For the videonaut like myself, the mere mention of the beach brings to mind images of beautiful girls in bikinis, Navy researchers, crusty fishermen, and some occasional aquatic monsters on the loose.
A party of scientists discover an ancient cave, and what they think to be fossil eggs. However, the eggs haven’t turned to stone and soon a monstrous prehistoric beast is on the loose!
It’s that day again and in our customary recognition of that, here we have Maddy’s untimely demise in the 1988 entry into the Friday the 13th franchise, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
For our customary Friday the 13th piece today, we have crazed killer Jason Vorhees burying the hatchet (well, yes, it’s a full-sized ax) in Melissa’s head in 1988’s Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
To do something a little different with this Friday the 13th piece, here’s a pre-death scene of one of the higher-profile actresses whose character became another notch on Jason’s Voorhees’ machete.
Here’s one I haven’t gotten yet, though it’s on the list. Hammer’s Twins of Evil came along during the studio’s last gasps as a horror factory. Though they had dominated the Gothic horror market beginning in the late 50s.
The Birds is the closest thing the screen’s Master of Suspense ever came to making a “monster movie.” Its key scenes continue to be copied by “zombie movies” to this day. Although the second half is very strong, the first
1988’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, marked ….well, the return of Michael Myers to the Halloween franchise, of course. He came back after the series took a one-film departure from the adventures of the Haddonfield mass-murderer with 1982’s
Sean Donohue’s indie slasher, Die Die Delta Pi, was probably shot a couple of years earlier than its year of release, judging by the looks of a couple of the actresses in the film. It’s not bad for a film of its type with a modest budget, but that’s mainly because of its female cast.
Throughout the Friday the 13th franchise (except for the first one, of course, since it was mom doing the killing in that one), Jason Voorhees has always been an innovative and resourceful murderer. A prime example of that is this
In all of the entries in the original Friday the 13th franchise, Jason Voorhees usually made very quick work of his victims, slaying most without them even knowing what, much less who, hit them. However, in this scene from 2009