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Jason Voorhees Slaughters 83 In This Reimagining of the Entire ‘Friday the 13th’ Franchise [Video]
Filmmaker Jorge Torres-Torres, who previously created fan edits of both Phantasm and Evil Dead, just delivered his coup de grâce, a complete reimagining of the entire Friday the 13th franchise.
All of the films have been spliced into a taut 85 minutes of mayhem and carnage in which Jason Voorhees slaughters 83 people. That’s nearly a kill every minute. While I expected this to be more of a supercut of death sequences, Jorge has actually put an immense amount of time and effort into the story arc and giving new continuity to a completely fresh take on the material. I watched it this morning and it’s amazing.
In the “art film”, which is accessible at this link, Jason Voorhees never drowns. Instead, he’s a grown man seeking revenge alongside his mother, Pamela. We follow his path to first getting his mask and running into Corey Feldman’s Tommy, as both a child and adult, to his run-in with Freddy Krueger and eventually launch into deep space.
“I basically took the first five films and edited them as if the murders were being committed all in the same night by Jason and his mother, Pamela,” Jorge tells Bloody Disgusting. “The rest (parts VI-X, including Freddy vs. Jason) are edited to form a more coherent narrative even as the franchise ventures into insane storylines. In addition, I swapped music from the films with a more giallo soundtrack, giving it a slightly romantic palette (most songs are from the Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack). I started this revision on Friday, July 13th of this year. It took almost two months to put together.”
While the dialogue is at a minimum, this fan edit is a masterpiece that should be played at all Halloween parties this October.
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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