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mariocki · 11 months

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

"We're going to Camp Crystal Lake."

"Oh yeah? Planning on smoking a little dope, having a little premarital sex and getting slaughtered?"

#Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday #jasoniad #jason goes to hell #horror imagery tw #1993 #american cinema #slasher film #adam marcus #dean lorey #jay huguely #kane hodder #john d. lemay #kari keegan #steven williams #steven culp #erin gray #rusty schwimmer #richard gant #leslie jordan #billy green bush #kipp marcus #allison smith #julie michaels #benefited a lot from going into this blind; that pre credits sequence is absolutely insane and kind of glorious if you aren't expecting it #the rest of the film is a hot mess unfortunately; absolutely fails to build tension or suspense (found myself wistfully thinking about #the second film‚ which is paced and edited so perfectly‚ while here stufd just happens...). weird choices throughout (including some #broad attempts at humour which don't all land‚ tho the presence of the much missed Leslie Jordan was a delightful surprise)#after a rough start John D. LeMay turns out to be a pretty competent‚ pretty cool hero. the Duke character is absurd but #somehow spellbinding in it. also apparently Jason's... essence? soul? whatever it is‚ it's in his heart and he can body hop now which is..#something. eh. i missed Hodder when he was offscreen tbh‚ he's quickly become the definitive Jason for me

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mariocki · 1 year

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Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives, 1986)

"Darren, we'd better turn around."

"Why?"

"Because I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."

#jason lives #friday the 13th part vi: jason lives #jasoniad #horror imagery tw #slasher film #tom mcloughlin #thom mathews #jennifer cooke #david kagen #kerry noonan #renée jones #tom fridley #c. j. graham #darcy demoss #vincent guastaferro #tony goldwyn #nancy mcloughlin #ron palillo #courtney vickery #michael swan #harry manfredini #a film of two halves‚ with a consistent goofiness and willingness to spend time on silly little asides sitting uneasily with a more #serious and high stakes desperate battle in the back end. i enjoy the latter a lot more than the former‚ and the vibe for some of the #goofier splatstick moments was entirely not my thing; once it all gets a bit grim and heavy tho i was more onboard. torn to shreds by #censors on first release‚ the result is a somewhat clumsily edited slasher that still manages to convey some real horror if only through #implication. ron palillo‚ immortal star of Hellgate‚ turns up for all of five minutes but i loved it and he shows what a good performer can #do with even a minor role (seriously‚ he's gone by the opening credits‚ but he makes a real impact). this is the end of the Tommy Jarvis #saga but there's still Jasons left in that deep well of slasherdom... yet to meet his waterloo #also shout out to Paula‚ not just the best camp counsellor in this film but the best the series has had period. like the only person to #take the job seriously. i was rooting for her‚ she was the real mvp (rip)

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mariocki · 1 year

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter, 1984)

"You son of a bitch! I'm gonna give you something to remember us by."

#friday the 13th part 4 the final chapter #friday the 13th: the final chapter #jasoniad #blood tw #slasher film #joseph zito #barney cohen #harry manfredini #kimberly beck #corey feldman #peter barton #erich anderson #judie aronson #joan freeman #crispin glover #clyde hayes #barbara howard #lawrence monoson #camilla more #carey more #ted white #a fourth film in a horror franchise is a tough sell; often this is the point where everybody's really just phoning it in and you know it's #a soulless cash grab. imagine my pleasant surprise then when this turns out to rival parts 1 and 2 for sheer horror film making #excellence. plays with the setup in several delightful ways; adding a family unit makes for a nice change of pace and motivations #while having a character who's not only aware of Jason and his methods but is actively hunting him is a stroke of brilliance (even if he #ends up doing a really shitty job). future big names Feldman and Glover add a touch of class as well as interesting new points of view #(Feldman the first actual child to be involved in the series) and the story is still discernable from its origins in part 1 to where we are #now (altho Jason has morphed somewhat to become something evidently more than human). actually a pretty great film!#plus there's a dog! and I choose to believe he survived being thrown from a window bc that's how i roll

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mariocki · 11 months

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Jason X (2001)

"What the hell is going on?"

"Jason fuckin' Voorhees, that's what's going on!"

#jason x #jasoniad #horror imagery tw #slasher film #2001 #american cinema #james isaac #todd farmer #victor miller #kane hodder #lexa doig #jonathan potts #lisa ryder #chuck campbell #melyssa ade #peter mensah #melody johnson #derwin jordan #amanda brugel #dylan bierk #philip williams #harry manfredini #absolutely insane film in every conceivable way. presumably some suits discussed how to keep the franchise alive‚ someone mentioned that #sci fi was having a renaissance in cinemas‚ and everyone decided to send Big Boy to space and call it a day in the studio #just so many bizarre decisions. the plot‚ the dialogue‚ the costuming and sets. oh did you hear? the earth is uninhabitable in the future #but we don't have time to talk about that rn bc Jason Fucking Voorhees hitched a ride on this space ship. we do have time for multiple sex #scenes tho. also this film cast David goddamn Cronenberg and then threw him away in the first five minutes? the balls of them!#films that actively make you stupider as you watch them‚ but also this is weirdly a really fun time and i wouldn't change a thing #not even the worst line of dialogue in the series to date ('this sucks in multiple ways!')#every franchise deserves a tenth movie set in space. just 6 more Paddingtons to go.

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mariocki · 1 year

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

"Look, you don't understand, there is a maniac trying to kill us!"

"Welcome to New York."

#Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan #jason takes manhattan #jasoniad #1989 #slasher film #rob hedden #jensen daggett #peter mark richman #barbara bingham #scott reeves #vincent craig dupree #sharlene martin #kelly hu #warren munson #tiffany paulsen #todd caldecott #kane hodder #gordon currie #saffron henderson #martin cummins #more accurately this should be titled Jason Takes a Boat (to Manhattan) bc most of the run time is spent on the weirdest ever high school #graduate's cruise to NY on a weird boat that has a gym‚ a sauna‚ a disco and pool room but still looks kind of like a large fishing vessel.#it's weird. but i had fun! this was a good one! goes weird and goofy but doesn't sacrifice the tension or the horror to do it. plus once #Jboy gets to the Big Apple it's kind of incredible (even if that is only the last 15 minutes). we also finally get some lore straightened #out about the boy's origins (8 movies in!!) and some creative and kooky kills. a fun time! ok it isn't on a par with 1 or 2 or 4 but for a #late stage sequel to a visibly tired franchise this is really pretty great. Hodder still the guy to beat as Jason (his bemused reaction to #seeing a gigantic picture of a hockey mask is kind of wonderful) and the disposable teens are pretty likable and fairly well drawn #also there's a badass dog that survives so jot that down slasher makers‚ it's always a winning idea #this is the end of my boxset so I'm gonna have to turn to more questionable sources for the next instalment #may take some time so no Jason for a while i expect

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mariocki · 1 year

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, 1985)

"Jason Voorhees? You're out of your fucking mind, you've been out in the sun too long! Jason Voorhees is dead! His body was cremated, he's nothing but a handful of ash."

"You know that for sure, mayor? Were you there? Did you see him cremated?"

#friday the 13th part v: a new beginning #jasoniad #slasher film #horror imagery tw #1985 #danny steinmann #martin kitrosser #david cohen #john shepherd #shavar ross #juliette cummins #todd bryant #tiffany helm #melanie kinnaman #corey parker #miguel a. núñez jr.#sonny shields #dick wieand #rebecca wood #ric mancini #absolutely the dumbest film in the series so far‚ and contender for one of the dumbest slashers to come out of the 80s marathon of big #screen splatterers. starts with an unlikeable vibe full of ott eccentric characters and needlessly goofy asides and silly performances #and ends with one of the most inane and inexplicable twists in horror cinema (so much so that a scene explaining it had to be shot and #inserted in post after test audiences understandably reacted with bafflement). I'd be even harder on this film if it wasn't also doing #one thing really well: it sets up one twist so cleverly and with such capable misdirection that i was fully suckered when it DOESN'T happen #and instead the stupider twist does. it sounds weird but it's a case of leading on a smug and self confident horror viewer (guilty) and #it's honestly a brilliant bit of 'i bet you have this figured out huh.. Wrong!'. otherwise tho yeah this is not a great film. also it's #very noticeably sleazier and nastier than its predecessors‚ with much more nudity and sex and general exploitation.#director Steinmann had a background in pornography and it shows pretty clearly; disquieting too to read about the bts shoots which give an #impression of an unsafe and exploitative film production which pressured the women in the cast into doing more nude work

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mariocki · 1 year

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Friday the 13th: Part 2 (1981)

"What if there is a Jason?"

"Oh, bullshit, Ginny."

"No, what if there is some kind of boy-beast running around Camp Crystal Lake? I mean, let's try to think beyond the legend, put it in real terms. I mean, what would he be like today? Some kind of out of control psychopath?"