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Every ‘Friday the 13th: The New Blood’ Death Tallied in “Kill Count” Video
Love it or hate it, it’s the film that brought Kane Hodder into the mix.
Just last week we celebrated the 29th anniversary of director John Carl Buechler’s Friday the 13th: The New Blood, which is fittingly the subject of James A. Janisse’s latest video in his popular “Kill Count” series. For those who haven’t been following along, Janisse has been tallying up the deaths in every single installment in the Friday the 13th franchise, with a new episode dropping each and every Friday. We’re honestly kind of sad the Friday fun is almost over, but here’s hoping he heads to Elm Street next!
As mentioned up above, The New Blood saw Kane Hodder play Jason Voorhees for the first of a record four times, which makes it one of the most historic installments right off the bat. The film’s iteration of Jason was nastier looking and, well, deader than ever, and in it the masked maniac was put up against his most worthy adversary up to that point: a woman named Tina who happens to have Carrie-like telekinetic abilities that allow her to bring the fight to Jason like never before.
Infamously, The New Blood was completely butchered by the MPAA, a fact that Janisse notes several times throughout the video – it’s impossible not to when you examine the film’s kill scenes, as most of them take place off screen and are severely lacking in visible gore. It’s a huge bummer but hey, at least The New Blood gave us that iconic sleeping bag kill scene.
Check out the latest “Kill Count” video below!
Vinegar Syndrome makes its first foray into original productions with Eight Eyes, a retro nightmare co-produced with Not the Funeral Home, the team behind Shudder’s “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.” First reported by Screen Daily, Shudder has picked up the film.
No word yet on a Shudder premiere date. Stay tuned for more.
Watch the previously released official trailer below, which nails that retro 1970s vibe.
In Eight Eyes, “A mysterious local crashes a couple’s vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals. A mysterious local crashes a couple’s vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals.”
Co-writer and director Austin Jennings (“The Last Drive-In with Job Bob Briggs”), working from an originating idea by Justin Martell, gets ambitious for his feature film debut.
“Photographed entirely on location in Serbia and Macedonia and on 16mm Kodak film, Eight Eyes draws from European genre cinema and American horror films of the 70s to create a nightmarish tableau of nostalgia twisted into berserk, new shapes. Set among the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, Eight Eyes was developed with significant contributions from the film’s local cast and crew to ensure an authentic portrayal of the cultural environment in which it is set – one rarely been documented on film,” Vinegar Syndrome says of their original production.
Emily Sweet (V/H/S/99), Brad Thomas, and Bruno Veljanovski star. Not the Funeral Home (Executive Producers Justin Martell and Matt Manjourides) produced the film.
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