Tag Archives: 80’s

Double Feature: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)/Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

Only a year after the “final” installment in the Jason Voorhees saga, Paramount unleashed Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) – because there were bills to pay. The studio made a two-picture deal with director Danny Steinmann (Savage Streets), … Continue reading

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Crimes of Passion (1984)

Ken Russell’s major Hollywood foray, Altered States (1980), was a big-budget, FX-driven, mind-bending science fiction fable centered on isolation tank experiments: a 2001 for the New Age set. Though the film made its money back, it ended Russell’s shot at the Hollywood … Continue reading

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Double Feature: Friday the 13th Part III (1982)/Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

When last we left Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), he had rebounded from an encounter with a Final Girl and still somewhere stalks the Crystal Lake region. The film marked the introduction of Jason as the killer (in … Continue reading

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