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“Friday The 13th Part 3” (1982) – Watch out or Jason will poke your eye out

Three dimensional film effects highlight the hijinx in the continuing adventures of slasher Jason Vorhees. The filmmakers trot out a new batch of interchangeable teen characters and proceed to have Jason creatively dispatch them in novel ways. It all becomes tedious and nauseating before long as objects like spears and knives thrust into the camera on their way to impaling and destroying said teens.

Jason himself receives a machete to the cranium but never fear, he cannot die and his useless spirit continues on for at least seven more film adventures. Similar in nature to the “Halloween” franchise that lumbers on to this day with its equally unstoppable central character.

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002) – The Michael Myers Pandemic

If you thought the COVID-19 pandemic was bad, think about the never ending plague of remakes and redoes about the immortal movie killing machine Michael Myers. In “Resurrection”, there is a group, ultimately Myers’ victims (duh!), who win a contest to appear on an live Internet broadcast that takes place at Michael’s old home. The visitors are equipped with body cameras and there are other cameras setup around the place by the producer’s of the show to capture the action. It isn’t long before the murderous mayhem begins. At this stage of the “Halloween” movie cycle, this is the eighth film, the viewer had pretty much seen all the butchery and Michael rising from his apparent grave after surely being killed (again) before. This is more of the same: characters you can care less about stack up in a corner as Michael mows them down. Think of this as the Zoom call from Hell.