Tag: slasher movies
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, 1984
“Die! Die! Die! Die!” Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, 1984 (Crispin Glover), Paramount Pictures As is the course for the Friday the 13th franchise, we start with a clip show. This is like watching Happy Days, Family Ties, Friends or any number of sitcoms where the actors’ contractual demands per episode outweighed any reason…
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Vintage Cable Box: The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982
“All of you are very pretty. I love you. It takes a lot of love for a person to… do this. You know you want it. You’ll like it.” The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982 (Michele Michaels), New World Pictures I’m going to have to get analytical now. I knew this day would come, where I…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th Part III, 1982
“Look upon this omen and go back from whence ye came! I have warned thee! I have warned thee.” Friday the 13th Part III, 1982 (Richard Brooker), Paramount Pictures We pick up right where we left off with the previous installment, and then I begin to suspect these opening scenes exist only to pad out…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981
“I told the others, they didn’t believe me. You’re all doomed. You’re all doomed.” Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981 (Adrienne King), Paramount Pictures Adrienne King is having nightmares. Specifically, nightmares about the carnage from a few months prior. Pamela shakes her, tells her Jason should have been watched. He wasn’t a very good swimmer,…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th, 1980
“It’s got a death curse!” Friday the 13th, 1980 (Betsy Palmer), Paramount Pictures The slasher film was by no means a new idea when Friday the 13th opened to theaters in 1980, nor even Halloween two years previous. A quick trip to the Wikipedia unearths unusual obscurities like Maurice Tourneur’s The Lunatics from 1912 (which…
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