Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to POLL

i have not explored further bc even trash connoisseurs have described the later installments as worthless and miserable

one thing i greatly dislike about hellraiser 3 is that pinhead is explicitly rewritten as a villain, and the one of the things i liked most about the first two movies is that the cenobytes are just kinda unwitting servants of the ultra hardcore s&m club that is hell, and that there are living people who are much worse and more sadistic than them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGWz5psncCI

hellraiser 3 has the dj cenobyte with a cd bisecting his head

ok thats incredibly hilarious, never heard about that, might actually be on my watchlist now

like 15 years ago at a fest i remember seeing a short doc about the child actor who played jason in f13 part 1, all grown up somewhere in the midwest, fronting a klezmer band playing synagogues & bar mitzvahs by day, doing a jason-themed metal band by night, and trying to impress people in bars by asking them if they'd ever seen Friday the 13th. very funny in a post-American Movie way.

Oh there's also a Cenobite in III with a camera in his face. It's like Pinhead transformed the staff of an HH Gregg.

The other thing I'm trudging through right now is the documentary Crystal Lake Memories, which chronicles the making of the F13 movies in oral history format. I am at hour two and they are pretty much in the beginning of discussion for Part IV and there are FOUR HOURS LEFT.

It's got (for example) the child actor who played Jason in the first one and tons of other actors and production people. Corey Feldman shows up, but Kevin Bacon doesn't.

crystal lake memories and never sleep again are the best documentaries ever i find them so gripping lol

I am pretty certain I've seen all of Crystal Lake Memories yet I remember literally nothing about it.

xpost Yes, I could blow an entire day watching them back-to-back. If anything, they're TOO short!

And I love that Crystal Lake Memories was thoughtful enough to include my beloved Friday the 13th: The Series (which I just finally finished watching and am about to start all over again).

Oh, that's what's missing from the poll and what I would've voted for. Who cares if it has nothing to do with Jason. It has big-haired bad-acting '80s Canadian goddess ROBEY, for god's sake.

i tried Jason X and I just couldn't. something about horror films and bro comedies from the early 2000s has always rubbed me the wrong way, so once they all got on the spaceship and started fucking each other.

the kill where he froze the girl's face and smashed it was cool though!

*and started fucking each other I just got really annoyed, like I know that's the F13 formula but these were scientists in space acting really dumb and shirking their responsibilities for a little sexy time.

i feel you to a degree, but no movie has funnier dialogue than jason x, cf. "what's a bike?"

"hockey mask"?

"it was a sport before it was outlawed in 2024"

OH BOY NO MORE HOCKEY SOON

all this crazy shit happened and yet gender relations have not progressed at all since the late '90s, i love it

rewatched Part II. liked it better - it has long dull spots but they play with pacing better, and Jason actually being a child-like hillbilly wearing JC Penney's finest Paul Bunyan attire actually works pretty well.

guessing they thought it felt too much like Leatherface and then Incredible Hulk shows up in later films

beginning of 3 starts with news reporter talking about the most heinous crime in local history...you mean besides the other three incidents?

lol I love figuring out which scenes were obviously shot with 3-D in mind in the third one.

baseball bat... juggling... eye-popping out of a guy's skull

they never really did 3d better

I believe I've referred to it in the past as Handles!: The 3-D Experience.

Like there's a point in Muppetvison 3-D where Fozzie whacks a paddleball at the camera as a gag re: the super obvious 3-D tricks they intend to avoid. F13 III is that gag repeated for 90 minutes. Gloriously stupid.

The eyeball squeezed from the socket really is the high point of the series.

David? David? David? David? David? pic.twitter.com/O21MNNdRwn

— Jay Bauman (@JayBauman1) October 16, 2020

Think I'm going to go see Part VI tonight

Love Part VI. Perhaps the least boring/most (intentionally) funny of the bunch.

Cool. I've only ever seen the first one, but I'm going to assume that these do not need to be watched in order.

Heh, these movies do not need to be watched, period. But VI, as I saw someone put it, is at least a real movie.

vi: jason lives
vii: the new blood
ii
tie: jason takes manhattan / jason x (basically the same movie, boat vs. space)
iv: the final chapter
v: a new beginning
i
iii
jason goes to hell
reboot

weird that they all changed lol

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, April 23, 2019 3:28 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is time to revise my rankings:

7: the new blood
2
6: jason lives
x
takes manhattan
1
4
3
5
reboot

not ranked at all, just floating in off in its own deranged universe:
jason goes to hell

Is that worst-to-best or best-to-worst? I honestly can't tell, lol.

I do know the meta opening of reboot was pretty clever, as was the meta opening of "My Bloody Valentine" reboot.

Jason Goes to Hell is the rare horror movie I turned off back when I was a dumb teen, and again when I was an even dumber adult trying to give it a second chance

Fun fact: that is the only one I've ever seen in theaters. It was pretty shitty.

it's best to worst, obv!!!! i do need to rewatch the reboot, it's been a few years, i do remember the first twenty minutes completely ruling xxp

i love them all like they are my children though, even 5 which has the home for mentally-troubled teenagers (located just a few miles from the two most annoying hillbilly caricatures ever), one of the most fucked up landscapes in the whole series and in any slasher movie

lol, VI was so much fun. Great crowd at this screening. The deputy's "Megan..." "MEGAN!" got the best laughs.

5's kinda my favorite for how sleazy and gross it is. It's of a piece with Danny Steinmann's other works, The Unseen and Savage Streets, for sure. Some kind of minor auteur of unpleasantness and tonal whiplash.

Rata-tata-tata-tata-touie!

This whole scene is so funny. Like a parody of a clever escape scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evg2Xl-tlo4

In a movie world populated mostly with morons, it doesn't take much to be the smart one.

*half the county has been brutally murdered*

Sheriff: I can't believe Tommy Jarvis would do this.