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New “Kill Count” Video Examines the Savini Kills in ‘Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter’
7 males and 7 females die in The Final Chapter. Equality!
If you’re asking me, the single greatest installment in the Friday the 13th franchise (yes, even counting the 1980 original) is Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, released in 1984. Directed by Joseph Zito, the fourth installment is notable for being the only film aside from the first to feature gore effects by Tom Savini, as Savini agreed to come back so he could kill his own creation.
And The Final Chapter, despite having a slightly misleading title, actually did come through on that promise. The film truly was the end of one chapter and the start of another, killing off Jason and paving way for him to become an undead monster in the subsequent installments. So was that subtitle actually a lie? I mean, it totally was. But it also totally wasn’t. In any event…
The latest episode of James A. Janisse’s weekly series “Kill Count” just dropped, and it examines the gruesome carnage in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. As mentioned, Tom Savini did the effects for the film, so the death scenes are particularly painful and brutal in this one. Who could ever forget Crispin Glover getting a corkscrew to the hand and cleaver to the face?!
My personal favorite kill in The Final Chapter? The death of Jason, which saw him stabbed in the head with a machete… which he then slid down in glorious close up. Bless you, Savini.
Check out the new “Kill Count” episode below!
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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