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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!
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”