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Hilarious Video Blends ‘Friday the 13th’ Films and Video Game
It’s Friday the 13th: The Game… in real life!
The developers of Friday the 13th: The Game managed to capture the feeling and overall execution of the Friday the 13th films so perfectly that it honestly feels like a lost sequel from the ’80s… one that happens to star YOU. Playing the game feels like watching the movies, and watching the movies now feels like, well, playing the game!
I’ve been revisiting the Friday the 13th films in the wake of logging countless hours in the video game’s world, and I’ve found myself watching them with a fresh set of eyes. I can’t help but imagine the movie characters as video game characters, yelling at the screen for them to tap the right buttons in order to evade Jason and make it out of Camp Crystal Lake alive.
And it seems I’m not the only one, as YouTuber PsychoFilms has just taken it upon himself to mesh together the Friday the 13th movies and video game in the way I had been imagining in my head. He took various clips from the movies and added the game’s sounds and on-screen prompts over top of them, making for a fun video that perfectly reflects how much the game has changed the experience of watching the films.
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‘Desperation’ – Sam Raimi and ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors Teaming for Stephen King Movie
Stephen King’s 1996 novel Desperation is headed back to the screen, with Jeff Sneider breaking the news on The InSneider that Sam Raimi, Stephen King, and Final Destination Bloodlines directors Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky are coming together for the film.
Sam Raimi will produce the upcoming Desperation movie, while Stein and Lipovsky are on board to direct. Searchlight Pictures is the studio attached to the feature film project.
Published in 1996, Stephen King’s novel Desperation was previously turned into a made-for-TV movie starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber back in 2006.
Wikipedia reminds, “Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to ‘rescuing’ a family from a nonexistent gunman. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive.
“They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came.”
Desperation was published at the same time as Stephen King’s own “mirror novel” titled The Regulators, which shares characters but takes place in an alternate universe.
The union of Sam Raimi and Stephen King is an exciting one for fans of both Raimi and King, and there’s a nice bit of full circle history there too. As you may recall, it was Stephen King’s review of The Evil Dead that Raimi credits for saving and legitimizing his indie debut feature.
And the rest is history! Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
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