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Friday the 13th Part 2

When compared to the first films of other iconic horror franchises like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Scream, I feel like the original Friday the 13th film was always lacking something. And after watching it recently, I’ve realized that’s because of its lack of an interesting main character. Don’t get me wrong, Alice is nice and a pretty likable character we get to follow, but nothing makes her standout particularly from the other cast of characters. That’s why I feel like Annie should’ve been our main protagonist.

I mean, she’s the first character we’re introduced to after the opening credit, and once her journey ends at like the 20-minute mark, the movie feels like a compilation of scenes where the characters are just dicking around rather than there being an actual story. Even after they encounter Crazy Ralph hiding in the pantry, the characters do nothing with his warning, or even try to find info on what he’s talking about.

But imagine how much more engaging it would’ve been if the film followed Annie through until she made it to the camp. She could’ve relayed all the info and warnings she got to the other counselors even though she was skeptical about it herself. But after encountering Ralph for the second time at the camp, she would probably at least start to get curious about what the heck happened at this camp. The other counselors would also start to wanna get answers too, but since Steve was in town, this would cause them to try and look for answers themselves.

Also, Annie just had so much more charisma and spunk to her than Alice did, even with the little screentime she got. I’m not sure if Annie’s death was meant to be reference to ‘Psycho’ with the fakeout main character, but I just think the film would’ve benefited more if we followed her throughout the film. The first Friday the 13th film had somewhat of an element of mystery to it, because we as the audience wanna know what the hell happened at this camp. But the lack of urgency from our characters really undermines it.

I love the original Friday the 13th film and it’s definitely a classic. I just think it was severely lacking in the story department, which they really do improve on with the immediate sequels. Like imagine how much more impactful it would’ve been to have followed Annie throughout the movie, trying to find out as much as possible through newspaper clippings and stuff, and then she starts to put all the pieces together right in time for Ms. Voorhees to make her entrance. You could still have Pamela do her whole exposition dump, but it wouldn’t need to be as tedious since Annie would already have known about the situation but not the specifics.

My favorite designs are:

Michael Myers - Halloween Kills

Jason Voorhees- Friday the 13th 2009

Freddy krueger - Part 2 Freddy's Revenge

Chucky - Child's Play 2

Leatherface- OG 1974

Ghostface - Scream 6

As much as I do not like this movie and do not count it as Canon despite what the director says. I just have to ask this question. In the scene where "Jason" goes up his dead sister's cooch to resurrect how exactly does he resurrect? It cuts away and then Steven asks if it has to be a living one in Duke says no. And then Jason pops up through the floorboards fully formed mask still sunk into his face and the same clothes.

Ignoring the fact that he still looks like an undead zombie and the mask is still sunken to his face and somehow his blown up clothes are healed and reappeared on his body, ignoring all of that. What exactly happened down there how does the resurrection process work? All we know is that it needs to be a Voorhees woman and we see the worm go up the couch. So what the hell happens? Well I have a few ideas.

1. Jason reforms in her womb and his birth out as a little baby and then immediately grows up to full size within the matter of minutes.

2. The sister's body literally turns into Jason morphing and shapeshifting into Jason's form and then the mask and the clothes magically appear on her and then jump up through the floorboards fully turned into Jason.

3. He explodes out of her womb like the xenomorph possibly starting out small and growing the full size quickly or the womb explodes because he grew to full size while inside and the body just couldn't take it and just popped!

So there's the possible explanations for what could have actually happened in the movie as the director and everyone behind it intended. But I have an explanation that only works with my head Canon which is why I didn't put it as an option but I'm going to explain it.

So my idea is when he possessed the mortician the body of Jason was also stolen cuz the news report at the beginning says the body went missing if I remember correctly. What if like Jessica's mother Jason's body was also stored in the house possibly in the basement somewhere near where her body fell. And as soon as the worm went up her couch it possessed her body and controlled her like a puppet basically in order to get her to Jason's body and bleed onto it which completed some sort of ritual possibly something to do with the necronomicon that allowed Jason to heal back and come back and now with explosion immunity. Now my head Canon says that that worm is not Jason and it's just some kind of demon parasite that's been latched on to Jason and is doing all this in order to get its perfect host back. Duke thinking that worm was Jason started thinking Jason is just a body Hopper when he's not. And at the end when Jessica stabbed the knife in it only temporarily stopped Jason but did kill that demon. This demon probably found itself latched to Jason thanks to his mom possibly trying to resurrect him with the necronomicon which is why it was in the house but possibly because she didn't see results right away she assumed it didn't work and that's why she never knew Jason was back. And this blood ritual I made for this head Canon could also be something from the necronomicon.

Now whether or not that means this demon is a deadite and it is connected to the evil Dead that doesn't matter, the necronomicon existed before evil Dead and some sources say the director was just reusing props not trying to connect evil Dead to it, but it would be kool if that was the case so I guess go with it if you want to. But this could just be some other demon because the necronomicon is just a hell book in general not just a deadite book.

So yeah, what possible explanation do you think it is? Do you think it could be one of the three I listed or you could possibly just go with my personal headcanon it's free to take. Anyway I made this post right before bed so good night y'all.

A collage of moments and characters from da movie I made last year in October :) Love this movie, flaws and all

I enjoyed these and realized all of the scores on Rotten Tomatoes are above 80% which i think is deserved, but it has me curious on want some other horror movies are doing wrong?

It sucks none of these have sequels besides Happy Death Day, I'd want to see a Totally Killer 2 as a continuation. They're all fun entertaining slashers.

I guess because it doesn't put too much pressure to have huge horrorific scenes.

Love the 70s/80s greats. Peace friends.

I don't know if you've noticed, but almost the entire Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise (excluding the 2003 remake and its prequel) consists of films whose continuity only considers the first movie. Basically, they're all "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," and even the 2017 Leatherface movie is a prequel whose continuity only takes the first film into account. Therefore, the 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the only canon film in the entire franchise