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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!
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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