![]() We’ll come back to all not appearing quite as it seems here shortly, but it plays the part too, with you dishing out his trademark violence across a relentless gore-fest, the likes of which I’m not sure we’d ever seen at the time again, we’ll come back to that! Given the unintended horror-show that was the actual Friday the 13th game we’d had on Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1985 – as well as the one that wasn’t far behind on NES – it’s all sounding pretty marvellous so far though, even if Jason does quickly turn out to not be Jason at all… Kind of! And that hockey mask is just so iconic too, which is as good a place as any to jump over to Splatterhouse!Īt first glance, everything about the original 1988 Splatterhouse Namco arcade game screams Friday the 13th and full-on Jason Vorhees, from the look and feel of the promotional artwork to the hockey-masked main character sprite in the game itself. This one’s interesting because it was originally planned to have been shot of Jason and have Tommy turn bad guy instead, but everyone hated New Beginning so much they changed their minds and went full on supernatural with Jason instead! I might not be sure about favourite Friday the 13th yet (although this one’s definitely in with a shout!), but I can be sure that Jason Vorhees will take some beating as my favourite slasher! No words, just unstoppable force and endless creativity with a machete. Unfortunately he resurrects him instead, when the fence post he’s using to stake him turns lightning conductor, and the resulting Frankenstein-action prompts another return to Crystal Lake for a fresh piece of massacre. I did the same for Halloween recently, including the brand new Halloween Kills (which was also my first visit to a cinema since the second new Star Wars sequel, The Last Jedi), finally landing on the original 1978 movie, but closely followed by its distantly-related sequel Halloween III: Season of the Witch.Īnyway, 1986’s Jason Lives picks up the action from the year before’s previous instalment, A New Beginning, with that one’s protagonist, Tommy Jarvis, heading back to the scene of the crime to dig up Jason, destroy his body and put an end to his hockey mask nightmares. You join me as I’m watching Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, part of an ongoing project involving watching the whole series, offshoots like Freddy vs Jason and more recent reboots, in a bid to decide which of them is my favourite! And by the end of this piece, dear reader, as well as having accompanied me on a journey of discovery through Splatterhouse 2, I’m hoping to have an answer for you! Actually, it’s really just an excuse to watch them all again.
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