April Cathleen Cornelius:In 1957 a boy drowns in Camp Crystal Lake; the following year two counselors are brutally murdered while making out in a barn Flash forward to 1980. The camp is being reopened and the counselors who are setting up are being murdered by an unseen killer. The first in the series and one of my absolute favorites. A true classic
Starring : Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King, Kristen Baker, Stuart Charno, Marta Kober, Tom McBride, Bill Randolph, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Russell Todd
Director : Steve Miner, Sean S. Cunningham (Additional scenes)
April Cathleen Cornelius:Five years after the murders at Camp Crystal Lake things are quiet until a counselor training center opens on the same lake. Jason Voorhees the boy who drowned in 1957 never really drowned and is avenging his mother's decapitation with kills pulled directly from Mario Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve (A Bay of Blood) Must see
April Cathleen Cornelius:Set the same weekend as F13pt2, part III has Jason mutate from a guy in overalls with a hood to a hulking muscular deformed monster. This is where he dons his famous hockey mask. A group of college students are spending the weekend at Chris's vacation. She hasnt been there since she was traumatized by Jason attacking her (though the reason was never clear-he didnt kill her and he wasnt a rapist) The body count is seven kids and three bikers who come to raise hell. Pretty good
April Cathleen Cornelius:I was very disappointed with this remake. The problem with remaking the classic eighties slasher films is that they were very simple stories; the remakes try to flesh them out and for me, most of the time they dont work (exceptions being "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") I just wasn't impressed with it.
April Cathleen Cornelius:Tommy Jarvis and a friend go to the cemetery to destroy Jason's corpse thus freeing Tommy of the endless nightmare accidentally reanimate his corpse. He heads back to Crystal Lake now called Forest Green where he proceeds to kill pretty much everyone. This one was really fun with some awesome music too "Teenage Frankenstein" and "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" both by Alice Cooper.
April Cathleen Cornelius:Jason has pretty much been everywhere now they've sent him 500 years into the future in space. A salvage mission to the now uninhabitable Earth finds a cryo-lab with two bodies in it and bring it aboard their ship. Both are revived and it turns out one is Jason Voorhees. Very bad for the crew. Some interesting moments
April Cathleen Cornelius:Jason boards a cruise ship bound for Manhattan in the eighth installment where he slashes and dashes the majority of the class of 89. He ends up in Manhattan where he is destroyed by nuclear waste. Fascinatng
April Cathleen Cornelius:The seventh movie was originally intended to be Freddy vs Jason but it couldnt be worked out so they settled for giving the "final girl" telekinesis. Pretty good concept
April Cathleen Cornelius:Opening with the best montage ever, F13 TFC begins with the cleanup of the massacre from part 3. Jason's body is taken to the morgue where a late night makeout session revives him . He escapes after killing the two morgue attendants and heads back to Crystal Lake. He sets his murderous sites on the Jarvis family and the house next door rented by drunken college kids.Corey Feldman was amazing as Tommy Jarvis who was kind of an homage to Tom Savini. The original screenplay was to have Tommy shove a homemade microwave rheostat into Jason's skull cooking from the inside until it explodes; since they wanted to leave it open they went with the machete. The character Tommy Jarvis would appear in two more films. I really enjoyed this one You will too
April Cathleen Cornelius:Five years after he is traumatized by the brutal self defense killing of Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis is being transferred to a halfway house where one client ax murders another. Tommy has flashes where he sees Jason but when the killings start, who is responsible? Many didn't like this one because it was Jasonless (much like the last episode of TWD without Daryl Dixon) it wasnt satifying. I liked it though.
