Friday the 13th gets a DVD boxset... finally

I would feel bad about myself if I bought this before finally replacing the Nightmare set. But it's a good price.

It's a shame that we are not getting uncut versions of the films (note that Part 1 is uncut on DVD everywhere but America and Canada) but that extras disc should be a nostalgic rush. But where is Kevin Bacon?

I like the first the best, and the second one is a not bad spin off on Twitch of the Death Nerve. I think Part 5 has the more blood and nudity and it has no plot.

P.S. Here's an exlcusive. They're doing a new one called "Crystal Lake Chronicles" and it will be a New Line/ Crystal Lake Productions series that evolves around Jason and Crystal Lake.

Time for my daily dose of challops!

While they're both probably objectively terrible, I'd like to state for the record that Friday the 13th: The Series >>> Friday the 13th (the series of films). I've been kicking back about an episode a night, and they're just such dopey, cheesy fun. And one of the episodes was directed by Cronenberg. The films can't make such a lofty boast.

There was a two-episode arc about a cursed quilt. I mean...come on. That's magnificent.

Puzzled by actors who try setting themselves apart with a single name. Usually '80s b-movie starlets. Or Fabio. Robey on the series' credits, I wondered at her reasoning.

I think she was trying to kick-start a side gig as a pop singer. One of her songs popped up in an episode I just watched. I'd say it was about as solid as her acting, aaaaaand I'll leave it at that.

oh god i've always wanted to watch the series

Here's a sampler for you, an episode which I might lovingly dub 'the The Room of '80s horror television/Miami Vice mash-ups':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Nu9rbDTZQ

I think I've finally come to the conclusion that, on the one hand, there are bad things where no one involved in their creation cares or tries or is at all invested and that are just a palpable drag for anyone else trying to engage with those things, and, on the other hand, there are things where everyone involved ignores the fact that they maybe aren't up to the task at hand and they go-all in and have fun with it and even though the resulting product is inarguably bad it's also just a lot of fun if you can get on the right wavelength. This show most definitely fits into the latter category of bad things.

That's a decent way of putting it. The Berlanti DC umbrella, the "all-in and having fun" is how I've been feeling about Legends of Tomorrow. Last season's finale, with the giant Beebo facing the demon god, I thought was brilliant.

same thing is true for the Robocop

...TV series

The CW DC shows are well-crafted puff pastries, with lots of professional effort invested in making tasty that passes straight through you. It's undeniably junk but not quite what I'd call 'bad' (feel like I need to plot these points on a coordinate plane). Friday the 13th is like the first production of a newly-formed community theatre comprised entirely of gung-ho amateurs. Every. Single. Episode.

'making SOMETHING tasty' rather