When you’ve gotta make a new sequel every year, you tend to get some strange shifts in popular horror franchises. Listen on to learn about a Halloween without Michael Myers, a Nightmare on Elm Street where the movies exist, Jason… in space, and much more!
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“Credit” to Halloween for going weird by the third film, most have to wait for a least 5+. This should be interesting!
The weirdest Horror sequel I can think of it “The Bogus Witch Project” IDK what the directors were thinking I mean Pauly Shore TOTALLY kills any horror or believeability it feels like a horrendous comedy or something.
Cult of Chucky was okay…and Curse was framed as a reboot…but it is part of the Chucky-verse.
Purge Election Year was kind of cool
The urban legend line of movies does this, with the second one revealing that the first movie was just a film School product of the main actress. And the third going out right magical paranormal
Ive been meaning to check that first one out
Dave sounds like an unhinged lunatic in parts of this episode, and I love it. Every time I’m tempted to roll my eyes too hard at his froth-mouthed excoriations of Jason X or the ending to 10 Cloverfield Lane, I remember that that’s exactly how I sound when I decry the bad apples in The Twilight Zone episode list, or Alien: Resurrection.
Passion recognizes passion. Rant away, you slavering madman.
Jason x is far from the worst
That moment in jason x is great get off it dave, its a fun movie compared to other bores in the series
I love Jason X, such a fun romp. I don’t have the same attachment to Friday the 13th as I do the other horror franchises. I just remember seeing Jason X in a packed theather opening weekend with a raucous crowd.
For my money, Jason X is actually pretty fun, and I love the series. I’d say 8 is the worst one; we’re advertised JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, but we spend 2/3 of the movie on a boat, and then the “actual” New York stuff is mostly Vancouver alleyways and the fucking sewers.
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Dave’s mention of Jason Goes to Hell’s weirdness made me think of another weird (read: bad) trend in horror sequels – piling in unnecessary backstory that was never there before. Jason Goes to Hell tells us that Jason has a sister and niece, and only a Voorhees can kill him. Halloween 5 & 6 tell us that Michael Myers is actually inflicted with the CURSE OF THE THORN or some crap. And even Freddy’s Dead tells us that Freddy had a secret daughter who again is key to defeating him. Nothing scarier than over-explaining mystery villains to the point of them being way too fleshed out (especially in the case of Michael).