Xenomorph: The Birth of a Monster
The Xenomorph is perhaps the most terrifying creation in all of cinema.
There had been monsters before, and there would be monsters after, but does anything else really come close? Let us take a moment to consider…
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
It took producers a whole year to renege on Friday the 13th’s promise that part IV would indeed be the final chapter, and the $22,000,000 it raked in – more than ten times its allocated budget – tells you exactly why.
Jason was far too big a draw to put to bed in 1984, and you have to believe that the studio was aware of this; in all likelihood, Jason’s demise was nothing more than a cynical marketing gimmick…
VHS Revival’s Top 10 Jason Kills – Part Two
It’s true that it doesn’t take much to persuade Jason to indulge in homicidal warfare. It is also true that, during his annual killing sprees, he generally doesn’t have to try too hard to succeed, so reliable are the contrivances of his inane and promiscuous cast of victims…
VHS Revival’s Top 10 Jason kills – Part One
The first kill I have opted for is that of the mentally challenged Junior, whose screen time, sparse as it is, is limited to the kind of nonsensical yammering that could drive a person crazy. Under the rule of his redneck mother Ethel, Junior revels in taunting the unhinged residents of Pinehurst Halfway House, his eccentricities too volatile for any of them to bear…
Friday the 13th part VII: The New Blood (1988)
The New Blood is a mutilation of a movie, and not as a result of Jason himself, but because of the Motion Picture Association of America, who hacked away the majority of the gore and set out to castrate the franchise forever…
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
The last time we saw Jason Voorhees his head was sliding along the edge of a machete.
That particular instalment was advertised as The Final Chapter, and although Part V stayed true to the studio’s promise by introducing a copycat killer, you never really believed it was the end for the madman in the hockey mask. There was simply too much money at stake.
