Check out three clips from Friday The 13th 2009!

Check out the Friday The 13th blog for come links to 3 clips from the upcoming Friday The 13th 2009. The clips really don't show much, but does reveal a very dusty, hot atmosphere that seems like it will really play well. I can't say that the clips (or even the trailers/TV spots) make me want to see this movie much- although being a huge fan I will- but it's certainly not hurting.

Debi-Sue Voorhees.

[D.O.B.] July 28, 1961

[Movie] Friday The 13th Part V

[Character] Tina

[History] Spent most of her time at Pinehurst having sex with Eddie (John Robert Dixon) on crazy neighbor Ethel's property. After Ethel threatened to kill them if she ever sees them on her property again, they disregard her threats. After a session of sex, she is murdered by Jason impostor Roy Burns.

[Cause Of Death] Stabbed in the eyes with a pair of garden shears by Jason impostor Roy Burns.

[Where is she now?] Deborah Voorhees has retired from acting, and is now a journalist. She also has a BS in journalism and worked with The Dallas Morning News. She recently attended a Part V cast reunion at Texas Fear Fest.

Fan film review: Living End

Living End isn't a great fan film by any means, however seeing what it came from it becomes a much more impressive little tidbit of a fan film. Someone watching this for the first time may think that more time and effort was put into the credits than the actual film, and in a way it may have been.

Director Jason Pavlik started this film as "test footage" for an upcoming fan film and ended up scrapping the idea for some reason or another. Enter Nicholas Michalak- Nick basically wrote another scene and acted it and made the film a good effort in my eyes. It's one of the older fan films out there, not much of a plot, yet another portly Jason with a very bad flannel that's glued to a machete and of course no blood or gore.

Not a lot can be said about this fan film except that it is a good attempt with good post production. We will never know what this film could have been is Jason and Nick would have shot the film they had intended, but at least we have this short- it's well worth the few minutes of running time so give it a watch.

Rapin' Jason Part II: Electric Boogaloo

So, I did a blog about Friday The 13th clones of recent and it sort of made me want to do one on the Friday The 13th clones of the 1980's. Th1 1980's were full of in-the-woods slashers with a masked killer and sometimes at a summer camp. Here are five of my favorite ones- ones that I would highly recommend to watch.

#5 Don't Go In The Woods Alone: Not at all a great movie by any means, but it's funny with intentional and non-intentional humor. The movie delivers in the gore department as well as the sheer brutality of the killer. It's hard to say this is a Friday The 13th clone- it's really not- but it takes place in the woods with a killer who lives in a shack in the woods. It was no doubt made to profit off of the in-the-woods slasher craze that Friday The 13th spawned.



#4 The Final Terror: A lot of people completely discount this movie for some reason and I am not sure why. This movie really has a lot going for it and aside from being what is now a typical slasher, it had a pretty good plot with a great twist. The movie is about a group of friends heading to the woods for hiking and camping. They inadvertently stumble upon an old shack and the territory of a psychotic killer with an agenda.





#3 Humongous: Once again, woods + stranded teens + killer = fun slasher movie. Well, Humongous does severely lack in a lot of areas but I absolutely love this film. There's a lot of things in this movie very reminiscent of Friday The 13th. The story is about a group of teens who's boat brings down on an island. While some of them go inland to look for help, others are picked off one-by-one by a 7'5" killer.




#2 Madman: Much like The Burning, Madman has the same simple story but executed well- a summer camp with a history. Madman is definitely not good and really cheesy, however it does deliver with atmosphere and violence.








#1 The Burning: It's really debatable if this movie was planned before or after Friday The 13th. Tom Savini has said that he was offered the special make-up effects role in this movie while he was working on Friday The 13th. The movie does seem like a clone, however it's based on a well-known tale of the area so it is feasible that it is just a coincidence. I rank this #1 because the killer is awesome, the movie is bloody, we have boobs and a phenomenally shot movie with an awesome atmosphere. The movie was shot in sevaral areas of beautiful Western New York and the cinematography captures the sheer beauty and uses it to add to the dread of the movie's direction. I still say this mobie is both- horribly over rated and amazingly under-rated at the same time.