From a distance, Jason X may look like the campiest and most cynical exercise in the entire Friday the 13th franchise but in many ways it takes the spatial explorations of [...]

Bad blockbusters aren’t what they used to be. As cinema becomes less and less viable as an investment, executive producers and movie companies seem less and less willing [...]

In the wake of Jason Lives, the Friday the 13th franchise started to move in three different but complementary directions. Firstly, there was a movement towards a more [...]

It may sound like a strange thing to say but it is only in 1989, with Jason Takes Manhattan, that it feels as if the Friday the 13th franchise has really reached the 1980s. [...]

In many ways, the extraordinary image that concluded Friday the 13th Part 6 – Jason chained to the bottom of Camp Crystal Lake but very much alive – was to be a blueprint [...]

A Month of Sundays is a strange, small-scale Australian film featuring Anthony LaPaglia as Frank Mollard, a real estate agent who has struggled to connect with his estranged [...]

If Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning was starting to grasp towards a new melange of slapstick, screwball and suspense, then Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives is the [...]

Friday the 13th Part 5 is the first film in the franchise that doesn’t open with an extended flashback. While there is a very brief precis of Parts 1-4 before the credits [...]

You can tell a lot about each instalment of Friday the 13th from the way it recaps the previous film. For the first time, The Final Chapter recaps every film so far into a [...]

From the very outset, Zack Snyder’s attempt to revive Batman (Ben Affleck), Superman (Henry Cavill) and the DC universe was going to be a challenge. First and foremost, his [...]