Meedyah Morsels #172
Gonna have to retro-link this to Halloween.
Thanks for the bad scheduling, this, and "Doctor Sleep".
Anyhoozlebees...
So, it finally finished last night, and damn, this whole thing was awesome.
It's a 9 hour Jason movie that's better than the entire fucking Jason franchise.
It's the R rated blood and cussing answer to Stranger Things you didn't know you wanted.
Better characters than Jason, better actors, better writing, better everything.
And yet it pulls everything from the Jason mythology.
With a teensy weensy sprinkle of Freddy myth in there.
I mean, not literally, it's not canon, but the rules of how everything works are shit that would happen in those films.
Even really crazy shit that makes you go "no! That breaks the rules!", no, stop, think about it, even that seemingly foolish thing they did is in the canon, they just pull it out more, and deal with the consequences.
It's all there in the films, and all fair game.
Also, they get to use real copyrighted 80's music instead of the cheap filler actual 80's horror movies were stuck using.
And all the hits are there, and the track selections are genius, and fit every moment.
It's fucking glorious.
Billy Lourd is delicious as a villain chick straight out of Toxic Avenger.
She pretty much steals the show.
There's one slightly potentially problematic ingredient, they use Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker, as a character.
And they overlap his real crimes and capture with the story.
His final fate kind of pulls a Quentin Tarantino altern-iverse deal though.
But....trashy true-crime TV movies with real killers were an 80's thing too.
So, that only ads to the nostalgia, and the accuracy.
And they kind of meta-goof on that in the story with a serial killers death tours franchise.
So, what could potentially be cringe becomes brilliant.
And Zach Villa's portrayal of him is spot-fucking-on.
Can't wait for it to come out on disk, it'll make a great marathon along with "Final Girls", "Behind The Mask", and "Cabin In The Woods".
But, until then, Spectrum has it on free VOD.
So, I'll be binge-ing this again.
Will I be checking out the other AHS seasons?
...naaahhh.
Thanks for this one though, AHS.
From the bottom of my little 80's heart!
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2 comments:
Lou Diamond Phillips did a Richard Ramirez movie recently. I didn't see it and have no idea how good it was or wasn't. I think the reason I never got around to seeing it is that I don't see much interest in Ramirez compared to other true crime/killer stories. I guess he's sort of, er, generically lurid? That makes me sound tacky, like I'm calling the Zodiac killer cool or something but there's a perverse fascination in trying to guess who he might have been, having that voice of his around and all, that there isn't with dudes like Ramirez.
Oh!!
Funny you mention Zodiac!
John Carroll Lynch, who played Arthur Leigh Allen is in AHS: 1984 as "Mister Jingles", the sorta-Jason in this world.
So, you actually GET Zodiac vs Ramirez in this!
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