Friday the 13th Analysis Overview

As I play The Man Behind the Mask and the Friday the 13th (1980) end credits theme, I can't help but reminisce on this whole analysis. This analysis took everything I had. It took a long time and by the end I got so busy with school that the analysis was pushed aside to focus on finishing up college, but I've gotta tell you guys, this analysis was truly a passion project for me and I'm so grateful that I did it and I'm overjoyed to see that some of you have stuck with it the entire time. I've learned so much about analysis and writing critiques through this gigantic analysis. When I look back on the Tremors reviews, I cringe because they are so poorly written in comparison. I've also learned that to truly stand out from the crowd, you have to do something unique with your analysis. In my experience, and I've been a horror fan for over half of my life now, every horror fan that voices their opinions of franchises does a Friday the 13th franchise analysis, but most of them would skip over the TV series, and of those I had never found one that did an episode by episode analysis. This helped my analysis stand out for you readers out there, and I've gotta tell you, even through the terrible episodes and movies, I've enjoyed every single minute of this analysis. I can't make this clear enough to you, I LOVE Friday the 13th! I ADORE the original film, I love the franchise, the comic books, the TV series, the alternate cuts...I love it all. Friday the 13th is a huge part of my life. I can honestly say that I've never spent this much time analyzing any franchise before. I wanted to give a special shout out to some people associated with the franchise: thank you Sean Cunningham for an astounding rip off movie that amazingly turned out to be a better product than the film it knocked off, thank you Adrienne King for being the best final girl I have ever seen, thank you Betsy Palmer for being the most extraordinary female killer in cinematic history, thank you Steve Minor for continuing the franchise by making Jason the primary killer and giving him the iconic hockey mask, thank you Frank Mancuso, Jr. for continuing the film franchise for many years at Paramount and for bringing the beloved series to TV, thank you Corey Feldman for being in more than one entry, even if only for a dream sequence in A New Beginning, thank you Robey for being in nearly every episode of The Series, thank you John D. LeMay for being in both The Series and the movie franchise, thank you Bob Shaye for picking up the franchise when Paramount dropped it, the New Line products weren't the best, but it kept the franchise alive for another two decades, thank you Kane Hodder for not only playing Jason once, but four consecutive times, you are truly the ultimate Jason actor, thank you Jeff Katz for finishing the Freddy Vs. Jason storyline and giving a solid conclusion to the original franchise, thank you Michael Bay for making a remake that didn't suck, that paid homage to the original, but made it's own identity, thank you Peter Bracke for writing about this amazing franchise in the Crystal Lake Memories book, thank you Daniel Farrends and company for turning that book into a documentary, but most of all thank you, the readers, the fans of Friday the 13th, for sticking with me and geeking out over the various incarnations of this extraordinary franchise. It's so sad to see this end...I feel so accomplished, but in many ways, I feel like this is a goodbye to Friday the 13th. I don't think my love for Friday the 13th will ever die as long as I'm on Earth, but it may take a few years before I rewatch an entry. I love my readers so much! You guys are the best! Please continue to support horror film analyses! Honestly, it'll be about a month and a half before I can post again, but I'll be back with another, smaller, franchise analysis. Next franchise analysis: Leprechaun to commemorate the 20th anniversary

Friday the 13th (2009) Killer Cut Review

The Killer Cut of the Friday the 13th 2009 film is astounding in this fact: 9 minutes and 46 seconds are added back into the film, but none of the changes were noticeable upon first viewing, it simply felt like the same movie. I'll be honest guys, I had to look up the differences on a movie comparison website. This is the Friday film I definitely know the least also, but here it goes: the biggest changes are that we see Jason see his mother killed and pick up the machete, there's a new scene between Jenna and Clay when they first enter the campground, and there's an alternative storyline involving Whitney who in the Killer Cut actually gets herself out of the handcuffs that she's chained to for over half of the picture, she gets out of the underground and runs to the window where Trent and Bree are having sex, but Jason grabs her before they even notice that she's there. Aside from that we have alternate shots of various nudity and various violent scenes. A good number of scenes have extended violence. Honestly, guys, I don't know what to tell you with this one. This is a tough one. The theatrical cut is definitely harder to view because of how the blu ray is encoded, but just because it's harder to find doesn't mean it's better...I'd say the better cut is the Killer Cut. The added moments didn't really add anything, but unlike the original's uncut version, it didn't detract from the impact of the film either. I'd watch both versions of the 2009 film at any time, but if you had to choose one, watch the Killer Cut.