In this special edition of Rewind of the Living Dead, we look back at “Friday the 13th: Part VII: The New Blood where Jason Voorhees finally met his match…
In 1986, The Friday the 13th franchise found itself at a crossroads. After six films and hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, the once feared hockey-masked killer was starting to wane with audiences.
Friday producer Frank Mancuso Jr. even teased the idea of Jason battling his box office nemesis, Freddy, to catch some of the attention his slasher foe had garnered. It was producer Barbara Sachs who finally posited the idea that it was time to elevate the series, even suggesting making a film worthy of an academy award, with talks of famed Italian director Federico Fellini being brought on board.
They ultimately settled on genre director John Carl Beuchler who took a script that pitted Jason against a Carrie-like character with telekinetic powers.
This would forever change the franchise from a man in the woods, to a monster of mythic proportions. Lar Park Lincoln would star as Tina, a young woman returning to the site of a family tragedy, where she accidentally resurrects the most fabled killer in Crystal Lake from the dead, and introduces the world to the most prolific actor to ever don the mask…
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re gonna break out the pearl necklaces and our resurrect our dead dads, as review the 19888 classic, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
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