His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th Review

 

The Friday the 13th franchise is very dear to my heart.  I saw the first film when I was very young, and from that point on I was addicted.  I loved going to the theatre on opening night to watch Jason hack and slash his way through horny campers.  By my mid-teens I started began a ritual that lives on today.  I would watch every film in the franchise that I could get on VHS.  I still honor this ritual, only now I watch the flicks on DVD, and if one of the flicks themselves happens to be opening on the big screen I do my best to catch it. 

So when I heard about His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th I made plans to pick up the DVD as soon as it was released.  Fortunately I was able to watch the flick at a friend’s house before I got the chance to pick up my own copy, because even though I’m a fan of the films I didn’t enjoy this predictable advertisement for the upcoming reboot DVDs and theatrical remake.  Don’t get me wrong there are a few nuggets of information that were interesting, and seeing all the cast members talk about the film was pretty awesome as well.  But there was one thing that I couldn’t overlook, something that hurt the documentary so much that by the half hour mark I was ready to fast forward to the end credits just so I didn’t have endure another minute.  That something was Tom Savini.  That’s right horror fans, the FX master himself was so irritating that I decided to turn his appearances in the flick into a drinking game.  If I saw Tom and his acting was bad, I took a drink.  If I saw Tom and he was irritating I took a drink, and if I saw Tom and I couldn’t help but press the fast forward button I took a drink.  By the end of the flick I was pretty liquored up.

Any fan of the Friday the 13th movies is going to find this flick mildly entertaining, but those same fans probably already know a lot of information this flick is peddling.  Friday the 13th is a killer series, but His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th misses the mark.

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Donny Broussard

I enjoy the types of films that used to dominate late night television in the '80s, spending time with my family, filmmaking, photography, Rubik's Cubes, Diet Pepsi, building old Shogun Warriors model kits, Canon cameras, comic books, AOR, coconut ice cream, mac & cheese, cold pizza, popcorn, nachos, UL Football tailgating, film festivals, reading, Barry Manilow (don't ask), films with both Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in them, Alf, Pac Man, 1979 Trans AMs, beer, Godzilla, Hooters (both the restaurant and ones girls like to keep hidden), and Bigfoot (he's real). I'm just saying.

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