film as the rest of the show is mainly just its own thing that doesn't connect to the first film which is something that could be viewed as being a smart thing due to the fact that it does then open up the door for a potential second and maybe even third season of the show due to the fact that we know that Pam dies at the end of the first movie and with the show being centered around her it wouldn't make sense for them to just do the first movie right in the first season however now that the groundwork has been layed they could do it in a second or perhaps even third season as anything beyond that would be pushing the concept of the show a bit to far.

Whilst there are alot of things that do work in this show there are somethings that don't work in this show. Like for example the whole chemical plot that was just something that wasn't needed in the show as it doesn't add anything to Pam as a character nor does it add to her plot of trying to find Jason rather it's just there for the sake of being there which is a shame as te idea of introducing Jason's father Elias Voorhees is a good idea as it's a character that has quite literally never been seen in any of the films and therefor the makers of his show could have done anything that they wanted with him and as long as they kept him as Jason's dad it would have worked but they give him such a dull and boring plot to be in that it oddly feels like a huge disservice to the character. Another thing that really doesn't work for the show is the fact that the hippie characters and there plot is just pointless in the grand scheme of things as you could have had any group of characters play the role that those characters ended up playing and nothing would change as that's how little thought went into them heck once Harmony escapes Pam's rampage at the start of the episode 6 that character is never seen again in the rest of the show with her only being mentioned once very briefly by Enos in episode eight which begs the question of why have her character be the one to escape if your not going to do anything with her as you could have had her play a part of the third act of episode eight by haviug her trying to kill Pam only to end up getting killed by Jason which yes granted isn't much but it's still alot more better then forgetting the character even existed in the first place.

For a long time there has been a huge issue with the Friday The 13th timeline that being in Part 1 we see Jason as a kid at the end of the film and yet in Part II and every film after we see him as a full grown adult. This show actually explains how he was able to grow so tall in such a short amount of time as it turns out the chemical company that his dad working for was conducting experiments on Jason to make him super strong with this having the effect of giving him the skill to grow taller in such a short amount of time whilst still acting very much like a child altho this is something that does come at a cost as it does cost him his memories of his loved ones hence why he kills his father without a second thought and why he was close to killing Pam. This was quite frankly such a good idea as it does explain a huge plot hole that the films have had for literally decades now and it does it in a way that's inservice to the show as it explains why the people of Crystal Lake never found the body of a boy as by that point her would have started to grow his body into that of say a teenager or a pre-teen and while this is something that will get some fans of the franchise angry it is something that does work in the context of the show and given the fact that the movies never bothered to explain this change in height or appearance it did mean that the makers of this show could have done whatever they wanted to explain it and thankfully they went with the option that made the most sense whilst the stuff with the chemical company could have been left out of the show the stuff in episode seven which does give a very highly detailed backstory for Jason is something and whilst it wasn't perfect as we didn't need to know alot of things in that episode it is still something that works as an episode of this show.

Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and twenty second. Much like with the first four episodes each episode of these episodes as a running time between forty three minuets and fifty two minuets with the final episode of the show being a shockingly short forty three minuets and and thirties seven seconds with each episodes running time clearly being dictated by the plot which is a good as even tho episode 8 would have benefitted from having the longer running time due to the fact that it does have the more stories to wrap up it would have felt like the the episode would have being stretched thin tho if it did have that longer running time with the show having more then enough plot there to cover those amounts  of running time in the first place. With the show not really using it's eight episode running time all that wisely due to the fact the show doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot all that well as there is alot of filler plot in this show and while the show didn't need to be eight episodes as you very easily could have done this show in a breezy five episodes having those extra three episodes does allow us more time in this shows world with the makers of this show putting more thought and effort into Jason's backstory then they did into giving the plot some actual plot development. This is something that does also effect the shows character development as while you could argue that Pam not getting any character development is due to her going more and more insane the more the show goes on which is something that does make sense the same thing is also true for the rest of the episodes characters infact Claudette regresses as a character as in one episode she becomes a born again Christian and renounces getting with Barry until marriage only for her in the very next episode renounce being a Christian just to get with Barry with this being due to the fact that they had to redo the opening of the first Friday The 13th film and that's really it with the makers of this show putting more thought and effort into how Bag Head Jason looks then they did into giving the characters some character development but i really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.  

So now then as this a slasher show that actually mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With the shows more over the top and gory kills being some of the better aspects of the shows more weaker episodes with there being at he very least one kill in every single episode with this being something that didn't really need to be in the sow and its something that does prove that the makers of this show really did know that in order to do a slasher show and do it well you do need to have at the very least one or two kills in the show. With the best kill in the whole entire show not really being one kill as it's the sequence where Pam does kill of alot of the hippie characters as we do get to see alot of fun and creative kills like for example one of them gets what might have been a knife threw his camera lens which was a fun kill to see with alot of them just getting stabbed a bunch of times by Pam with the thing that makes this set of kills truly stand out being the fact that it's important to the lore of the franchise moving forward as this is where Pam gets her hatred of any and all of the camp counselors that work there be it permanently or in the case of the hippies on a temporary bases which is something that is key to the films as the Pam that we see in the first Friday The 13th film kills everyone that works at the camp regardless of if there a camp counselor or not and heck an unseen Jason even gets to kill one of them of as one of the hippie's attacks Grace and Jason defending her kills him with there being some really good make up effect on all of the shows kills with the rest of the shows kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall if you haven't done so yet go and watch this show as it is so good regardless of if your into really gory kills or not there is something in here for you as the show does have alot of really good acting and writing in it all of which make this show be alot more better then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and a swell as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in tis very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of Crystal Lake

Believe it or not it's been over seventeen years since we last got a theatrically released Friday The 13th movie due to the rights to the franchise being more complicated then the timeline for the Halloween movies. Which makes the show that i'm going to be taking not only today but also tomorrow all the more surprising as we finally have something new in the Friday The 13th series and it's this very TV show that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the show that that has Velma from the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie in a leading role with the show in question being called simply just "Crystal Lake" enjoy.

The plot of these first four episodes is nine months after her son Jason drowns at Camp Crystal Lake former camp cook Pamela Voorhees still believes that her son is alive and will go to any length to prove it. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the idea of exploring a part of the franchises timeline that hasn't been explored in the films s a really good idea as it not only allows for fan favorite characters to return but it does also allow for new fans to get invested with the characters at the same time. Heck the plot for these first four episodes is also quite interesting as we do get to see a woman get pushed so far to the edge and seeing just how far that Pam is willing to go to just to prove her point is an interesting things to be added to the shows plot as it would have been very easy for this show to have her start of the show firmly insane and then get worse after the death of Jason but the fact that the show starts out with her being this genuinely kind and caring mother only to then start going insane is an interesting aspect to add to the plot of these episodes as now we the audience get to the chance to see her slowly unravel and become this more sick and twisted person and while yes there are certain aspects of the plot that aren't that well are that could have been alot more better there is still a chance that those aspects could be better in the latter half of the show with the plot of these episodes also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these episodes is Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees , William Catlett as Levon Brooks and Gwendolyn Sundstrom as Grace. Also starring in these episodes is Cameron Scoggins as Dorf , Devin Kessler as Briana Brooks , Nick Cordileone as Ralph , Daniel Stewart Sherman as Enos , Bernadette Quigley as Trudy , Joy Suprano as Rita , Danielle Kotch as Claudette , Phoenix Parnevik as Barry , Manon Gage as Harmony , Brian J. Carter as John Christy , Nancy Nagrant as Kay Christy , Dan Thompson as Steve Christy  , Jason Fuchs as Nate , William Hill as Gus , Drew Scheid as Shutterbug , Philip Themio Stoddard as Gabe , Lark White as Stella Blue , Nate Kelderman as Plato , Albert DiCesare as Space Ghost , April Consalo as Rhiannon , Kevin Interdonato as Jimmy Demilo and Callum Vinson as Young Jason Voorhees.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. To put it bluntly the acting that we have here in these four episodes is just so much more better then what it really should have been with this being something that is quite shocking as while we have one big named star in the show the rest of the shows actors aren't that big of name with even all of the supporting characters in these episodes being played by unknown actors with this being something that does make the fact that even they turn in some good performance be all the more shocking as by all rights they should have been really bad and yet they end up being really good. With the best actor in these episodes very easily being Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees as my god is she so good in these four episodes alone with her really putting across the fact that Pam is struggling to survive without her beloved son and nine times our of ten she does all of this without any dialog she just uses her eyes or she just gives you a look and within that look you do get the feeling of torment that this character is going through every single day of the week heck her acting is just so good that it wouldn't be surprising if the makers of this show put her name forward to be nominated for an award for this show as she is just so good. With the acting that's in these very episodes really being helped by the fact that these episodes scripts are just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these very episodes.

The characters in these four episodes are pretty well done as while there are some characters that could have been alot more better there are alot more that are handled really well. It does of course go without saying that Pam is a really well written character as due to the fact that she only appeared at the end of both the first and second movies the films really couldn't do anything with her character and therefor the show had and took the chance to fully flesh her out by showing us that she is this single mother who is struggling to make the rent and raise a kid on her own and yet she also does very deeply love and care for Jason with there scene together at the start of episode 1 being a very touching and heartwarming scene. However tho there are some characters that are handled pretty badly as even the characters of Barry and Claudette as even tho Claudette didn't get a line of dialog in the opening scene of the first film and Barry got half of a sentence you did still get the impression that they were just normal kids and nothing more then that whereas here in these four episodes they make Barry out to be bully and Claudette for alot of those first four episodes does come across as meaning well but almost cruel in her own way and this just doesn't feel true to how they came across as being in the first film whereas with a character like Rita or even Levon this wouldn't be that big of an issue as they were created for this show and heck both of those characters are done better then two of the shows many legacy characters altho to be fair they do something interesting with Crazy Ralph that dies make you view his characters in the early Friday The 13th films in a new light.

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The film does go out of it's way to give Pam not only a life outside after Jason by showing her dating Levon the town sheriff but also in showing her openly befriend Grace. A kid that Jason was presumably best friends with ad to be honest seeing her scenes with both of those characters is genuinely heartwarming as that's when we get to see who Pam was prior to Jason dieing as we see her act as mother figure to Grace and while there is a really creepy and well done scene with getting turned on while she's with Levon and she sees some fire trucks going to the place where she's just killed someone seeing there relationship grow and seeing them become a rock for each other is something that was sweet to see even tho it could very well be seen as Pam getting closer to him so that she'll know right away if he finds out about any of the crimes that she's done. This is something that does make episode four be in it's own way kind of tragic as Grace even tho she doesn't find out that Pam killed her mom she still tells to Pam to get away from her with there bond beginning to fracture and it is something that does make you wonder if Grace is going to make it out of the series alive or not as while she was friends with Jason she was never close friends with Pam and with Pam going more and more insane by the episode it does mean that anyone who was a foe to her when this all happened is now prime to be killed of and there is a very good chance that the insane version of Pam might very well view Grace as an enemy and not as friend, whereas with Levon it is something that could go either way as while Pam is indeed in love with him he is also trying to work out who did the crimes that she herself committed in the first place.

Peacock really did miss a trick here as if they had waited just one month then they could have released the show on an actual Friday the 13th. Yet they instead to chose to release it in the middle of October which OK fair enough October does have halloween in it and this is a horror show afterall but you can watch horror on literally any day of the week therefor wouldn't it have been more fun to see this show drop on an actual friday the 13th that is something that does make alot more sense as people would already be on edge due to how unlucky many people perceive that date to be an therefor to have a new installment of the franchise that's build around that date it something that does make more sense then releasing it in October. This is a show that might have benefitted from releasing it's episodes weekly and not all at once as unless your Netflix your not going to gain subscribers from dropping all of your episodes at once and given the fact that this show is built around this one character going insane it would made alot more sense to drop the episodes weekly as then you will get more people coming back to your service on a hopefully full time basis and you'll also get alot more people talking about your show on social media for a longer look at something like the Scrubs revival which was yes does also air on ABC but the episodes also drop on Hulu and it would have been very easy for Disney to put the rest of the episodes on Hulu before they air on TV and yet didn't do that and because of that more people are going to come to Hulu to watch the show and it is something that could have worked for this show as this show is good enough to that and it has a big horror franchise attached to it therefor it's going to get alot of people watching the first episode in the first place. 

While these episodes do get alot of things right like for example making Crazy Ralph a gun obsessed war vet with PTSD. Sadly one of the things that it does get wrong is the fact that alot of the characters in these episodes just aren't that likable heck the only truly likable characters in these episode are Grace , Pam and Levon and that's it as the rest of the townsfolk spend alot of time making fun of Jason behind Pam's back and when they clearly see that she's in distress in episode one not one of them tries to help her rather they all gather around her telling her things that all serve to make it worse granted the whole point of this show is to make you route for Pam and that does mean giving her some unlikable characters to interact with but alot of the characters that are meant to be her friends just aren't that likable as characters. As all this does is make us want Pam to kill them whereas if the makers of this show had still gave them negative aspects but also showed us reasons as to why they are like that like they do with Grace and her mom in episode three then it would go along way into making the characters alot more likeable and if Pam does indeed kill them later on in the show which in all fairness she very well might do then it would make those deaths be all the more tragic as then we would be seeing more of just how far she has fallen as then she'd be willing to kill genuinely good hearted people but as they are these are characters that you can't wait to die and while we know that both Enos and Ralph won't die due to the fact heat there in the first film Rita for example very well could die as could Trudy and Steve's parents for example.

Now then these episode have / had an exact grand total running of exactly fifty six minuets and six seconds with the episodes ranging from as high as fifty six minuets in episode one to as low as forty minuets and fifty five seconds in episode three. Which to be fair is fairly solid thing to do as it does show the episodes plot is dictating the running time of the episode and not the other way around and after looking at the running times for the other four episodes it does appear as if that will also be the case for those episodes as well which is a great thing to see happening as as much as it pains us to see a good show have short running times the plot should always dictate how long an episode is and not the other way around with these episodes having more then enough plot there to fully cover there respective running times. Yet even s alot of the episodes don't really use there respective running times all that wisely as alot of them don't fully develop there plots which is find for episode one as that is setting up the plot and it therefor does get a little bit slack there but episode two has a very underdeveloped plot when it really shouldn't have done due to the fact that the main plot was already set up but to be fair tho episodes three and four are where the series really does get cooking plot wise with the makers of this show putting alot more thought and effort into the references to the films then they did into giving us well thought out and developed plots. This is something that is also true for the shows characters which in all fairness is fair enough as you could argue that alot of the character will get the development later on in the show and it could well be argued that Pam not getting character development does allow for her decent into madness to be all the more tragic but none of the films other characters get any kind of character development either with the makers of this show being more focused on making us feel sorry for Jason then they did in giving the characters some character development but I really will admit tat these epsodes really do have some really good pacing to them tho. 

So now the as this is a slasher show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills tat are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the kills that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes were in all honesty really good. With the episodes making us of alot of practical effects for it's gore and it is something that really does stand out out as it would have been very cost effective for the makers of this show to just do there kills inside of a computer and call it a day but the fact that they went the extra mile to create these very good looking practical effects for these brutal kills is something that does standout in all if the right ways. With the best kill in these four episodes being the death of Grace's mom in episode three as after she starts bad mouthing Pam at the diner where she works Pam picks up a hammer like weapon smacks her across the face breaking her face in the process with Grace's mom lashing out rightfully so with Pam simply sidestepping her and sending her into the chip frier which is just such a brutal kill that des have some really impressive looking gore effects in it which might have been enhanced with CGI as we get to see the inside of Grace's moms face and we do get to see her missing several teeth and while it's not the goriest kill in these four episodes as the double kill in episode one is alot more gorier in terms of blood interms of story importance this one does have that kill beat as while the kill in episode one is apart on Levon's story the kill in episode 3 is a major part of Grace's story with the rest of the episodes kills being just as as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall these four episodes were alot of fun to watch and they do take certain characters that we know and love from the films and do something interesting with them and heck these four episodes do go along way in proving that there is still life in this franchise yet in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this post and while this is only my first impressions of this already released show i'll be watching the final four episodes tomorrow with me then doing the full series review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

The Slasher Nurse Film Review

When alot of people think of horror movies that usually think of the big films that all of the major studios are putting out. However there are a whole range of smaller horror films out there alot of which do star very well known horror actors in them such is the case with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today with this film having very much 1978 Halloween vibes mixed in with maybe Scream at a stretch and so then join me as I review the film that will put you off going to the nurse with the film in question being called simply just "The Slasher Nurse" enjoy.

The plot of this film is twenty years after a prank goes wrong some friends get together at a holiday home and have to survive when someone from there past starts killing them all of one by one. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's  actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not hat bad. With the films basic premise being something that does work however there in lies the problem as it's a premise that we've seen done to death in countless slasher films like Terror Train and Prom Night all of which featured a killer that getting revenge on a group of kids for a prank gone wrong. The films plot whilst it is a pretty good plot in it's own right is also one that is rather on the thin side of things as the film does pick up and drop its plot alot of the time and it does get to the point where we are left to wonder what the main plot of the film of the film is even supposed to be and give the fact that this film does have a long running time that is not something that we should be wondering as while the premise of the film is one that has worked in the past and does work again here the makers of this film don't put in the effort to make that premise work as the plot of a film rather they are just relying on us the audience to know what happens next as there is not alot of love put into this films plot with it feeling like the plot of the film is secondary to everything else in the film with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Regina Groth as Grace , Chanda Rawlings as Macey , Gretchen Settle as Brooke and Joshua Kirpach as Evan. Also starring in this film is Diana Prince as Nurse Jaime , Brian Bremer as Mark Sidowra , Arianna Harris as Young Brooke , Beverly Randolph as Dr. Alexandria Costanza , Sawyer Williams as Young Evan , Austin Greene as Bobby , Jim Krut as Fred , Christopher Korek as the voice of the Radio DJ , Steven Kiseleski as the voice of a Bar Patron , Caroline Emily Johnson as Young Grace , Amber Fulcher as The Nurse , Valarie Stylc as the voice of the Woman on Intercom , Brucellious Morris Jr. as Conner , DeRome A. Chretien as Detective Reines , Brendan Lynch as Landon , Bryan M. Dorn as the voice of a Cop , Jeff Kotowicz as Dr. Kotowicz , Michael McGlynn as Detective Ledbetter , Sean Cameron Dalton as Aiden , Molly Murphy as Piper and Felissa Rose as Christina and Valarie.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's  actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not hat bad. This films acting is about as good as you'd think that it was going to be given the fact that it does star of bunch of unknown actors and is a very low budget horror film with the only named actor in the film being Felissa Rose and that's it but in all fairness tho this films actors that bad its just that there not that good either with there performances being bland and forgettable with this mainly due to the fact that this films writer and director David Kerr clearly has no idea of how to direct his actors with it being something that does show through in the film itself. With the films best actor also bein it's most well known actor Felissa Rose as she has a duel role in this film as the cat loving Christina and the mysterious Valarie and yet she plays them both really well with her being the only actor where it feels like she is in this movie for the love of horror movies and not just so they can collect a paycheck which is something that it does feel like alot of the time not to be to harsh on the rest of the films actors as there issues stem from a lack of direction but they did still need to put in some effort which is something that Felissa does do with her having her own charm and charisma that really do shine through in the final film. With the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to harm the overall quality of the acting thats in the first film. 

Much like alot of these really low budget horror films the characters in this film really aren't all that good. With alot of them quite frankly being dull and boring characters and the ones that aren't dull and boring have nothing interesting about them that makes you want to know more about them as characters with all of this films characters being the kind of character that you'd expect to see on the first draft of a script and not the characters that you won't to see in the final cut of a film as all they are are stereotypes and that's it and there not not even good stereotypes there just nothing with us having the dumb jock , and the smart one and the rest of them are all the dumb one with Grace being the kind one these characters are just s badly handles as the makers of this film don't really do anything with them that explores who they are as characters. Granted this film didn't have a large budget and therefor wouldn't have been able to afford to do either a rewrite of the films script to fix the characters to film extra scenes that expand on the characters and make them feel more fleshed out but all this does is hit home the fact that the makers of this film don't have any clue on how to create any memorable characters as there's nothing about them that stands out and that makes them memorable alot of the horror films that have the main villain be a kids TV character whilst those films are indeed really bad no one is ever going to deny that but alot of them at the very least make an attempt to have well done characters whereas here it did feel like the makers of this film didn't care enough about the characters to make them interesting when this is something that they really needed to do to make the film work more better then what it already does.

There are parts of this film very early on that gave of vibes to both the original Prom Night and Halloween but for different reasons. With the whole killer being someone that is seeking revenge for a death in the past is something that was the plot of the original Prom Night and while that idea is done well enough in this film it was done better in that film and with Halloween there are shots in this film where the  character is either called Piper or The Nurse appear in the background and no creepy music plays to make that moment feel forced and this is something that was done in the original Halloween and while again it is something that is done well enough in this film it was done better in that film as that film was made by a master of the horror genre. While it was nice to see the film tip its hat to those films in those kind of ways things did get a little bit to much when it almost getting to the same level of meta as the first Scream film only without the charm as the opening of the film ha Young Piper and Young Grace exploring a creepy old house that they plan on using for filming a horror movie that they want to make where they discuss where to put a scare in the scene which was something that wasn't needed as it felt like that the makers of this film were just trying to copy what the first Scream did only it wasn't being clever with what it was satirizing whereas if the film just stuck to giving us vibes from the first Halloween and Prom Night whilst it wouldn't have made the film any better it would have made it appear as if the makers of this film knew that they were never going to top what was done in that first Scream movie.

For some odd reason the makers of this film thought that we really needed to have a detective subplot in this film. As while the main plot of the film is going on we then cut back to two detectives trying to find the escaped Piper who is doing all of these killing and it's something that just isn't needed as it just feels like the characters in that subplot where only there to add bodies to the kills and that's it as the detective side of the story for a large portion of the films running time adds nothing to the main plot of the film until that is the final ten or fifteen minuets of the film where the film does some Olympic level gymnastics by having one of them explain that Grace is actually working with Piper with the call that the detective make to get the information being something that was never shown to us on screen. Just to be clear here we got alot of scene prior to the killer even showing up at where the friends are staying none of which service the film at all outside of them telling us that Piper was never as sweet and innocent as she made herself out to be and that's it and yet the actual crucial part of that storyline is something that the makers of this film didn't show us this is something that does make it feel like that they had no idea on how to end that storyline as just as soon as they make that big reveal both Grace and the cop that told Macey that news get killed of and it's never mentioned for those final few minuets not even in passing therefor it had to be something that wasn't in the original script and heck it's not even something that's built up at all as we don't see Grace acting differently when the killer Piper is around and nor do we see her go off somewhere of screen when a character is killed and yet this whole thing was meant to be there plan for them to get revenge on those that harmed and nearly killed Piper at the start of the film.

To be frank the best parts of the film outside of the films admittedly gory kills where the scenes with Felissa Rose. With her scenes even hinting that she'd be appearing in a sequel film due ti the fact she is playing to different characters and yet after checking the IMDB page for the sequel called "The Slasher Nurse: Farm House" which is a twenty minuet short film she's not in that film however there is still a chance that she could appear in future film as from what i've gathered just by reading the IMDB pages for the other films they do seem stick pretty close to continuity altho it does appear as if this one is set in a different fictional world to the other films tho but either way it really would still be nice to see her in more of these films as she is really good in this film and does act rings around the rest of this films actors. Given that the makers of these films do seem to be horror fans as the original film did have some horror references in it it is something that would make sense they did bring her back as she is a horror icon but at the same time tho given the fact that she does have several films all in various stages of being made it would be hard to get to commit to doing another full film this is despite the fact that the idea of her playing two vastly different characters is a good idea as there is a good chance that one of both of her characters are hiding something dark in them which would be really fun to explore in a future film and is something that if it's done right could work well within the world of this film as you really could have it be so that either Christina and Valarie or perhaps even both of them where some of the original nurses that Piper had looking after her at the hospital and that's really it as the rest would write itself.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty four minuets and forty two seconds. No matter which way you look at it this is a really long time for a horror film like this one to be as there is no reason for the film to be this film as you very easily could have gotten this film down to one hour and thirty minuets just by cutting alot of the pointless police stuff and by trimming down the films opening scene as alot of that happens in the films opening scene isn't needed and if you strip that down to what is needed then you do save alot of time with the same thing being true for the police scenes as well with this film having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even with this film being as long as it is it still doesn't use its running time all tat wisely due to the fact that the film doesn't take the time that it clearly has to fully develop its plot as the film doesn't seem all that interested in giving us a good plot with good ideas rather it seems to be more interested in the relationship drama between some of the friends and all that does is eat up screen time that could have been better spent developing the films plot with the makers of this film putting more though and effort into the films police scenes then in giving the films plot plot development. Heck this is something thats also true for the films character development as none of the films character et any kind of character development but given that the films characters have no actual character to speak this is something that was to be expected and yet it really didn't have to be that way as if the makers of this film did put some amount of thought into the films characters then they really could have been some really good characters and yet the makers of this film where more bothered about giving us a lame and unfunny post credits scene then they were in giving the films characters some actual character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really dos mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The films kills to be frank here are the best aspect of the film as that's where you get to see where all of the films budget went and while yews some of the films kills are let down by the badly down sound effects when they all come together in the right way that 's when we get to see good stuff with the film for the most part having some really good gore effect something which was unexpected given the films tiny budget. With best kill in the whole entire film being the death of Evan s first we get to see The Nurse / Piper knock him out and then when he wakes up he's tied to bed by duct tape where The Nurse first rips of his jaw to stop him from talking and then does the same thing to several over parts of his body before then sawing him in half which was a really impressive thing to see as this film didn't have a big budget and therefor it would have been understandable if the makers of this film didn't have alot of gore in the film as they wouldn't have been able to afford and yet here in this one scene we get to see some really impressive looking gore effects which fair enough won't look as good as the gore effects in a big budget horror movie but for a film that was made for less then twenty thousand American dollars the gore in that scene and the kill itself was really impressive with the rest of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this film isn't all that bad its hard to say that its good either as while the film does get alot of thigs wrong it does also get some things right with the only thing that it needed to be a good film was the right creative team behind it and that's it as the film had it all there to be a really good film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from tenor , IMP Swards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Carrie 1976 Film Review

Stephan King adaptations are dime a dozen these days with his books getting turned into movies and TV shows and yet his first book hasn't been adapted all that often. With the latest adaptation of his first book coming out this Wednesday as a TV miniseries and while it really won't top the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today it really can't be worse then the 2013 film version and so then join me as I review the film that has a killer prom with the film in question being called simply just "Carrie" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when she is bullied Carrie White starts to display telekinesis meanwhile one of her bullies finds a new way to torment her one which will end up causing the deaths of alot of people. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To be honest her this films plot still works really well fifty years later as its core its a plot about girl getting bullied and feeling unloved and that is something that is still relevant today with how this film handles it being something that makes this films plot standout. As it does take the time to let you really get to know Carrie instead of just having the film start of with her displaying her skills we see what it is that pushes her to that point and while the same thing is also true for the 2013 film version as well it's something that works all the more better in this film due do the fact that the plot does go out of it's way to show us that Carrie is this outcast and isn't that good at making friends whereas in the 2013 film due to how horribly that film was cast it wouldn't make much sense for that films version of the character to be this outcast and while the plot of this film isn't all that strong in the grand scheme of things due to how much thought and effort is put into the plot you can tell that there is a lot of love for this story being told with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Sissy Spacek as Carrie White , Amy Irving as Sue Snell and William Katt as Tommy Ross. Also starring in this film is Nancy Allen as Chris Hargensen , John Travolta as Billy Nolan , Betty Buckley as Miss Collins , P. J. Soles as Norma Watson , Sydney Lassick as Mr. Fromm , Stefan Gierasch as Mr. Morton , Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell , Piper Laurie as Margaret White and Edie McClurg as Helen Shyres.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Everything in regards to the casting of this film is just perfect as every single actor in this film does feel perfectly cast almost as if they were born to play these characters so much so that it is hard to picture anyone else playing these characters and while it would have been super easy for them to go with a known actor for the lead role the fac that they went with the relatively unknown Sissy Spacek as Carrie White does make it alot more easier to buy into her performance as now we get the chance to just see the character and not see the actors. With this films best actor being Sissy Spacek as Carrie White as she is just so good in this film with her really capturing the true spirit of Carrie as she's not this evil person she's just someone who was pushed to far and this is something that you do get with her performance with it being helped by the fact that Sissy isn't the most good looking person out there and wasn't that well known when she got cast in the part therefor when you first see her on screen you don't see this well known actor playing a role you see the character with this again being something tat the 2013 film got wrong as they cast a very good looking and well known actor in the lead role and this is a role that does require you get an unknown person who isn't the best looking person out there to play her, with the fact that Sissy even went out of her way to not wash her face for a week and to rub Vaseline into her hair and wear childhood clothes being something that does prove that she was right for this role with her having her own unique charm that really does come through in her performance in this film. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this actors films have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

While alot of the characters in most Stephan King adaptions are usually pretty bland here it does feel like that there was some sort of effort put into the films characters. With alot of the films characters being very well rounded and well thought out characters with a good example of this being Sue as unlike alot of the people who bully Carrie at the start of the film she openly shows remorse for her actions and tries to make things right by getting Carrie to go to the prom with her boyfriend this is something that does make the character feel alot more thought out as while her actions are seen as servicing the plot of the film they also help to make her a well thought out character who does care about Carrie as her actions at the start of the film could very easily be chalked up to peer pressure and just wanting to fit in and yet she openly goes against that when she sees what harm that she's done and proves that she is a good kid by going about setting it right. Another example is oddly enough Carrie White herself as the makers of this film almost go out of there way to make us care for Carrie by showing us that she does have a troubled life as she lifes at home an overly religious mother whom hasn't tought her the most basic of things with her even being abused not only by the kids in school but also in a way her own teachers and her mother these are things that do make you care for her character and make you feel sorry for her even the opening of the film does this by having this almost heavenly music play over the opening titles and showing what might be Carrie just happily brushing her hair before then getting in the locker room shower its a small thing as its almost dream like in it's own way but it does make us care for Carrie as a character.

Much like how this film does go out of it's way to make Carrie White very much the victim prior to the events at the end of the film. The film does go out of it's way to show the lengths that Chris Hargensen is willing to go to to make sure that she get's revenge on Carrie for doing literally nothing other then existing as we see Chris plan to dumb pigs blood on Carrie and convince her best friend Norma to swap the votes to make sure that she's right where Chris needs her to be these are things that while they don't make Chris as memorable of a villain as say Chucky or Freddy Krueger for example they do still make her a really good villain as she is willing to go to the lengths that no other character in this film is willing to go t to get the job done. Heck the fact that we never get to see Chris's father or even a hint at her home life does make it all the more better as for all we could know she could have a very happy and healthy home life with a mother and father that lover her dearly this that if it was to be case would make the fact she is a bully all the more upsetting and real as even people who do have those things can still be a bully as they are by there very nature still human and therefor prone to making mistakes with the mistake that Chris makes in this film being the fact that she tries to run over a very much angry Carrie instead of just running out of town, given the fact that we do see her get abused by both her boyfriend and her P.E. teacher tho it is safe to assume that her life at home isn't much better as the first thing she does when she gets lapped in the face by either of them is get angry which suggests that she's used to it from other people.

For those of you that don't know not only was this the first Stephan King adaptation it's also an adaptation of his very first book and came out a few short years after the book itself came out. With the film itself being mostly faithful to the book outside of how Carrie dies as in the book she dies when giant rocks fall and crush her and her mother and while they did attempt to film this ending there was an issue with the recording and the giant rocks that they had made looked like water droplets therefor they had to come up with a new ending with Carrie accidentally causing her house to burst into flame and crumble around her which crushes her and to be frank this ending works well for this film but the ending in the book works better for the book as this films ending is more cinematic and is more of an epic ending whereas the one in the book would have looked to goofy in the film despite it being a good ending for the book to have. Another change made from the book to the film is the fact that the book frequently has these letters written about the prom as if it was a crime with the letters outright painting Carrie as the sole villain of the piece and questioning weather something could have been done to stop it from happening in the first place this is something that of course had to be dropped for the film version as there would have bee no way to make a gimmick like that that work for the film and heck it's something that hasn't been in any theatrically released version of the books story which is something that does prove that it is something that could only work in the book, as if it was done in any other media it would come across as being two goofy for it's good with the only way that something like that could have worked being if the film intercut the main story with scenes with a police officer interviewing people around the town about the events of the film and even then that's a bit to much of a stretch as the film does work perfectly fine without it.

Whilst this film is rightfully classed as being a horror film as it does have alot of fantastic and well done scares in it. This film to me is more of a drama film due to the fact that we do spend more time with Carrie being bullied and feeling unsure of herself as even when Tommy does do something genuinely nice for her by asking her out to the prom she thinks that it's a trick and that people are pulling a prank on her when in actuality he's just a good kid trying to do something nice to someone with Carrie's own mother knocking her confidence by abusing her and making think that everything she does is a sin therefor Carrie has no real way to lash out in a healthy way as everything she does is deemed as being wrong by someone in the film. With the only time that it truly becomes a horror film being the prom scene and even then in the build up to that scene you could argue that its more of a drama film then a straight forward horror film and yet this is something that all could have been avoided if Chris had just stopped for one single second to think about how Carrie feels when she bullies her at the start of the film, with even that scene being hard to watch because of the fact that Carrie genuinely had no idea what was happening to her and really did think that she was going to die all of these things combined not only make her a tragic character but also make the film feel more like a drama and yet when the film does flip to being a horror film due to the fact that the film has spent so much time in letting get to know and like Carrie as a character that scene at the prom comes of as still being scary due to how far that she's fallen.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty eight minuets and nine seconds. To be frank this is a solid running time for this film to have as the film doesn't need to have that long of a running time as the book that's based off isn't that long in the first place and therefor it would have made no sense for this film to be all that long which is something that does make you wonder how the new TV miniseries is going to fair as that show is ten times longer then this movie which does make you wonder if the makers of that show are going to justify there longer running time by having pointless filler scenes which thankfully this film doesn't have with the film having more ten enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With this film using its running time wisely as it does take the time to fully develop it's plot as there are plenty of scenes in this film that are all about adding things to the plot be it from Chris getting herself kicked out of Prom or even Carries mother saying that everyone will laugh at her if she does go prom all of these things are yes small things in the grand scheme of things but they are also things that do make this films plot be more developed as there are no scenes in this film does feels wasted as they are all about adding something to the films plot and making it feel alot more well developed. This is something that is also true for the films character development as alot of the films characters get character development even if it's Carrie going from the hero the film to a misunderstood villain or even Sue learning the error of ways early on in the film bottom line being these characters do in there way grow as people due to what they go through in the course of this film with the only more then likely two of three characters that don't get any character development being Tommy , Billy and Chris and that's pretty much it with the makers of this film putting alot of thought and effort into giving this films characters some character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a horror film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. While we do really get only one major kill sequence in this film it is something that is earned due to how well the makers of this film did at making us love Carrie and loath Chris as while yes Carrie does end up killing countless people she herself is still a victim as she was bullied by Chris with it being her prank that pushed Carrie over the top and made her start killing all of those people in the first place. With the best kill in the whole film being of course the entire prom sequence as that whole sequence from start to finish even tho it doesn't last very long is still masterfully done from both a directing , editing and music point of view that entire sequence is just perfection as we do get to understand where Carrie has come from and while we do understand that the makers of this film still don't shy away from making her look looking really creepy when they need her to as she looks insane during that whole sequence and it's something that does work for the film even her hearing her own mothers words and as she imagines everyone in the school laughing at her with the only one who actually was laughing at her being Norma it makes that whole sequence just so cool and so scary with there even being alot of really cool deaths in that sequence be it Normal getting killed with the water hose or Mrs. Collins getting crushed by the basketball backboard with the rest of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall the new Carrie does have alot to live up to if it wants to be anywhere near as good as this film is with this film getting alot of things right be it from the acting to how the prom scene is done this film is true masterclass on how to tell the Carrie story in a way that does justice to the original book in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thins that are n this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does eafn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for whete I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.