Terry Kiser was Dr Crews in #7. A real "That Guy" actor. He was good as a corpse in the two Weekend at Bernie's films but i think i first saw him as a comedian named "Vic Hitler" iirc on WKRP.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
The cutaway to a kid reading no exit before bed was a good cheap lol I was not expecting, also “what were you gonna be when you grew up?”
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:03 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
two of my favorite moments in the whole series
vi is just an embarrassment of awesome scenes. hard rock summer in the usa
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
The humour in these films is usually excruciating to me so I maybe overrate it when it lands
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
also something i noticed recently: the only friday movies with zero nudity are i and vi
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
Interesting! That's like learning that "The Godfather" supposedly has no profanity (I haven't seen it for a while).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:07 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark
vic hitler is from hill street blues
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
yeah that's right, he was someone else on WKRP. Also had a recurring role early during Night Court's run.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:13 PM bookmarkflaglink
Woltz says "son of a bitch"
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
I've seen these shitty movies so many times over the years, in various forms and formats, and only noticed something nuts: Jason's mom goes crazy because he died unsupervised at the camp as a kid in the late '50s. So how did Jason become a full grown adult by the second movie?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
no one knows
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
well, also, he's a full grown adult because these movies take place in the '80s. my theory is that he didn't die and lived in the woods for 20 years, either unbeknownst to his mom or beknownst to his mom but she was still driven by the delusion that he died. this idea is sorta ventured in friday part 2
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Isn’t it suggested he didn’t drown and survived as a feral youth in the woods or something?
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Xp yeah that I think
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
I think he's actually just a very large child.
― Eldridge Borgnine (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
So really ... his mom was the negligent one.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
xpost Like Blaster in Thunderdome?
So the deformed Jason pulling her under is assumed to be a hallucination?
Granted that makes sense because Jason or the Voorhies were never meant to be explored again in the series, originally
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
https://horrorenthusiast.com/index.php/bloody-tabloid/friday-the-13th-franchise/61-is-jason-voorhees-immortal-friday-the-13th-facts
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
It may seem odd on the face of it to suggest that he's a child, but it actually explains a lot of otherwise inexplicable aspects of the character of Jason Vorhees, like why he's always skipping and asking passersby for a lolly.
― Eldridge Borgnine (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Jason vs Thunderdome was clearly the best of these
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
He's also like Evil Sloth, maybe.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
yes but this also makes no sense. my theory is that, despite the existence of a corporeal adult jason, the ghost of young jason haunts the lake
but these movies also don't care if they make any sense
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
I like the maybe-fakeout maybe-nightmare who cares ending of 2. “Where’s Paul?”
― YouGov to see it (wins), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
I might watch the really terrible ones tonight
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Going too deep into the postgame worldbuilding wrt these characters whose initial conception basically began and ended with 'dude in weird mask kills folks for...reasons?' is how we get Michael Myers the druidic golem (or whatever the hell that nonsense was).
― Eldridge Borgnine (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Oh god, the Cult of Thorn
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
My current personal hot take on the franchise is that the TV series trumps the movie series. It is such wonderfully cheesy goodness.
― Eldridge Borgnine (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
The episode with the evil compact that made people obsessively fall in love with the wielder, who then felt compelled to kill them, was great
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, October 28, 2019 8:39 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i put myself through the nightmare on elm street sequels this year and it's official: halloween is still the worst horror franchise i've ever seen (still love almost every movie in it though)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Mind, the whys and hows of these movies' mythologies are of course pretty meaningless; Carpenter got it right the first time when he simply hand-waved Michael away as "pure evil" or whatever. But even so, in the case of Jason specifically, his death due to counselor negligence is the entire impetus for the first film, so to have him alive after all implies he was not only living alone in the woods for 25 years or so, but that his mother was totally unaware he was still alive. (Was there any throwaway line in the first one like "they never found his body"?) Credit Part VI and beyond with this, at least they make him a full-on worm-food zombie, which explains his take a licking, keep on ticking invincibility.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
shout factory blu box looks siiiiick
https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/friday-the-13th-collection-deluxe-edition
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
if you watch Friday the 13th backwards, a hockey goalie heals murder victims by walking away from them— kim. (@KimmyMonte) August 30, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
I watched the first 4 of these last October, they are all terrible but so far my ranking is:
4213
last night I picked this back up with 5/A New Beginning, it's wild!! so sleazy but also like almost entirely gore-free??? and full of sloppy continuity errors and exceptionally bad acting (I can't tell if the acting is even worse than the other 4 films or it's just as bad and I've just forgotten). The weird goth/new-wave girl might be my favorite F13 character of the series so far.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
I was binging F13 last year and made it up to Part VII before I had to stop. I really should try to finish up the series at some point, but I'm in the middle of going through Halloween at the moment. Part 5 definitely has the worst acting. My favorite bit is the douchey greaser dude singing "rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie! rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie!"
The new wave girl is awesome for poppin' and lockin' in front of her Alan Parsons Project poster.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
bingeing
― peace, man, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
I put off watching F13 for so long because the premise seemed so boring, and last year I decided I owed it to myself to watch them, and everything I assumed about them ws 100% correct.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
― peace, man, Wednesday, October 6, 2021 11:47 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
i love part v, it's so gross
I feel like I've posted this on ilx before, but here is a decent song/video about Part V, A New Beginning by Wolfie's Just Fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG8iAtpavK4
― peace, man, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
Genuinely enjoy Part VI, which is a surprisingly smart and funny installment, and not even just relative to most of the movies, which are generally unreasonably stupid. Part IV will always be my fave, as far as the more traditional Friday the 13th movies go. I do love the meta opening of the remake, though, which they successfully pulled off a second time with the remake of My Bloody Valentine (which remains my favorite of these standard-issue slashers).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
really excited for steve to get to part vi, i really love pre-scream self-aware slashers and that's one of the very best
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
The only movie critic I trust, Vern, is reviewing all the movies, one a day.
Part I
Part II
Part III
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
"the first movie is actually good for what it is" is something i fundamentally agree with so he's off to a good start
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
they're all good though. except for jason goes to hell, which is bad but fascinating. and the remake, which has a few good ideas but is dull and unmemorable outside of them
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
Omg his reviews are brilliant
A little later we see a different rabbit dead on the road. Maybe it’s just for scenery, like the dead armadillo in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. But this guy is not roadkill. Doesn’t it seem like Jason is supposed to have killed him? What I am proposing is that rabbits can sense Jason, and Jason knows it. They’re like dogs to Terminators. If he doesn’t want people to see him coming, he has to kill all the rabbits in the area. And if so that means the best way to be safe from Jason is to carry a rabbit around in a cage, like Jean-Claude Van Damme in THE SHEPHERD: BORDER PATROL. Think about it.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
Part 5 definitely has the worst acting. My favorite bit is the douchey greaser dude singing "rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie! rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tooie!"
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
ugh vii is the BEST goddamn you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
it's def got the coziest-looking sweaters
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Yes, the outhouse scene is definitely from the same movie.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
VII isn't bad but all the gore got hacked out! I'm a big John Carl Buechler fan so I want to love it more than I do. I'll probably watch these all again next year and revise my opinions.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link