They're Watching (2016)

They're Watching (2016)

Actors:

Mia Faith, Kris Lemche & David Alpay

Directors:

Jay Lender & Micah Wright

Runtime:

1 hr 34 minutes

Plot:

When an American home improvement TV show visits a remote Eastern European village, the young crew thinks the lack of mocha lattés and free wifi will be the worst of their problems. But after their filming interrupts the superstitious villagers' private religious ritual, the situation takes a turn for the homicidal... and when the blood starts flowing, that's when things get really weird. With THEY'RE WATCHING, noted graphic novelists and animators Micah Wright and Jay Lender turn a classic horror premise upside down to create a fresh, funny, eye-popping twist on the genre.

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*Warning: May contain Spoilers*

This film starts off as the tv crew filming an episode of a international house hunter type show. After the woman buys a home in a small European village, the film crew goes back 6 months later to film the renovated house. The town's people slowly start to creep them out, as well as watch them. They hear about a woman in town, 100 years before, thought to be a witch and was burned alive. Needless to say the town's people believe that history is repeating itself.

This movie is filmed in a POV format. The actors,  mostly a young cast, weren't bad as all. This film is worth the watch, as long as you don't take it seriously and set your mind to just enjoy.

Black Sunday (1960)

Black Sunday (1960)

Actors:

Barbara Steele, John Richardson & Andrea Checci

Director:

Mario Bava

Runtime:

87 minutes

Plot:

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's look a like descendant.

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Review:

This movie came highly recommended by a lot of people. This is a classic atmospheric film that made Barbara Steele a Horror Scarlet. Director Mario Bava's finest work as well as his first credited work launching his career. The original title was "The Mask of Satan." Everything about this movie was incredible from the set designs and wardrobe to the lighting. 

This is a MUST SEE for horror fans and is one of the best made horror films to date.

Would You Rather (2012)

Would You Rather (2012)

Actors:

Jeffrey Combs, Brittany Snow & June Squibb

Director:

David Guy Levy

Runtime:

1 hr 33 minutes

Plot:

Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would you rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat (played by Jeffrey Combs).

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Review:

By now we are all familiar with the game "would you rather." This film takes it to a whole new sick and demented level. It's rather fun to watch, in a horror kinda way. Some scenes are not for the weak at heart, they can be a tad hard to watch for non-horror fans. 

Jeffrey Combs plays the demented character, yet again like no one else can. Giving a phenomenal performance. The writer, Steffen Schachenhauten, must have had a great time coming up with the either/or's. 

Highly recommend this film to all.

Friday the 13th (2009 Reboot )

Friday the 13th  (2009 Reboot )  

Actors:

Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Derek Mears

Director:

 Marcus Nispel

Runtime:
1 hr 37 minutes

Plot:

A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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Review:

This version tells more of the back store of Jason, his mother and even his hockey mask than the original first 3 movies put together. if you read the critic's reviews of this reboot (not actual movie goers) you will see most of them hated it because it was just another "Slasher" film. HELLO it is Friday the 13th, the definition of slasher movies.

With that being said this was one of the many reboots of Horror movies past. Marcus Nispel, director, did a fantastic job retelling Jason's story.  Yes there's a lot of eye candy for both men and women to enjoy in this. Blood, gore everything you need in a horror.

This version whether or not you have seen the original will not disappoint you. The actors can act & special effects are pretty awesome, all in all a great reboot.

Jason X (2001)

Jason X (2001)

 

Actors:

Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Jeff Geddis

Director:

 James Isaac

Runtime:

 1 hr 31 minutes

Plot:

 Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century. 

Review:

Jason meets SciFi?? The government captures Jason and finds out they cannot kill him, so they cryogenically freeze him. A few hundred years later, scientists find his body along with another female and decide let's defrost them, on a ship in outer space.  Jason starts his killing spree. At one point,  Nanites come into play, yes nanites. 

The effects in this are second rate at best and the plot is weak. This is Jason killing in space with no real plot or storyline. And yet this somehow it is still better than Jason takes Manhattan.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Actors:

Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott

Director:

Rob Hedden

Runtime:

1 hr 40 minutes

Plot:

A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason Voorhees along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask.  

Review:

If you watch this franchise for the horror, this movie is not for you. But however it you like to watch it for the humor, this is the one for you. While Freddy and Michael can easily blend into the cityscape, Jason is meant for stalking in the woods not the sidewalks. This is the least horror of all the franchise. I don't recommend this film for a horror watch.

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

Actors:
Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen

Director:

Tom McLoughlin

Runtime:

1 hr 26 minutes

Plot:
Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him. 

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 Review:  Warning Spoilers!

Tommy (all grown up) just has to make sure Jason is dead on a dark, stormy night, (Jason meets Frankenstein so to speak) and accidently brings him back from the dead with lightening. Did I meantion that Jason has decayed a bit in his coffin? From there the slaughter begins.

Director Tom McLoughlin brung this series back to life after the failure of the part five film. Jason comes back as  unkillable and grosser than ever. As well as going back to the original story line of killing campp counselors. With good effects this makes a good watch and has the best soundtrack of the franchise.

Top 10 Friday the 13th Deaths

Top 10 Friday the 13th Deaths

Normally, I would list these in order of what I thought was their order. This time while I can decide that these are the top 10 of the complete franchise, I have great difficulty picking the order.  So I will list the top 9 in no specific order and at the end list my first and second places.

WARNING! (ADULT CONTENT)

Pamela Voorhees- Friday the 13th (1980)

Eddie -  A New Beginning (1985)

Trey - Freddy vs Jason (2003)

Deborah - Jason Goes to Hell  (1993)

Adrienne - Jason X  ( 2001)

Doug - The Final Chapter (1984)

Amanda - Friday the 13th (2009)

Jason Voorhees - The Final Chapter (1984)

2. Jason Voorhees -(Friday the 13th (2009)

 

1. Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger - Freddy vs Jason ( 2003)

 

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter  (1984)

Actors:

Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson, Peter Barton

Director:

Joseph Zito

Runtime:

1hr 31 minutes

Plot:

 After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.

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Review:

 Does Jason Finally meet his match in Little Tommy Jarvis?  This is one of my favorites in the franchise, still a bit campy but a tad step up from the first 3, with a different kind of hero in the end.  Jason is resurrected from his brief stint in the morgue. The gore and blood are turned up for this installment. Special effects are top notch (for its day) done by Tom Savini. The body count reaches a new high and the nudity and sex are on their way up as well. 

If you only see one sequal, The Final Chapter is the one to watch.

Friday the 13th part 2 (1981)

Friday the 13th part 2   (1981)

Actors:

Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey

Director:

Steve Miner

Runtime:

1hr 27 minutes

Plot:

 Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason, who did not really drown in the lake some 30 years before? 

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In this film, Jason takes over where Mommy left off, killing everyone that gets in his way. This time it's a camp counselor training center on Crystal Lake. We even get to see the town crazy again. Jason, all grown up, wears a sack over his head, as he has yet to get his mask. And one of the few times in the series you actually see Jason's face.

This is a slasher film through and through that turned Jason into an horror icon.

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friday the 13th (1980)

Actors:

 Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King & Jeannine Taylor

Director:

Sean S. Cunningham

 Runtine:

1 hr 35 minutes

Plot:
A group of camp counselors is stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning. 

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 This movie sets up the basis for the rest of the series, especially "Freddy vs Jason."

The music is iconic almost everyone knows it or has heard it as one time or another. Most of the kill shots are in the first person camera mode, making sure you don't really know who's killing until toward the end of the movie. The acting isn't bad, but the town crazy might have been a bit over the top. 

Keep in mind that Friday the 13th was a low-budget film. The movie spawned 11 movies including a reboot, which mean Jason's legacy will continue to live in the hearts of horror fans.Paying attention to the details is what I do. that being said, why is there a deadbolt on the inside of the pantry other than giving a character a place to hide?

If you have seen the reboot and not the original, SHAME on you! lol

 

The Veil (2016)

The Veil (2016)

Actors: 

Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane & Lily Rabe

Director:

Phil Joanou

Run time:

1 hour 33 minutes

Plot:

The lone survivor of a mass suicide revisits the scene 25 years later with a documentory film crew, Awakening dark memories and mysterious phennomena. 

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Review:

This straight to streaming release movie is somewhat based on Jim Jones and what could have happened then and 25 years later. On Netflix this only had two stars, I was pleasantly suprised with this psychological horror. Special effects are rather good & the plot is above average. This is a well made, well thought out film.