Freddy Vs. Jason Film Review

The idea of having two characters meet and fight each other is a fanboys dream and it's one that's been happening in a films alot with even the likes of Batman Vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being a thing. Yet it is something that has it routes in horror as horror films where doing this kind of film on a regular basis in the forties and yet it's the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today that made it popular for the more modern audience and so then join me as I review the film that is the final time that Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger in a film with the film in question being called simply just "Freddy Vs. Jason" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Freddy resurrects Jason and gets him to kill kids on Elm Street it's this small group of friends that end up caught in the middle when Jason can't stop killing and Freddy has to take him on. 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 that bad. With this films plot not being the best plot that either franchise has had but given the fact that this is meant to be a dumb horror Vs. movie you do kind of expect that especially from both of these franchises that both franchises did have plots that were getting pretty bad at best. To be fair no one is going to be a film called Freddy Vs. Jason expecting the plot to be really good rather your going to it expecting to see the two characters fight each other and that's it therefor you do need to go into this film expecting the plot to be pretty bad this doesn't make it a good thing tho as there really was the potential here to have a really good plot that brought together both of the franchises in a fun and creative way and yet there really is no fun to be fun in this films plot which granted is to be expected but at the same time if your going to give the film the most basic of plots then why not go all out and make it a fun plot that honors both franchises with it feeling like that the films plot is borrowing more from A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors then it any of the Friday The 13th films which is great for the Freddy fans but not great if your a Jason fan and if your doing a Vs movie you need to have a plot that honors both worlds not just one over the other 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 Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger , Ken Kirzinger as Jason Voorhees and Monica Keena as Lori Campbell. Also starring in this film is Kelly Rowland as Kia Waterson , Jason Ritter as Will Rollins , Christopher George Marquette as Charlie Linderman , Lochlyn Munro as Deputy Scott Stubbs , Katharine Isabelle as Gibb Smith , Brendan Fletcher as Mark Davis , Zack Ward as Bobby Davis , Kyle Labine as Bill Freeburg , Chris Gauthier as Shack , David Kopp as Blake , Jesse Hutch as Trey Cooper , Tom Butler as Dr. Campbell , Garry Chalk as Sheriff Williams and Paula Shaw as Pamela Voorhees.

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 that bad. As the film does gave some decent acting in it from the likes of Robert Englund who is still pitch perfect as Freddy Krueger and Monia Keena who is passable in the film but where the acting does dip is with alot of the side characters as Kelly Rowland just isn't that good in the film and while Katharine Isabelle is a horror icon in her own right she's not in this film all that long to really make an impression and show off just what it is that she can do as an actor. With the best actor in the film being Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger with this being something that does make sense as he was the only actor carried over from the franchise with him also being someone who has played Freddy Krueger in every single film with him having a really good understanding of just who Freddy is which is something that really does help his performance in this film as he would know how Freddy would react in any given scene as he's been playing him since the original Nightmare On Elm Street with Robert even having his trademark and wit and charm which does help to make his performance as the character feel more well rounded as it would have been very easy for him to just play the hits and give us nothing more then that but you can tell that he is giving it his all in this film with his own charm really coming through in his performance. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bd as it gives none of this films characters 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 harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the CGI for this film is Cinesite , Pixel Magic , Digital Dimension Entertainment Group , Asylum VFX , Digiscope and Yannix Technology Corporation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The films CGI for the time that this film was made in is pretty decent as don't forget horror films in the early 2000's never had any kind of CGI in them and therefor for this film to have CGI in it in the first place is still a bug thing and while yes this films effects aren't that good. This is more due to when the film was made and the fact that it didn't have a huge effects budget and not due to the effects themselves being really bad with the only bad looking effect in the whole film being the CGI blood that disappears in Lori's first nightmare scene and that's basically it and even then that effect isn't that good due to the fact that there are other bigger effects that would have required more of the effects teams attention, when people today judge this film they are judging the effects by the standards that we have to today and that's not fair you have to judge the films effects for how they would have been back when the film was being made and taking that into account the films effects do some as being alot better with the effect on the Freddy Slug being something that does stand out due to the fact that they even added in a shadow for the creature which was something that they really didn't have to do with the thing that hold the effect back being the fact that it's shown in fully bright scenes whereas if it was shown in a more darker scene like the effect with Freddy's shadow then the effects team would have been able to hide alot of the more bad moments on that Freddy Slug effect. 

Whilst this film does take place sometime in between Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday and Jason X as at the end of Jason Goes To Hell we do see Freddy's hand come out and drag Jason's mask to hell. This film is mean to be set in it's own continuity one where the events of both films have happened as we see clips from all of the previous Nightmare films and Jason's mother does appear in the film with Jason even wearing his iconic mask with the only difference being the fact that now Springwood and Camp Crystal Lake are now just a few hours drive away from each other which in all fairness doesn't harm the continuity of both films that much but when you take into account that according to Freddy's Dead there was mean to be no more teenagers near Springwood which according to this film would have included Crystal Lake then it doesn't make sense for them to be as close to each other as they are in this film. This is something that the makers of this film should have payed close attention to as while they rightfully do want to try and respect the lore and legacy of both characters which it could be argued that they do end up doing they do end up ignoring the continuity of the films when it suits them as while Jason X isn't effected as that film is set in the far future both Freddy's Dead and to a lesser extent New Nightmare are effected by it as while New Nightmare is set in the real world Freddy in that movie knows that he's a character in this film the only real hints of that that we do get is when he breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience and that's it but when it comes to Freddy's Dead that's when the continuity gets messed up as even tho they show how he died in that film they openly say that it's been peaceful in Springwood for four years yet Freddy's Dead came out in and took place in the nineties therefor this is something that doesn't quite add up.

If one was to use wrestling terms on this film then Jason is made out to be the babyface and Freddy Krueger is the heel in what is for sure a heel vs heel fight. As the film does make Jason out to be the more sympathetic of the two despite the fact that he actually kills more people then Freddy in this film and even tho Freddy is the one that brought Jason back to life to kill all of these teens on Elm Street he is still rightfully made out to be the heel of the two despite the fact that Freddy actually take a more proactive role in helping to defeat Jason even helping the teens drug Jason at one point in the film and to be fair this kind of dynamic does work given both characters backstories as when Jason was killed he was just a n innocent little boy who hadn't done anything and was bullied for how he looked and that was it where as Freddy was easily the more evil one due to the fact that he was killing kids well before he was killed by there parents. However it would have made more sense for neither villain to be the babyface and for them both to be the heel as they have both killed alot of people prior to meeting each other and therefor they would of course be quite evil and this is something that would have been if the makers of this film had respected Jason's past and his legacy as much as they do Freddy and while yes i'm a Freddy fan and therefor of course I love the fact that they put alot more of the focus onto him and respected his legacy quite alot i'm also a small Friday The 13th fan and yet there was nothing in this film that showed the makers of this film respected the legacy of those films and those characters because if they did then both characters would have been made to be the heel with the only true babyface's being the teens as it should always be in a horror film.

Speaking of the teens in this film they aren't the best in either franchises long history but much like with the plot and the acting that is something that you kind of expect. As alot of the best characters in both franchises are in the early films and not in the latter ones with there not really being anything in this film that makes the teens in this film stand out and yet we are expected to route for them which doesn't end up happening as there boring The CW teen drama filled scenes aren't that much fun to watch with an yet if you look at the teen from both Nightmare On Elm Street 1 and Friday The 13th Part 2 for example those are characters that you wanted to get to know more about as the makers of those films yes they did just drop us of right in the middle of the action but they also gave us scenes that made us feel something for those characters and made us want t get to know them more and therefor we ended up caring more about them. Yet with with this film we don't have anything like that with the closest thing being the fact that we find out that Will and Lori used to date and that it's which is a great starting off point but all of there scenes together revolve around that one part of them and that makes alot of there scenes together boring to watch and its the same thing with all of the characters as none of them have anything interesting about them with the makers of this film not really giving us the chance to care for them therefor when Lori has her big defiant moment where she vows to see Freddy dead it doesn't mean anything because of the fact that we weren't given a reason to care for her character this is despite that fact that they moment and the moments where she blows up Camp Crystal Lake is a really cool moment in the film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty seven minuets and sixteen seconds. To be fair this is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for both of these franchises but at the same time tho this film that really could have been a about ten minuets longer as the film does rush from plot point plot point alot of the time with there being no room for the films plot to breathe with this being something that alot of the other films on both franchises would do as while yes they would take the time to have lots of kills but inbetween those moments the plots of of those films would be allowed to breathe to little thus allowing for tension to be built up all over again with this film having mor then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time. With this film not really using its running time all that wisely as the film as the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with this being due to the fact that the film is rushing towards either the next kill or to get to the end as the films pacing is that fast which does little for things to be added to the films plot plot that make it feel more well thought and developed like for example the film does start something with Jason being afraid of water which if you were just watching this film and nothing more would make sense but when you take the other Friday The 13th films into account alot of which do involved Jason killing someone near the lake that one little detail now makes no sense and it they there was time devoted to explaining that away then may be it could have worked but the makers of this film were more focused in making sure that they go as many nudge to previous Nightmare On Elm Street films as they could we ended up with a poorly developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as none of the films characters get any kind of development in this film with even a character like Nancy in the first Nightmare movie getting some small amount of character development as she does learn how to defend herself and becomes a more stronger character because of it yet here in this film none of it's characters can get that due to the fact that the makers of this film have to rush the film along but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a  slasher that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in tis very film well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt tat the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in tis very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the kills for the teens perhaps being the more weaker part of it as alot of there kills do happen of screen this is despite the fact that the film was given an American R rating and yet alot of there deaths barring only a very small handful are all of screen deaths with this being something that you never want to be the case in a slasher as you always want to see the kill happen on screen and when we do get an on screen kill it is an effective kill which does show you that the makers of this film do know how to give us a good kill. With the best kill in this film whole entire being the deaths of both Jason and Freddy as it is the main reason for anyone to go and watch this film and may god does the fight live up to the build as the fight basically happens in two stages the first of which is the Nightmare world where Freddy tortures and beats the heck out of Jason and yet the second half of the fight takes place in the real world with Freddy still getting the upper hand at times but now due to it being in the real world and not the nightmare world Jason is able to get a the upperhand with it only being when the fights reaches the lake that both character start getting more up close and personal with Freddy taking out Jason's eyes and fingers with his glove and Jason ripping Freddy's gloved with the whole thing coming to and end when a tired and near death Jason uses Freddy's arm against and Lori chops of Freddy's head with Jason's machete with alot of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this film does live up to it's name and gives you exactly what it promises Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees fighting each other the film is just so of the time as it's not that much fun of a film to watch due t the badly done teen characters and yet when the film does focus of either Freddy or Jason that's when you get to see just how much fun that this film really should have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well a all of the bad things that are in this every film in this very review and a such that really dos mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for were 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 for all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co . Ul , 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.

Friday The 13th Part III Film Review

The Friday The 13th franchise is one that has been in a lot of legal trouble over who owns what in recent years which is why we haven't seen a new movie in nearly TWENTY years yet there's a new show coming out this year. This something that's getting mentioned because of the fact that even tho the very next film after the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today the only thing that's actually came close to killing of Jason for good was lawyers and yet even tho he is still a popular character not alot of people know that it was the film that i'm going to talking you all about today where he got his iconic mask and so then join me as I review the film that sees Jason enter the third dimension with the film in question being called simply just "Friday the 13th Part III" enjoy.

The plot of this film is one day after the events of Part II Chris Higgins and her friends find themselves in the fight for there lives when they go to spend the weekend and Chris's parents cabin when they come up against Jason. 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 OK at best. With this films plot being about as basic set up for a Friday The 13th movie as you could ever get which is fine as these films aren't that well known for having different plots in them as when you boil all of the films down there just the same plot just reskinned every time and the same thing is true for this film as there's nothing that all that different about this films plot then the plot of Part 2 film for example but here in this film they do try to make things a bit different by having it be someone's cabin that there staying and not having the characters trying to open up a summer camp which yes is a small thing but it is a small thing that does show that the makers of this films are at the very least trying to come up with a different enough plot to justify making this film in the first place. To but it bluntly this films plot isn't as strong as say the plot of Part IV is even tho the setup is exactly he same as here it felt like that more effort was being put into the films 3D element then it was in making the films plot be as strong as it could have been as by all rights this is just the plot for a TV show episode that's been stretched out to feature length 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 Dana Kimmell as Chris Higgins , Paul Kratka as Rick Bombay and Tracie Savage as Debbie Klein. Also starring in this film is Jeffrey Rogers as Andy Beltrami , Catherine Parks as Vera Sanchez , Larry Zerner as Shelly , David Katims as Chuck Garth , Rachel Howard as Chili Jachson , Nick Savage as Ali , Gloria Charles as Fox , Kevin O'Brien as Loco , Cheri Maugans as Edna Hockett , Steve Susskind as Harold Hockett , Perla Walter as Mrs. Sanchez , David Wiley as Abel and Richard Brooker as Jason Voorhees.

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 pretty good. The fact that this films acting is as good as it is is a true miracle in it's own right as not only are alot of this films actors a bunch of unknown actors in the first right and therefor it wouldn't have been wise to expect good performances from them in this film but also it is a fairly well known fact that the makers of this film prioritized the 3D aspect of the film over anything else. This is why alot of the films acting does feel like the kind of acting that you would expect to see in the first take of a scene as more often then not they just didn't have time to do a take two with this being something that does effect the acting in this film as it does mean that the actors in this film just don't have a fair chance to turn in as good of a performance as thy might have been able to if they did more takes as alot of the time they do come off as being for lack of a better word here wooden. With the best actor in this film being Dana Kimmell as she does get more of a chance to show of just what it is that she can do as an actor and alot of the time she does manage to do things like being dramatic or being scared really well with those things making her performance more then worth while whilst also not being to distracting from any of the films kills with the acting that's in this very film really bein helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films 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 film.

Character wise whilst films like Part II or Part IV for example might have the more better Friday The 13th characters this films characters are just as iconic in there own right. As a good few of this films characters do feel like real people that have lived there lives prior to the start of the this film whereas with alot of other film you do get the impression that the characters haven't really done all that much prior to the start of the film that they are in with those films not going that much into the backstory of those characters yet here in this film we do get alot of backstory with the characters that does help to make them be all the more better. Like for example with Shelly we do find out that he does have confidence issues possibly from being bullied at somepoint in his life and therefor he does resort to playing these jokes on people that whilst there funny to him are downright disturbing to anyone else all due to the fact that he just wants to be liked by people and that's all and with Chris we do find out that the reason that she wants to go to her parents cabin is because two years prior she was attacked there with not being able to remember all that much of it with this being something that we do see effect her character as she does get more and more anxious the closer that she gets. However tho when it comes to new characters those are the two that do stand out the most with the only other person really being Debbie only because of the fact that she's pregnant which is an interesting thing to add to a character in a slasher film and yet we don't really see how that affects her character with all of the male characters apart from Shelly just sort of being there as they don't have anything interesting about them even the groups stoner couple are really only just there for bad comic relief and that's it. 

As not alot pf you will know this is actually the film where Jason gets to complete his iconic look by gaining his hockey mask. As he wasn't the killer in the first film and in the second film and for a good chink of this film he was a potato sack over his head with him oddly enough getting his iconic mask from Shelly which in turn makes Shelly a more iconic character due to that fact with Jason's mask in this film looking really good but at the same time tho given the fact that Jason was going more for a country farm boy type of look something which you can see in both this film and in the second film as well the mask does somewhat throw that look of quite and yet at the same time it is the look that he would be come more well known for. Therefor it would be understandable of people thought that he aways had this look before going into see this film with the mask itself being something that does look more better when Jason does change his whole look in Part 6 as then farm boy Jason is all gone and in his place is zombie Jason and therefor having the mask there does work really well whereas here it's not something that gels with the look that he was quite going for however at the same time tho it is hard to argue against it's staying power as the mask itself does add something to his look that is hard to describe as it does make you wonder just what he really does look like under the mask ever tho we do get to his face in this film. With the fact that he gets his mask from what the one character that alot of the other characters just straight up don't like being something that does make sense as of course Shelly would have a hocky mask as he is the one that is doing alot of horror jokes and seeing a killer take his mask and use it for actual evil is something that doe work really well in this film.

For those of you that don't know this film , the previous film and the following film all take place on the exact same weekend with the previous film taking place on Friday the 13th. This makes the following two films lie in there title as this film by fault of taking place the very next day takes place on Saturday the 14h and the following film takes place on Sunday the 15th while it is great that these films do form some of sort of trilogy with the events of the previous film being mentioned at some point in the next film it's the fact that the film alters what day they take place on that is slightly bothersome as these films not only pride themselves but also build themselves as taking place on any Friday the 13th and yet we now have two films in a row that go against that. It really wouldn't have been that hard just to have the films take place on another random Friday the 13th as that then would still be in keeping with the rest of the films and yet by going against that while they don't go against what the films originally stand for as these are afterall mindless slasher films it is something that will bother the fans of this franchise. With another thing that will bother the fans of this franchise being the fact that even the film was filmed and originally released in 3D the more commercially available copy is the one in 2D which therefor means that we do get alot of scenes where the characters are just pointing things into the camera in what would be a very unnatural way if they were done in the real world with this being due to the fact that the makers of this film went for the cheapest form of 3D by having things pop out of the screen and not the kind of 3D that amerces you in the world of the film as that is something that really would have justified the makers of this film putting more effort into the 3D effect then quite literally anything else in the film.

It's safe to assume that the original twist ending for Friday The 13th is a great way to end the film and therefor them paying homage to it in this film is something that does make sense. However they do it in a way that does break the continuity of the films as we know thanks to seeing it happen in the first film that Jason's mother gets her head cut off at the end of that film something which we do see at the start of the next film and at the start of this film when we see a small recap of what happened at the end of the last film and yet at the end of this film they have Chris dream about herself being dragged under the water by a very much still alive and still with her head Pamala Voorhees. This is something that should not happen as while yes you could argue that having Pamala say that Jason is dead at the end of the first film only to have him pop up again at the end of that film is also something that does mess with the continuity it could also be argued that as we never saw Jason drown at the start of that film he could have therefor have still been alive at the end of that film which and that Pamala was just insane and very good at hiding it which is something that would make alot of sense this is something that does fall apart when you take Jason's age into account but the bottom line is we never saw him drown at the start of that first film. Whereas we did see Pamala loose her head at the end of that first film therefor seeing her pop back up alive ad well at the end of this film even if it is in a dream sequence is something that doesn't work as we the audience know full well that she's dead. You could make the argument that as Chris was quite clearly going off the deep end by the end of the film that her imagining things that shouldn't be real is something that does work but then you also have to ask yourself how doe she know what his mother wore as that information was shown on screen.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty five minuets and thirteen seconds. With this being pretty much the bogstandard for these Friday The 13th films as they all do have very little plot to them and therefor don't really need a longer running time with this film like alot of the other Friday The 13th films having the right amount of plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place which is something that does make sense as this film doesn't have a deep thought provoking plot and it therefor doesn't need to have a longer running time in order to tell it's story it just needs to a quick and breezy running time to tell it's story and that's really it. Which to be fair is something that this films does do really well with the film not wasting time in getting to the kills however tho the film still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time fully develop it's plot granted this is something that will always be an issue with any of the Friday The 13th films and therefor you do have to move past it however tho given the fact that this film was the only one that was shot in 3D and did give Jason his iconic look you do expect there yo be a more well thought out plot something which we do get hints of with Chris's backstory however that adds nothing to the plot of the film and is very quickly forgotten about each time that it's brought up with this being in favor for the film shoving more awkward 3D effects in your face then telling a more well thought out plot. This is something that's also true for alot of the films characters as none of them get any kind of character development and while this is understandable for someone like Jason as he is a silent killer it is something that doesn't make sense for any of the films other characters as we know just as much about all of them coming out of the film then we did coming into the film when the film could afford to send a few minuets on giving us some really kind of character development no matter how big or small it really ends up being 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 film that really does 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 not that bad. To be fair to this film the film really does get to shine in it's kills as it 's where the makers of this film do get to give us kills that only pay homage to some of the kills in the first film but also get to show us some really creative and fun kills and while not all of them work this is more due to the fact that the film doesn't give us a reason to care for alot of the characters before they are killed of and not the actual kill itself. With the best kill in the whole entire film being a tie between Chili's and Debbie's but both for completely different reasons as for example with Chili's kill we do get alot of build up before the kill happens first with the wind knocking out the power and then blowing open several doors and windows which is a good way to create tension but then the character ruins by doing the best worst fake run in your life before then getting stabbed with a fire poker which is a hugely entertaining scene but with Debbie's scene whilst it is a straight up carbon copy of kill from the first film it is something that does still work as again the makers of the film do create alot of tension before the scene with the death of her boyfriend Andy which does mean that we the audience know full well that Jason is in the house we just don't know where and therefor when he does stab her in the neck through the hammock it is a genuinely shocking scene to see with the rest of the films kills being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while the next film had the gimmick of being the "final" Friday The 13th movie and this film had the gimmick of being in 3D it's the next film that is the better of the two of the films just because of the fact that is has that famous Crispin Glover dance this is despite the fact that this film does have alot of really good kills in it 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 6 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 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.

Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Film Review

 

There are so many horror icons out their and out all of them only two have tried to kill people in New York City. Out of those two only one of them has succeed and well I thought that i'd check out the film that failed to take over New York just because not only is this the latest film n the Friday The 13th franchise for me to take to look at anyway but it's also one that is rather infamous and so then join me as I review the film that is the last Friday The 13th film to be produced by Paramount Pictures until the 2009 remake with the film in question being called simply just "Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" enjoy.

The plot of this film is a cruise ship full of teenagers heads to New York while on board tho Jason Voorhees trys to make sure that they never make it to New York City. 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 pretty bad with this films being nothing more then a stock slasher plot and nothing really more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees , Jensen Daggett as Rennie and Scott Reeves as Sean Robertson. Also starring in this film is Barbara Bingham as Colleen Van Deusen , Peter Mark Richman as Charles McCulloch , V. C. Dupree as Julius Gaw , Martin Cummins as Wayne Webber , Gordon Currie as Miles Wolfe , Kelly Hu as Eva Watanabe , Sharlene Martin as Tamara Mason , Dragon Ball Z star Saffron Henderson as J.J. , Alex Diakun as The Deck Hand and Warren Munson as Admiral Robertson.

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 that bad with this films acting being alot better then what it really had any right to be. However what lets the acting down is the fact that this films script just isn't that good which means that this films cast just can't turn in that good of a performance as this films script just simply won't allow for it as that's just how ad this films script is.

There were several ideas for this film during it's early days with scripts being written by Lar Park Lincoln and her husband with her script seeing her character Tina helping out in a mental hospital for young girls. The other was by her Friday The 13th Part VIII: The New Blood co-star Kevin Spirtas which would have been a remake of The New Blood except with his character from that film as the killer with the original version being nothing more then a dream there was also a part 8 being developed by The New Blood's director John Carl Buechler which would have seen the character of Tina escape a mental hospital before facing of against Jason Voorhees one last time.

For a film that meant to take place mostly in New York alot of those scenes was filmed in Vancouver as such the title now makes no sense. Granted we d get a few shots of Jason that was actually filmed in New York but alot of the time the only locations that we see are locations that could be anywhere as all they are is a dock yard and an alley way neither of which scream New York city granted Paramount did sign of on the script which makes me wonder why they didn't give the film a big enough budget to actually film in New York as the very idea of having Jason Voorhees stalking teenagers around New York City is a good idea.

If this film feels like two different films stitched together that's because that's exactly what it is as Paramount agreed to two different films scripts one which set upon a cruise ship and the other being set in New York City. With this films writer and director Rob Hedden writing both scripts and so he stuck the cruise ship script to the front of the New York City script and as a result of that this film does feel like it's two different films as the first half of the film feels like a claustrophobic sea movie whereas the second one feels alot more like a more goofier Friday The 13th movie with Jason even making jokes all of which clash with the more serious tone look and feel with the first half of the film which itself contrasts with the really alot more lighthearted and really goofy tone and feel of the second half of this film.

I think that we can all agree that the Charles McCulloch is just a terrible character which is really saying something as alot of this films victims just aren't that interesting. Even our main final girl character just comes across as being bland and annoying with her having nothing that makes her stand out or come across as being likable but what makes Charles McCulloch a terrible character tho is the fact that he pretty much mentally abuses Rennie into getting what he wants and he openly leaves several students and colleague to die and is openly willing to kill an innocent person when he doesn't believe that Jason has comeback to life which is something that also doesn't make a whole lot of sense as these characters are meant to be from Crystal Lake and so they would no that Jason comes back to life quite often.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty minuets and twenty seven seconds. Which is a solid running time for this film to have as it doesn't have that much of a plot to begin with which means that the films plot is already being stretched pretty thin but at the same time tho when this film gets going you really don't notice it especially when the group finally arrive in New York City but the issue there is that the film takes well over an hour to get to New York with the vast majority of the film being spent on this slow moving boat but I will admit that this film does have some really solid pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a slasher film that means 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 were in all honesty not that bad. As this film does have some really solid and pretty enjoyable kills in it the issue is tho is that alot of this films kills happen just off screen and so don't really get to see the kills in this film alot of the time and alot of the ones that we do get to see are pretty lame for the most part in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall I can quite easily see why this film is considered to be one of the worst films in the Friday The 13th franchise as this film is pretty bad and is a sign that this franchise should have ended with this 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 means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 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 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 Image actually has images from this film up 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.

13 Fanboy Film Review

 

Horror fans there are very few iconic franchises as that as both the Friday The 13th and the Halloween film franchises. With both of these franchises going on for so long that it's a wonder that they didn't produce a cross over film well now somebody had kind of crossed these two film franchises over and so join me as I review the film that is every single Friday The 13th and halloween fans dream with the film in question being  freaking called simply just "13 Fanboy" enjoy.

The plot of this film is someone is killing of actors and actresses that have either been in or are associated with the Friday 13th franchise or it's actors in some way shape or form and so it's up to Kelsie Voorhees the grand daughter of Deborah Voorhees to find out who the killer is before it's far to freaking late. Now then in terms of what I thought / felt of / about the plot of this very film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the plot of / about this very film was at best rather freaking week in my opinion anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is this film's director , co-writer , co-editor and co-producer Deborah Voorhees as herself. Also starring in this film is Dee Wallace as herself , Hayley Greenbauer as Kelsie Voorhees , C.J. Graham as himself , Kane Hodder as himself , Judie Aronson as herself , Lar Park Lincoln as herself , Tracie Savage as herself , Ron Sloan as himself , Jennifer Banko as herself and Corey Feldman as Mike Merryman.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty alot better then what it really had any freaking right to be. Since alot of these actors and actress that are appearing in / starring in this film haven't acted in anything in years and so nobody would have blamed them if there performances were a little bit wooden in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.

Now then even tho this film is mainly focused on the Friday The 13th franchise this film still featured Dee Wallace who of course starred in the 2007 Halloween remake film. Which doesn't really work out that well for me personally since this film is designed to be a love letter to the fans of Friday The 13th and so having an actress from a competing franchise appear in your film goes against that message in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then is film is kind of a passion project for all of those involved with making this film since everybody who is involved with making this film has a love for the Friday The 13th film and multimedia franchise. As such you can feel the love and the passion that went into making this film as it really does shine through in every single frame of this freaking film in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.

However sadly tho that passion doesn't necessarily translate to a good film since this is film is pretty freaking bad. This is simply because the makers of this film are trying to far to hard to make this film feel more like a Scream film instead of it being it's own unique thing since there alot of elements that were made popular by the Scream films that appear in this film and it's those exact same elements that really did harm this film overall in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Now then I have to give the makers of this film credit for even getting this film freaking made in the first freaking place. Since this film was made without any big studio help and so the current rights holders for the Friday The 13th franchise had nothing to do with this film but that doesn't excuse the fact that this film does have some pretty editing and writing which could very well be chalked up to the fact Deborah Voorhees is writing and also editing this movie among many other things and this film is one of the many films that i'd use as a good example for a new director not to start editing a movie because it's entirely different ball game that requires an entirely different set of skills in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then since this film is a slasher film after all that means that I do infact have to actually talk about the the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film and well in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film are indeed really freaking good indeed especially given this films rather small budget. Heck this film also has some pretty decent gore for it's incredibly rather small budget which was something that I wasn't even expecting to be the case but it's something that I was in all honesty rather surprised by in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Overall this film was a decent love letter to 80's slasher films to the Friday The 13th film and multimedia film franchise but at the same time just because your a love letter to something doesn't always mean that your a good film in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this film in this very review and as such that means that this film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 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 the official Friday The 13th fandom wiki page , the official Halloween fandom wiki page 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 up on Google Images and pus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and yes this film is out now On Demand and you can watch this film right freaking now if you guys really freaking wanted to that is and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always do with our ne and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

Friday The 13th: A New Beginning Film Review

 

Friday fans it's been at the very least several or seven months since I last spoke about a Friday The 13th movie and well I thought that it was about time that I reviewed another movie in the Friday The 13th film and multi-media franchise. As such i've chosen a film that was very recently covered by Dead Meat and so join me as I review the film that got slaughtered by the censors with the film in question being called simply just "Friday The 13th: A New Beginning" enjoy.

The plot of this film is several years after he last faced Jason Voorhees a now teenaged Tommy Jarvis finds himself in a mental home and while he's there people start getting killed by a very familiar looking killer and Tommy has to find who is killing these people and put astop to this massacre once and for all or even before it's to late. Now then in all honesty I really did find the plot of this film to be rather enjoyable since even tho it does indeed stick to the Friday The 13th formular quite a bit it also dares to try something new with the Friday The 13th formular in my opinion anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is John Sheperd as Tommy Jarvis , Corey Feldman as Young Tommy Jarvis and Melanie Kinnaman as Pam Roberts. Also starring in this film is Shavar Ross as Reggie Winter , Richard Young as Dr. Matthew Letter , Marco St. John as Sheriff Cal Tucker , Juliette Cummins as Robin Brown , Carol Locatell as Ethel Hubbard , Vernon Washington as George Winter , John Robert Dixon as Eddie Kelso  , Jerry Pavlon as Jake Patterson , Caskey Swaim as Duke Johnson , Mark Venturini as Vic Faden , Anthony Barrile as Vinnie Manalo , Dominick Brascia as Joey Burns , Tiffany Helm as Violet Moraine , Richard Lineback as Deputy Dodd , Suzanne Bateman as Nurse Yates , Bob DeSimone as Billy Macauley , Jere Fields as Anita Robb , Ric Mancini as Mayor Cobb , Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Demon Winter , Corey Parker as Pete Linley , Rebecca Wood as Lana Ardsley , Ron Sloan as Junior Hubbard , Debi Sue Voorhees as Tina McCarthy and Dick Wieand as Roy Burns.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I all honesty thought / felt that the actual acting that's featured / presented to us in this very film was decent at best. This is simply because the director of this film just allowed his actors and actresses to do whatever the heck that they wanted to do which results in a lot of very mixed performances in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then this film has a very freaking similar ending to that of Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers in that by the end of both films the person who was the protagonist of there respective film is now set up to be the antagonist of the franchise moving forward. However just like with Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers this film ditches it's twist ending in the very next film due to negative fan feedback which is a shame because having Tommy Jarvis is the main killer of the franchise is a fairly good idea in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then I think that this is something that anyone who has seen this movie can very easily agree but Ethel Hubbard (Carol Locatell) is very easily the best character in the whole damn movie in my opinion anyways / at least. Since this character just doesn't take any kind of s*it from anybody and this character just such an entertaining character to watch and heck she very easily makes this movie all the more enjoyable in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then this film was the last film ever directed by this films director and co-writer Danny Steinmann. Who like I said earlier in this very review allowed his actors and actresses to do whatever the heck that they wanted to do with there performances and heck in keeping with the tradition of the Friday the 13th films at the time he also allowed drugs to be used on his set while the movie was being made which honestly explains why he let his actors and actresses do whatever the heck that they wanted to do with there performances in my opinion anyways / at least.

So now then when it comes the victim characters in the Friday The 13th films the victim usually aren't that good or even memorable in my opinion anyways. However that does infact change with this film since the victim characters are honestly alot more rounded and some of them are indeed alot more memorable then the victim characters in the other Friday The 13th films and this is because of the fact that the actors were allowed to do whatever they wanted with there characters performances even tho that very fact does infact hurt the actual actors and actresses performances in my opinion anyways / at least.

So now then this very film has / had an exact running time of exactly one hour and thirty two minuets and seventeen seconds and which in my opinion anyways / at least is the perfect running time for this film. This is simply because this film doesn't really have enough there in terms of either plot or story and so it would be foolish to even attempt to make this film be anywhere close or even anywhere even near to two hours in my opinion anyways / at least.  

Now then since / because this film is a slasher film after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are featured / presented to us in this very film and well in my opinion anyways / at least the kills that are featured / presented to us in this very film just aren't good and well alot of this comes down to the fact that. All of the kills that we see in this film were either cut down , removed or changed and so the kills can't be as good as they possibly could be because the censors just won't let them be as good as they possibly could be which is a shame because when we do indeed get a decent kill in this film it really a nice and good kill in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really entertaining film and it's one that I highly recommend fans or even none fans of the horror genre watch just simply due to how entertaining that this film and plus Miguel A. Núñez Jr. is just simply awesome to watch in this film in my opinion anyways / at least however tho please note that this film isn't anywhere even close to being a perfect film tho it's just an entertaining film and nothing more then that. Now since i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this film in this very review that means that this film gets a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I 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 the official Halloween fandom wiki page , the official Friday The 13th fandom wiki page 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 up on Google Images and pus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always do with our ne and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.