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[Remember This?] Paying Tribute To The Sleaziest ‘Friday The 13th’ Entry!
When director Danny Steinman died last year at the age of 70, we lost the only person who could offer firsthand perspective on what the hell it must have been like trying to govern the set of Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Out of all of the films in the franchise, the making of Part V was notorious for its rampant cocaine use and general bad behavior.
While I don’t have any doubt that a considerable about of screen time is devoted to this in the upcoming Crystal Lake Memories documentary (at over 6 hours, they’ve gotta spend at least 40 minutes on this one alone), it’s fun to imagine the ways in which the real life excesses bled over into the making of the film. First of all, you’ve got Demon – a guy who can sing to his girlfriend mid bowel-movement! He’s a true multitasker (with a trunk full of junk food – not a euphemism)! But that’s not all! This is a slasher movie so gloriously out if its mind that they have a non-villain character murder a chubby guy for talking about his candy bar too much. Even the boobs in the film, a normal slasher staple, somehow feel wrong. The characters at the halfway house? Mostly despicable. Our hero? A sweaty mute.
A New Beginning isn’t a movie like Jason Lives that you can put on any old time. Everything about it, from the photography on down to the killer’s reveal, makes me want to take a shower. I applaud this.
What’s your favorite moment from this weirdo installment? Also, if you live in LA remember that we’re screening the first four films on Friday to celebrate the Blu-ray release of “Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection” (you can buy the tickets here)!
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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