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‘Jason Goes to Hell’ Doc ‘Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday’ Now Funding on Indiegogo
The entire Friday the 13th franchise got the retrospective documentary treatment with Crystal Lake Memories, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any stories left to tell…
The upcoming documentary Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday will dig deep into Jason Goes to Hell and only Jason Goes to Hell, and it’s now funding on Indiegogo!
Here’s the overview, via Indiegogo:
In 1993, New Line released the first Jason film after purchasing the character from Paramount. Bewilderingly, the studio had decided to allow 23 year old first-time director Adam Marcus to helm the film. What followed was the most controversial installment in the horror genre’s biggest franchise. It was called Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and fans were wildly divided in their response and remain so a quarter century later. This is the story of that film.
Few horror characters have continued to haunt the big screen like this hockey-masked killer. His name alone incites fear. He has died (a lot), come back (a lot), fought a psychic girl, taken Manhattan, been to space, fought Freddy, and been rebooted (and rebooted.. and rebooted!). Though he has been solidified as a horror icon for nearly forty years, none of his films have been more controversial than Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.
Twenty five years later, we want to shed some light on this incredibly polarizing installment. Love it or hate it, we are setting out to get some answers for YOU, the fans! Why were some of those creative choices made? Why was Jason a non-character in his own franchise film? Why on earth would a huge studio like New Line Cinema choose to put this legendary, blockbuster horror fan-favorite in the hands of a 23-year old Writer/Director Adam Marcus, who had NEVER written or directed a studio film in his young career?!
Well fans, you are in for a fun ride! We’ve brought together an awesome team with much of the original cast and crew from the film, including Writer/Director Adam Marcus! We (the team) aim to give fans and haters alike some raw insight into this controversial installment, as well as offer YOU the opportunity to ask your most burning questions to the cast and crew of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday!
We are ripping off the mask and hoping to offer a fresh perspective, some fan feedback, and a closer understanding of this iconic film and how it came to be.
Head over to the Hearts of Darkness Indiegogo campaign to learn more and pitch in. The team is looking to raise $50,000 before Halloween to get the doc made and released.
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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