![]() ![]() Kane Hodder’s last attempt as Jason still portrayed him as one mean dude and the kills are all as good as you’d expect, it just doesn’t play out how you want it to. My qualms with the film begin and end on that fundamental level Jason is never going to be as effective in space as he would be in the woods from a horror perspective. Sending Pinhead to space made some logical sense because it’d be hard to mess with the Lament Configuration if it wasn’t on this planet. Leprechaun can go to space (or the Space Hood) and no one really cares. Why the fuck did Jason go to space? How did the idea even come up? Well, I’m pretty certain the reason it was brough about was because filmmakers knew it was the easiest pitch to get the sell. With the much anticipated remake of the original film on the horizon, I’ve decided to go back through the sands of time and cut Jason Voorhees down to size one film at a time. My earliest memory comes from catching Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood on SuperChannel when it first aired (although I distinctly remember considering it the new Jason movie I was a veteran at the age of four or five) and throughout the years I made sure to tape all the flicks in their uncut form off of MovieMax before eventually being able to snag them all on overpriced DVDs. Like the sport of hockey and my own mother, I can’t remember a time that I didn’t know of Jason Voorhees stalking Camp Crystal Lake and its surroundings. Not that it mattered, even as a 10 year old, I still liked the tapes I rented to show some age. I could get 5 horror films from the regular racks for that price. Kids my age were always checking out new releases, but they were around 5 bucks. Being born in 1985, I missed a lot of the series’ original hype and ended up being one of the leftovers from an era I wasn’t even truly a part of by the time Jason had been phased out of mainstream existence. The series never consisted of any profound or intricate films from an artistic standpoint, but what set the franchise aside from all the rest was its ability to consistently rile up the audience with intense chase scenes, zany characters, nudity, outlandish kills and some of the most invigorating climaxes the genre has ever seen. ![]() From an obsessed, vengeful mother to a sack-faced backwoods maniac to the a hockey masked icon and beyond, the Friday the 13th series is undoubtedly the pinnacle of veracious slasher success. If you were a horror fan in the eighties and nineties, you were a fan of Jason Voorhees. ![]()
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