Really Awful Movies

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

A fun directional pivot for the series, and the first appearance of Kane Hodder as the man behind the mask, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, is truth in title and a fun double entendre. New (or fresh) blood: new members admitted to a group, typically as an invigorating force. There aren’t manyContinue reading “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood”

Get Out

Get Out can’t get out of its own way, stumbling from outstanding in-group out-group frights to Phantasm body-snatcher silliness. With an opener depicting upper-crust suburbia as terrifyingly as the original Halloween, a random African American man is suddenly murdered walking through a gated community. The tension is agonizing, compounded by teeth-chattering musical accompaniment. Shifting gearsContinue reading “Get Out”