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Let’s Examine the “Kill Count” in ‘Friday the 13th: Jason Lives’
Jason is dead. Long live Jason.
Fans were none too happy about the reveal in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning that “Jason Voorhees” was actually Roy Burns, a vengeful paramedic who was unmasked and killed at the very of the franchise’s fifth installment. How did Paramount respond? Of course, they brought Jason back to life in the following year’s Friday the 13th: Jason Lives, which is notable for marking the start of Jason’s run as an undead monster.
Tom McLoughlin wrote and directed Jason Lives, a fun sequel that has proven to be a real fan favorite. Way ahead of its time, McLoughlin brought meta humor into his Friday the 13th film long before Scream came along, taking the franchise into a new direction that was incredibly refreshing back in 1986. When you consider that it’d be 10 years before Wes Craven made meta horror into a bona fide sub-genre of its own, it’s pretty incredible that McLoughlin played around with similar ideas a full decade prior.
In any event, the latest installment of weekly YouTube series “Kill Count” just hit the net (it is Friday, after all), and it shines the spotlight on all the carnage on display in Jason Lives. As host James A. Janisse points out, many of the kill scenes are lacking in the graphic gore department, but the film still managed to deliver memorable brutality.
What’s the film’s best kill? You’ll find James’ pick below and we’d love to hear yours!
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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