Tag: Steve Miner
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The move into the third dimension had been experimented with in cinemas long before Jason picked up that hockey mask. The 1950’s was the golden age of this technology with Andre de Toth’s House of Wax (1953) heralding a wave of, mostly, horror films to the 3D screen. William Castle, long an exponent of the…
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The screen transitions from darkness to a nighttime suburban street. A little girl named Jessie sings ‘Incy Wincy Spider’, one foot in the flooded gutter, the other on the pavement before she is called in by her mother. Moments later, a Hitchcockian violin stab screeches in time to an adult pair of boots splashing violently…
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I’m not crazy, okay? Just… don’t forget that as we go on here. I mean, I’m nuts for Jason Movies, but that’s allowable, right? They are good-to-great movies! Well… okay-to-great. All right, they are sucky-to-great. I know, I know. Jason Goes To Hell still exists. More on that one later, though, because it’s about to…
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Recently I had the pleasure to sit down with 25YL staff members Bronson West, Sean Parker, Brendan Jesus, Robert Chipman and Justin Drabek to discuss the Friday the 13th franchise. This was a really fun, in-depth conversation where we talked about the best and worst films from the series, kills, how it compares to other…