Friday the 13th countdown

This is my countdown of the friday the 13th franchise

12) Friday The 13TH Part 7: The New Blood

Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the hulking killer Jason Vorhees returns to the camp grounds when he's released accidently by a teenager with psychic powers.

11) Jason goes to hell: The final friday

The secret of Jason's evil is revealed. It is up to the last remaining descendant of the Voorhees family to stop Jason before he becomes immortal and unstoppable. This is the final battle to end Jason's reign of terror forever.

10) Friday the 13TH part 4: The final chapter 

  After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Crystal Lake.

9) Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason takes Manhattan

A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask. 

8) Friday the 13TH part 5:  A new beginning

10 years after killing Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis has grown up in various mental hospitals unable to get over the nightmares about Jason's return. When Tommy is sent to a rural halfway house in California for mentally disturbed teenagers, a series of grisly murders begin anew as another hockey-masked killer begins killing off all people at and around the residence. Has Jason returned from the dead to re-start his killing spree? Has Tommy decided to take over the reign of Jason, or has someone else?  

7)  Friday the 13th part 2

Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the imfamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason who didn't drown in the lake some 30 years before? 

6) Friday the 13th part 3: 3D

Jason, having barely survived a blow to his shoulder from his own machete, is back to revenge on all that visit "his" woods. A new group of friends come over to party at an area close to the campsite. This time, Jason will be stronger than ever, and getting a hockey mask from one of those friends.

5) Freddy VS Jason

It's been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger terrorized people in the dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory. Freddy still has one more plan on getting back to Elm Street. He resurrects Jason Voorhees and sends him off to kill. The more bodies which fall to the ground, the stronger in which Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realizes that Jason isn't going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself. 

4) Friday the 13th part 6: Jason lives

Tommy goes to a graveyard to get rid of Jason's body, but he accidentally brings him back to life. Jason wants revenge! Tommy must defeat Jason once and for all! 

Friday the 13th Part 1

Tommy goes to a graveyard to get rid of Jason's body, but he accidentally brings him back to life. Jason wants revenge! Tommy must defeat Jason once and for all! 

2) Friday the 13th

A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover. Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all.

1) Jason X

Set way in the future, Earth is no longer inhabitable, so humans have colonized in outer space. One colony receives two cryogenically frozen bodies, and when they defrost them, one of the bodies turns out to be.....who else? Jason Voorhees. No longer in the forest or Camp Crystal Lake, Jason stalks the colonists in a whole new environment. 

 

The Evil Dead Review

The Evil Dead

Year: 1981

Directer: Sam Raimi

Writer: Sam Raimi

Characters:

Ashley J. Williams (AKA - Ash) portrayed by Bruce Campbell, he is the boyfriend of Linda, and works at S-Mart, he is the main hero in the movie and has to fight his friends and girlfriend to stay alive.

Cheryl Williams, portrayed by Ellen Sandweiss, She is Ash's younger Sister, she is the odd one out of the group and could sense that something evil is in the woods, she is the first to be possessed by the Deadites and acts as the main antagonist of the film.

Linda, Portrayed by Betsy Baker, Linda is Ash's girlfriend they are both very much in love, Ash gives her a necklace early on in the film and is forced to fight her to stay alive.

Scotty, Portrayed by Richard DeManicor, Scotty is Ash's best friend and college room mate, he is Shelly's boyfriend, and is known for being quite the joker, but he soon realises that there is nothing to joke about when Shelly is killed

Shelly, Portrayed by Theresa Tilly, she is quite the airhead, and doesn't really do much, she doesn't realise whats going on and doesn't really live long enough to figure it out.

Plot

Ash and his friends take a trip to a remote cabin in the woods, where they find an old tape recorder and a strange book (Book Of The Dead - "AKA" Necronomicon Ex-Mortis) hidden in the cellar.

After playing the tape that was left in the tape recorder, all hell breaks loose and the Deadites start possessing anyone they can.

Ash and his friends must fight to survive the night, however it becomes near impossible when Ash is the only man standing and his friends are all Deadites that cannot be killed.....

Production

The Short film Within The Woods was made as a Prototype to try and bring in investors to fund The Evil Dead, they used it as a learning curve to experiment with different filming techniques that they would later use in The Evil Dead, it stars Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss who also starred in The Evil Dead

Raimi managed to secure a small budget of $350,000 - $400,000 and with his cast and crew he headed to a small cabin in some woods near Morris town, Tennessee.
When they got to the Cabin they found it was in a complete mess, and had to have a complete make over and some parts of the cabin had to be rebuilt and extended.

The movie took about a year and a half to finish shooting, and raimi was forced to use 'Fake Shemps' or 'stand ins'  to replace the actors who had left the shooting over the period of time, One of the only actors Loyal from Beginning of the shooting to the end was Bruce Campbell, who was also a Producer of the movie, and Raimi's childhood friend.

Bruce Campbell went through many torturous circumstances as the character Ash, he later stated on the Evil Dead DVD special features, that he would return home some nights in the back of a pick-up-truck covered head to toe in fake blood which was made from a mixture of corn syrup, food colouring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

After filming had finished Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell had to re shoot some shots in Sam Raimi's Basement to get the right shot for the movie.

Review

Sam Raimi said that this movie was a less than perfect first attempt at making the movie he really wanted people to see, but due to budget restrictions he had to make do, and that is why he made The Evil Dead 2, but for me this movie is perfect in every way.

The acting was first class as usual from Bruce Campbell, and you could see how much effort was put into the filming whilst you watch it.

Raimi used many different camera techniques during the shooting process from strapping a camera to a plank of wood and running through the woods with it or boating over the lake with the camera to give a smooth camera action and as much atmosphere as possible, but for me the best camera work was the Stop Motion technique used for the decaying Deadites at the end of the movie.

Sam Raimi stated in an interview that he wishes he never filmed the Tree Rape scene, alot of people thought it was degrading and it was the main reason for its label as a video nasty in the 1980s, but i thought the scene was done to a dignified standard and without it the movie would never have been the same as it gave it a raw Oh My God!! anything can happen feeling and you just dreaded what was the come next.

I feel the budget was used perfectly and you could see that it was used wisely, by putting most big budget horror movies to shame, even today's standards of horror movies that cost $10,000,000 do not stand up to the standard of The Evil Dead.

The Evil Dead is considered one of the greatest and scariest horror movies of all time and i cant agree more, i think it is possibly the scariest movie i have ever seen, i first watched the movie when i was only 10-11years old and have many fond memory's of hiding behind my cushion when i was scared haha, even now i would still consider it to be the scariest movie i have ever seen, and it would take something very special to be out done.

Home Media

The Evil Dead special edition

Disc 1: The Evil Dead,

            Theatrical Trailer

            Still & Photo gallery

            Behind the scenes footage & Outtakes

The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition)

Disc1: The Evil Dead

           Theatrical Trailer

           4 TV Spots

           Poster and Still Gallery

           Talent Bios

           Fanalysis Documentary

           Discovering Evil Dead featurette

           Behind The Scenes Footage and Outtakes

Evil Dead Trilogy

Disc 1: The Evil Dead

            Theatrical Trailer

            4 TV Spots

            Poster and Still Gallery

            Talent Bios

            Fanalysis Documentary

            Discovering Evil Dead featurette

            Behind the Scenes footage and Outtakes

            THX Optimizer

Disc 2: Evil Dead 2

           Theatrical Trailer

           The Gore The Merrier featurette

Disc 3: Army Of Darkness (Director's Cut)

           4 Deleted Scenes

           The Creature Concept Art

           Director's Storyboards

Disc 4: The Evil Dead

            The Living Love the Dead

            Dead Good Marketing Featurette

            Bruce Campbell: Geek or God? featurette

            The Incredibly Strange Film Show

            Antihero - Evil Dead Inspired Music Video

The Evil Dead (Ultimate Edition)

Disc 1: The Evil Dead

            One by One We Will Take you: The Untold Saga Of The Evil Dead

Disc 2: The Evil Dead

            The Evil Dead: Treasures From The Cutting Room Floor

Disc 3: Life After Death: The Ladies Of The Evil Dead
           The Ladies Of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell
           Discovering The Evil Dead
           At The Drive-In
           TV Spots
           Reunion Panel
           Still Gallery
           Unconventional
           Make-up Test
           Poster & Memorabilia Gallery Trailers

 The Evil Dead - The Treasures Collection

Disc 1: The Evil Dead

            'Book Of The Dead' to 'The Evil Dead' - The version differences. 

            Within The Woods, a superior quality copy
            Book Of The Dead work print trailer
            PC viewable Evil Dead DVD-ROM folder 

 The Evil Dead BLU-RAY

Disc1: The Evil Dead

           One By One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead

           The Ladies Of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell

           At The Drive In

           Poster and Photo Gallery

           Trailers

Rating: 10/10

         Good Points 

• Very scary movie
• Awesome Plot
• First class acting
• Amazing camera work
• Awesome special effects and stop motion

         Bad Points

There is nothing bad about this movie it is perfect.

TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES FROM THE 1980s

This is a personal list of my top 10 favourite horror movies from the 1980s

10) Rawhead Rex 

Year: 1986

Director: George Pavlou

Staring: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Niall Toibin

A small town in Ireland will be changed forever, after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex, as he causes a massacre and mass panic across the country side, while a man with nothing left to lose struggles to stop it.

9) Hellraiser 

Year: 1987

Directer: Clive Barker

Staring: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence

Clive Barker's directing debut graphically tells the story of Larry and his wife Julia who move into an old house,  the man's half-brother Frank, who is also Julia's former lover hiding upstairs. Having opened a mysterious box, he unleashed the demons within it and lost his earthly body to the Cenobite's, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor, after Larry cuts his hand on a rusty nail. He soon forces his former mistress Julia to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body, but Larrys daughter Kirsty finds out and trys to stop them by opening the box and unleashing the Cenobits once again. 

 8  Halloween 2

Year: 1981

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers

The Story picks up were Halloween finished, on the same night as the original Halloween. Michael Myers is around the neighborhood, after being shot by Dr.Loomis six times. Now, he's in a hospital where the girl Laurie Strode was taken. And he wont stop untill he has killed her...

7) Prince Of Darkness

Year: 1987

Directer: John Carpenter

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker

A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious cult, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Satan himself! The liquid later comes to life, turning anyone who touchs it into Zombies, in a bid to open the gates of hell....

6) Aliens

Year: 1986

Directer: James Cameron

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn

Fifty years after Ellen Ripley survived her frightening ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. however, when all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of Colonial marines on a rescue mission on the planet to find out if Ripley was telling the truth about the aliens and rescue any survivors. As the mission goes horribly wrong, Ripley is forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, and soon realises that her nightmares have only just began....

5) The Fog

Year: 1980

Directer: John Carpenter

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Adrienne Barbeau

The 100th anniversary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to get revenge on the desendants of those who mudered them, Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.

4) A Nightmare On Elm Street

Year: 1984

Directer: Wes Craven

Starring: Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp

Nancy Thompson and her friends, Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must try to stay awake, as Freddy begins to kill off all her friends one by one in their dreams.

Nancy and her boyfriend try to think of a way to stop Freddy before its their turn to be killed. 

3) Phantasm 2

Year: 1988

Directer: Don Coscarelli

Starring: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm

Mike and Reggie are back and ready to kill The Tall Man, after Mike is released from a hospital Reggie takes him back to his home to stay with his family, but The Tall Man has other ideas for the 2 friends. 

A beautiful young girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams and they form a connection. He can feel that she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can get to her too?

2) The Thing

Year: 1982

Directer: John Carpenter

Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David

An American scientific expedition to the Antarctic is interrupted by a 2 Norwegians in a helicopter pursuing and shooting at a dog. The helicopter blows up and the only surviving Norwegian runs around the american camp shotting his rifle, untill he is shot dead by a member of the american scientific team.

During the night, the dog mutates in a horrible looking thing and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to duplicate any living organism is on the loose and they don't know who is them selfs or who is THE THING.... 

1) The Evil Dead

Year: 1981

Directer: Sam Raimi

Starring, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly

Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods for a break, where they find a tome called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and the taped translation of the text, once the tape is played, it unleashes an unspeakable evil within the forest. One by one, the teens are possessed. With only one remaining, Ashley J. Williams, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

TOP 10 SEQUELS

This is a personal list of my

TOP 10 HORROR SEQUELS

10: Hellraiser 2 Hellbound

Year: 1988

Director: Tony Randel

Actors: Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence & Imogen Boorman

Running Time: 97 Min

Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again. 

9: Jason X

Year: 2001

Director: James Isaac

Actors: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig & Lisa Ryder

Running Time: 91 Min

Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century.

8: Friday The 13TH Part 6

Year: 1986

Director: Tom McLoughlin

Actors: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke & David Kagen

Running Time: 86 Min

Tommy goes to a graveyard to get rid of Jason's body, but he accidentally brings him back to life. Jason wants revenge! Tommy must defeat Jason once and for all! 

7: Blade 2

Year: 2002

Director: Guillermo Del Toro

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ron Perlman & Kris Kristofferson

Running Time: 117 Min

 Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires.

6: A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 Freddys Revenge

Year: 1985

Director: Jack Sholder

Actors: Robert Englund, Mark Patton & Kim Myers

Running Time: 87 Min

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world. 

5: Evil Dead 2

Year: 1987

Director: Sam Raimi

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry & Dan Hicks

Running Time: 84 Min

The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. 

4: Halloween 2

Year 1981

Director: Rick Rosenthal

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence & Charles Cyphers

Running Time: 92 Min

Laurie Strode is rushed to the hospital, while Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt the streets for Michael Myers, who has found Laurie at the Haddonfield Hospital. 

3: Aliens

Year: 1986

Director: James Cameron

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Michael Beihn & Carrie Henn

Running Time: 137 Min

 

The planet from the first Alien movie has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

2: Phantasm 2

Year: 1988

Director: Don Coscarelli

Actors: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm

Running Time: 97 Min

 

Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues his journey to stop the evil Tall Man from his grim work.

Finally The Best Horror Movie Sequel EVER

1: House 2 The Second Story

Year: 1987

Director: Ethan Wiley

Actors: Arye Gross, Johnaphan Stark & Royal Dano

Running Time: 88 Min

The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers. 

TOP 10 WOMEN OF HORROR

This is my personal list of

THE TOP 10 WOMEN OF HORROR

10: Olga Karlatos

 

Olga Karlatos starred in ZOMBI 2 (AKA - Zombie Flesh Eaters) where she plays the beautiful wife of a doctor who ends up trapped on an island over ran by zombies, she has a great shower scene and soon after gets her eye impaled on a big spike.

9: Aleksa Palladino

Aleksa Palladino Starred in the movie Wrong Turn 2, she plays a great part in the movie, and ends up getting an axe thrown at her head. 

8: Kate Beckinsale 

 Kate Beckinsale Stars in the Underwold movies, she plays the main character Selene a vampire who falls in love with Michael and has to protect him against the lycans.

7: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sharah Michelle Gellar starred in Buffy The Vampire Slayer where she plays the main character BUFFY, she also stared in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, The Grudge, The Grudge 2 & The Return.

6: Katheryn Winnick

Katheryn Winnick Starred in the movie Satans Little Helper, its a halloween themed movie, where her family is being terrorised by a maniac in a Halloween Costume, she has some great scenes and looks beautiful throughout the whole movie.

5: Christa Campbell

Christa Campbell Stars in many horror movies, such as, 2001 Maniacs, 2001 Maniacs Field Of Screams, The Wicker Man, Day Of The Dead & Hyenas, she always plays the best roles in her movies and never fails to look great.

4: Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich plays the role of Alice in the Resident Evil franchise, she has some great death scenes, in Resident Evil Afterlife, and she never fails to deliver a great performance.

3: Charisma Carpenter 

Charisma Carpenter starred in Buffy The Vampire Slayer & its spin off tv show Angel, she has also stared in a few horror movies such as, Voodoo Moon, Psychosis & one of my favourite movies House Of Bones, she is one of the most beautiful actress's around and always delivers a perfect acting role.

2: Amanda Righetti

 Amanda Righetti Plays stars in, Return To House On Haunted Hill & Friday The 13TH reboot, where she plays the role of Whitney Miller, a college studant who is kidnapped by Jason Voorhees because she looks like his mother Pamela Voorhees at a young age, she is one of my favourite actresses, and is easily the best looking women in hollywood.

1: Jamie Lee Curtis

 Jamie Lee Curtis was known as a scream queen because of all the horror movies she has starred in, she is a great actress and has been in some of the best horror movies of all time such as, Halloween, Halloween 2, Halloween H20, Halloween Resurrection, The Fog, Prom Night, Virus & even plays an uncredited role of a phone operator in the movie Halloween 3

MY TOP 10 CHRISTMAS HORROR MOVIES

MY TOP 10 CHISTMAS HORROR MOVIES

These are my hand picked top 10

10: Santa Claws

A young man walks in on his divorced mother having sex with some guy in a Santa hat, He murders them both, Years later he thinks he is Santa Clause, the man becomes obsessed with an erotic horror film actress named Raven and begins stalking her. 

9: Jack Frost

 

 

A serial killer is genetically mutated in a car accident on the way to his execution. After which, he becomes a murdering snowman hell-bent on revenge for the sheriff who arrested him. 

 8: Dont Open Till Christmas

A murderer is on the loose in the streets of London, hunting down men dressed as Santa and slaughtering them all in different and extremely violent ways. Inspector Harris has to take on the unenviable task of tracking down the psychopath, but its not going to be easy. Only Giles, a reporter seems to offer the Inspector any promising leads.

7: Sint

A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5. 

6: Silent Night Deadly Night

A young boy watches his parents being murdered by a thief in a Santa costume. He spends his youth in an orphanage. He gets a job at a local store, where he finally snaps when he is told that he is required to wear a Santa suit, and goes on a killing spree that ends up with him going to the orphanage were he has a killer of a time.

5: Dead End

For the past 20 years, Frank Harrington has driven his family to celebrated Christmas with his mother-in-law. This year, he takes a shortcut. which turns into a nightmare. A mysterious woman in white and her child wander through the forest, leaving death in their wake. A terrifying black car drive away with the victims and leaves their remains in the middle of the road. Every road sign points to a destination they never reach. The survivors start to panic, and go crazy. This year Christmas turns into a living hell.

4: Black Christmas

It's time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the Christmas holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls begin to freak them out. When Clare disappears, they quickly contact the police, but they dont express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but her boyfriend Peter is not doing everything he can to stop that from happening. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they find the killer befor he kills all the sorority girls?

3: Santa's Slay

Bill Goldberg plays Santa Clause who lost a wager with a angel and was forced to spend 1000 years playing good Santa, but now the wager has expired, and good old Santa isn't so joyful anymore. He makes up for lost time and starts to kill people in search for the angel.

2: All Through The House

A greedy woman makes the mistake of murdering her husband while an escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus outfit is on the loose.

1: Gremlins

Little green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous gremlins after gaining a new pet Gismo and violating two of three simple rules: No water, no food after midnight, and no bright light. The Gremlins cause hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. So, next time your washing machine blows up or your TV goes on the fritz, before you call the repair man, turn on all the lights and look under all the beds. 'Cause you never can tell, there just might be a gremlin in your house

I hope you enjoyed my top 10 christmas horror movies

Merry Christmas