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Kane Hodder was cursed with starring in the worst Friday movies

posted 8 years ago by al666940-3
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While he's widely acclaimed as the best Jason (runner-up would be C.J.Graham from Jason Lives), he also had the really bad luck of coming in when the franchise was running on fumes.

Wasn't supposed to be that way.

This was supposed to be the epic Freddy Vs. Jason movie (why Jason in Part 6 was chained and literally kept in storage until released).

But it didn't happen at that point.

And thus they had to come up with other stories, and they ended up being 100% filler.

Seriously, the ONLY good thing about these latter movies is Hodder. And the makeup and FX on this one (the latter ones don't even have that).

[–] FridayOnElmStreet 8 years ago

Personally I think he did two of the best.

[–] ShallowAl69 8 years ago

Ditto

[–] bishop-69757 8 years ago

The New Blood is the most entertaining movie in the whole series and Jason becomes truly iconic. The early films had a more serious tone but they were just a poor mans Halloween.

[–] kmags84 8 years ago

The first 3(I'd probably add 4 too, but to a lesser extent) were more grounded. The middle 4-6(Again, 4 to a lesser extent) didn't know what they wanted to be. They were uneven, although I really enjoy them. What 7 did right, especially by using Kane Hodder, they finally went all out. If you're gonna use "Zombie Jason", just go all out... And 7 started that. I love what Hodder brought. I personally prefer 1-3. The atmosphere on the original is fantastic, it's something that was done right. I used to go camping with my family, we shared an old Cottage, run down, it had old appliances, thick woods, the Whole Nine Yards... Part 1 had all of that. When the films went to Cali, it lost any feel of the Northeast. Georgia and Alabama were OK but Canada was the best Stand-in. And again, the later films brought that back. For me, that's CRUCIAL. I have a certain spot in my love of Cinema and the Horror Genre for "Zombie Jason", because I was a kid when those came out and he terrified me. I have 3 older brothers and they tortured me lol... Part 7 started that.