Friday the 13th: Jason Goes to POLL

I’m thinking about marathoning Halloween this month, realized I’ve seen almost none of the sequels past 3.

my feelings on the sequels

Halloween 4 - mostly crap, cool ending
Halloween 5 - mostly crap, crap ending
Halloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAP
Halloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!
Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror

(not part of this series but)

Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movie
Rob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior comment

and then

Halloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)

my favorite thing about the first three Fridays is they can be summarized as such

Friday the 13th - no Jason, mommy is killer
Friday the 13th, Part 2 - Jason has paper bag over head
Friday the 13th, Part 3 - Jason now found a mask

the Jason in 3 is infuriatingly sedate, I remember telling Brad last year that his demeanor was basically like, bored dad ambling around the barbecue waiting for something to do, like he doesn't even want to be there

"his pulse never went above 85 bpm"

I used to love these dumb movies and seeing them in the theaters was part of the fun, but I got really turned off to seeing them in crowds when we went to see Freddy v Jason and the crowd went uncomfortably nuts, screaming in giddiness when Jason killed Kelly Rowland's character. It was gross and weird.

the only redeeming thing about 3 was this character's necklace, a miniature boot on a string?????

https://i.imgur.com/9dmipeO.jpg

I will also say that 5 movies in I continue to be surprised at how tame they are, like ALL of the gore has been cut out and somehow all of the footage was lost and we don't have restored directors cuts of like, any of these???? titties aside, every single one of these has felt like an edited-for-tv version

Halloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode.

there needs to be a film to document the Myers road trip IMO

As it turns out, there is a shadow transportation app out there that helps get slashers from point A to point B, called Slyce.

LOL

turns out Michael Myers does speak, just wait til you fuck up his omelette at Waffle House - you won't hear the end of it

I will also say that 5 movies in I continue to be surprised at how tame they are, like ALL of the gore has been cut out and somehow all of the footage was lost and we don't have restored directors cuts of like, any of these???? titties aside, every single one of these has felt like an edited-for-tv version

"Hey man, make sure you give me five stars, but watch those finger knives on the leather please."

my feelings on the sequels

Halloween 4 - mostly crap, cool ending
Halloween 5 - mostly crap, crap ending
Halloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAP
Halloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!
Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror

(not part of this series but)

Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movie
Rob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior comment

and then

Halloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)

Yeah, during my current rewatch, I got up through 4, then skipped to 2018. Might revisit some of the other entries later. I watched the first Zombie entry years ago and don't remember too much about it, but I heard that the second one is the better of his two.

i mean slasher movies from the 80s also just seem a bit tamer because they used to threaten X ratings for much more benign shit back then, so a lot of the more OTT stuff got shelved or 'edited' to cut away or were merely implied.

whereas nowadays you can show a brutal decapitation on a Marvel television show that is ultimately otherwise considered PG-13 ish (Daredevil) and nobody bats an eyelid.

Halloween 3 fucking rules though

8 more days to Halloween
halloween
halloween

omg neanderthal, watch jason x immediately

or don't and just put on Moonraker or Superman 3 or something instead

let's watch both *slams Budweiser down*

Jason X, Moonraker

i'm rewatching Halloween (2018), once I finish that, I will probably throw Jason X on. heard too much about it to put off any longer :)

halloween 4 is a good movie. halloween 5 is a cursed movie, much like friday part v. halloween 6 is like... a total misfire that is fun to watch but it also sort of sucks, much like jason goes to hell

halloween resurrection is fucking hilarious

like the moment where there's two Michael Myers walking around and for a moment you're like OMG, this is how he's immortal! he franchised serial killing, like Gallagher with his comedy show, he hires multiple Michael Myers to do the killing, omg this is brill

and then one of them pulls his mask off and he's Busta Rhymes trolling the people on his reality show.

weak.

Yes, I will get around to Jason X sometime this season.

Halloween takes are OTM. 3 is spectacular, 1 & 2 are fine, the rest of the OG sequels are zzzzzzzzzzzz. Most worthless of the Big Three slasher franchises, easily. Will also watch the 2018 sequel sometime soon, though.

resurrection is the hellraiser sequel of the halloween franchise, totally unrelated movie with michael myers grafted onto it

the dude at the end of Halloween 3 is kinda me at work every day

"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOOOOOOOOPPPP ITTTT"

(director's cut of the zombie halloween 2 is astonishing)

the problem I have with early-mid 2000s slasher films is that it reminds you how lame bro culture was back then.

fuckin half expected Michael Myers to sip on a Zima

Halloween III is definitely unique. I wouldn't necessarily say it rules though. I think a lot of people try to defend it because of the backlash. It's like Phantasm meets Howard the Duck meets IT (1990) and probably a few other things.

The poster is one of the best movie posters of all time though. The comic book series Stray Dogs just used the poster art as a variant cover for their tpb.

https://media.keycollectorcomics.com/media/b1629464859608s-l1600__3_.jpg

lol, I xposted right over Brad's Halloween opinions. I rewatched Halloween 4 a couple weeks back and I still don't think I've awoken from my coma. Sorry, Brad.

The Loomis turn in the remake is one of the all-time groaner contrivances.

listen, if you fall asleep to a movie, i consider that a good thing. the thing that rocks about halloween 4 is the autumnal vibe is the strongest in that one

the michael myers mask sucks ass but i like pretty much everything else about it

there are a few undercooked ideas in Halloween 3 that keep it from being perfect for me, but Kupfer's entire family being killed is an astonishing critique of unchecked capitalism and it rules

Fun fact: I have read the novelizations of both Friday the 13th part 6 and Halloween 4.

also I love that Helloween's first EP samples that annoying assed "8 more days to Halloween song" before the song kicks in

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Jamie walked down the stairs, sobbing. She was wearing her uncle's mask, and holding a bloody knife.

Loomis did not even need a moment for the truth to sink in.

Jamie...

...was on drugs.

Immediately, he pulled out his pistol and shot Jamie dead.

Not in Reagan's America, you don't.

halloween 2 (rob zombie)
halloween
halloween 3: season of the witch
halloween h20
halloween 4: the revenge of michael myers
halloween 2
halloween (rob zombie)
halloween 5: the cookie woman
halloween: resurrection
halloween (2018) (sorry)

Trailer for the 3rd in the new Halloween trilogy will have a slowed down/creepy kids’ choir version of the “8 more days till Halloween” silver shamrock song y/n

the editing of halloween (2018) is very bad and i hate the conception of laurie's character and the humor seems flown in from another movie and punctures the mood

Huh guess I need to see the second Zombie one. I didn't hate his first one, but never heard much enthusiasm for the second.

I find him to be a frustrating director, I love about half of his stuff and hate the others. I haven't seen 3 From Hell, 31 or Halloween 2 though.

jon: seek out the director's cut of zombie's halloween 2, which is i think the default streaming version. it's a major exploration of laurie's ptsd

Will do! Was trying to decide what to watch this weekend.

it is filmed in 16mm and looks so gnarly and grim and the moonlight looks like its emanating from the cover of a black metal album

listen, if you fall asleep to a movie, i consider that a good thing. the thing that rocks about halloween 4 is the autumnal vibe is the strongest in that one

also if you like lords of salem, most likely you'll find a lot to like in halloween 2

huh I just saw Lords of Salem and did enjoy it.

the autumnal vibe

Like when Loomis is poking around that desert gas station in (checks notes) Illinois? I love the part where the babysitter is looking for the little girl in the darkened streets (caused by the power outage, which was an awesome kill).

the power outage is the other best part of that film

also if you like lords of salem, most likely you'll find a lot to like in halloween 2

Yes! Definitely a top tier Zombie film, I love it.