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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan 1989
"I got these from the game room."
*Drops a pile of guns and axes*A so-bad-it's-good slasher. Jason randomly hitches a ride on a budget New Jersey cruise ship that looks like a scaled-up tug boat but also features a disco room, shuffleboard, and skeet shooting. Instead of camp counselors, there's a graduating class of seniors aboard, with a seemingly random collection of group activities to partake in, from full-on boxing matches to the occasional hit of cocaine. While the…
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood 1988
By this point, how the hell have so many people who live on this lake not heard of the local serial killer? The last film took place three months before this one, it's hardly ancient history.
What a bizarre direction to take the franchise in, introducing a random new character who just so happens to have telekinetic powers. After the self-aware humor of Part VI, Friday the 13th quickly returns to business as usual, trying to create some random gimmick…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987
I keep reading that title as 'Dream Weaver'. It makes me think that I'm going to hear Gary Wright's keyboard on the soundtrack at some point.
Feels like Stephen King's IT meets The Matrix, as a team of misfit teens confront a mind-bending Freddy Krueger by gaining power in a fantasy world. Dream Warriors is a return to form compared to the more mild Part 2, expanding on Freddy's powers both literally and as a means of permanently scarring his…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge 1985
A teenage boy discovers a new part of his identity when he lets an older man inside of him. That's right, this is basically Call Me By Your Name.
Not sure why this film was called 'Freddy's Revenge' - he targets completely different people that just so happen to live in the same house. It's easy to understand why contemporary critics thought that Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 was a step down from the original, given that the story…
