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FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINING
After slaying Jason in the last five minutes of the final chapter, Tommy, it seems, has inherited the hockey mask and homicidal tendencies. Its hard to have anything left but a big whatever for any of the plot contrivances thrown our way by now. Has there ever been a franchise so blas about creating its mythology? Save the early axing death of a chubby retard, theres little to keep even fans interested here. The gore started slipping in part four, and theres even less here. Things wont really look up until Jason to Hell. *
JASON LIVES: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI
As confused by the running mythology as we are, the creators of Jason Lives decide that the only thing left to do is make Jason immortal. Evidently, one properly channeled bolt of lightning can raise the dead, even if said dead has been dead for years. Watch for a Welcome Back Kotter alum in the films opening scene. The rotting super-Jason looks pretty cool, but like just about every other Friday, this is a yawner. And evidently audiences finally started catching on. This was as successful as Jason would be at the box office until he finally goes toe to toe with Freddy in 2003.
HELL HOUSE 2003
Creepier than just about any horror film youll see, this surprisingly fair documentary chronicles a Texas fundamentalist Christian high schools annual Halloween event putting on a haunted house to scare you into Christianity. Taking us from the deadly serious audition process to the Oscar-style awards ceremony they hold after the fact, this subversive little film has lots to say, and its all in the editing. Some of it is far more sad than it is disturbing like the clearly gay father who performs along side his children in haunted house vignettes showing homosexual teens burning in hell and scenarios portraying the evils of the Internet (his wife left him for a man she met online). An entire community of well-meaning people who seem to be choking on denial and repression have way too much fun acting out the things theyre condemning. An ex-raver takes it upon himself to direct the date-rape drug/rave scene and suspiciously reveals an awful lot of knowledge about how date rape drugs work. Rooms of Hell House include screaming bloody abortions, suicides and Columbine-inspired classroom shootings...all in the name of God. The director takes special care to not make fun, manipulate the truth or judge. He lets the primaries speak for themselves and what they have to say is plenty disturbing. Worse yet, the concept of Hell House has been franchised so that you can expect to see them popping up all over the deep south every fall. A powerful and entertaining documentary. ***
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINING
After slaying Jason in the last five minutes of the final chapter, Tommy, it seems, has inherited the hockey mask and homicidal tendencies. Its hard to have anything left but a big whatever for any of the plot contrivances thrown our way by now. Has there ever been a franchise so blas about creating its mythology? Save the early axing death of a chubby retard, theres little to keep even fans interested here. The gore started slipping in part four, and theres even less here. Things wont really look up until Jason to Hell. *
JASON LIVES: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI
As confused by the running mythology as we are, the creators of Jason Lives decide that the only thing left to do is make Jason immortal. Evidently, one properly channeled bolt of lightning can raise the dead, even if said dead has been dead for years. Watch for a Welcome Back Kotter alum in the films opening scene. The rotting super-Jason looks pretty cool, but like just about every other Friday, this is a yawner. And evidently audiences finally started catching on. This was as successful as Jason would be at the box office until he finally goes toe to toe with Freddy in 2003.
HELL HOUSE 2003
Creepier than just about any horror film youll see, this surprisingly fair documentary chronicles a Texas fundamentalist Christian high schools annual Halloween event putting on a haunted house to scare you into Christianity. Taking us from the deadly serious audition process to the Oscar-style awards ceremony they hold after the fact, this subversive little film has lots to say, and its all in the editing. Some of it is far more sad than it is disturbing like the clearly gay father who performs along side his children in haunted house vignettes showing homosexual teens burning in hell and scenarios portraying the evils of the Internet (his wife left him for a man she met online). An entire community of well-meaning people who seem to be choking on denial and repression have way too much fun acting out the things theyre condemning. An ex-raver takes it upon himself to direct the date-rape drug/rave scene and suspiciously reveals an awful lot of knowledge about how date rape drugs work. Rooms of Hell House include screaming bloody abortions, suicides and Columbine-inspired classroom shootings...all in the name of God. The director takes special care to not make fun, manipulate the truth or judge. He lets the primaries speak for themselves and what they have to say is plenty disturbing. Worse yet, the concept of Hell House has been franchised so that you can expect to see them popping up all over the deep south every fall. A powerful and entertaining documentary. ***
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