To be fair, I only watched the section devoted to FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING tonight as a chaser to that movie, but I have seen CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES in its entirety before!
In fact, this was a fun memory to relive. I had forgotten that all of the footage from the earlier documentary HIS NAME WAS JASON was incorporated into this epic 8 hours one. And that I had been hired to conduct a batch of…
It's the 40th anniversary of FRIDAY V! So, I knew I had to celebrate by revisiting it! (Been quite a few years, at this point.)
I don't know why I have such reverence for this one, but I love it. I think this very well may have been the first FRIDAY THE 13TH experience I had as a kid, renting it on VHS. Getting the backstory and lore of Jason Voorhees and Tommy Jarvis. Meeting this broken, mentally disturbed version…
Way back in 2004, I had seen and fallen in love with a horror movie called MALEVOLENCE, which was made by a Long Island filmmaker named Stevan Mena. The film asks, what if a group of amateur bank robbers stumbled into the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE house and Michael Myers was living there? It felt like a modernized version of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN. A few years later, Mena followed it up with a prequel, BEREAVEMENT, where we learn that Martin, the…
I know that David Cronenberg has kids, and that they're both making genre movies these days. But let's face it. Coralie Fargeat is his true heir!
Demi Moore gives one of the bravest performances of her career as an aging actress / host of a fitness show. When her sleazy producer, Dennis Quaid, boots her in search of a much younger, "hotter" replacement, she learns about this experimental drug called "the substance." Which can pretty much clone you into a…
