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ultimate reaver posted...

Ammonitida posted...

The series as a whole is awful, plagued with bad acting, dialogue and pacing. It did not age as well as the Nightmare On Elm Street series or the Hellraiser series (Hellraiser 2 is brilliant, with one of the best depictions of hell in any horror movie). Almost nothing interesting ever happens in these movies until the final 30 minutes. Before that you just get lame acting and boring kill scenes (whose bodies are not discovered by the protagonists until the very end, in a series of cheap jump scares).

The best movie in the series IMO is Jason X (Jason in space). Better acting, better story, likable characters (like the female android), and the first hour is not utterly boring like the others in the series, even if it followed a similar formula. The sci-fi element really helps out here. Runner up is Jason vs Carrie (girl with telekinetic powers takes on Jason). Actually had a good subplot with the girl and her abusive psychiatrist. Reminded me of Firestarter. Third would be Jason Takes Manhattan, but mainly for the third act which finally takes place in Manhattan. Best lines in the movie, "Hey, there's some maniac trying to kill us!!!!", to which the bartender responds, "Welcome to New York". This was back when NYC had a very high crime rate.

Completely disagree. Friday is trashy cinema but most of the movies are really easily watchable and honestly keep up the pace more often than not throughout the movie, especially from 4 onward. Meanwhile, Elm Street and Hellraiser start with good movies and then progressively get insanely bad over time. The scariest part of Hellraiser is imagining actually watching any Hellraiser movie past the second one

Wow. Hellraiser Bloodline was also brilliant IMO. Probably the best origin story of any 80s/90s horror franchise I've seen, with Halloween 6 Director's cut coming in second. As for Hellraiser III, well the scene inside the nightclub was pretty good, but it went downhill from there when ghost father started speaking to the protagonist from beyond the grave. I did enjoy all of the Hellraiser movies that were made in the 2000s.

Elm Street is mixed but with more good than bad. The Dream Warriors is the best, followed by Dream Master, New Nightmare, and the original. You really didn't like New Nightmare? That was quite an original take on the franchise and was executed nicely, even featuring a cameo from Wes Craven himself as himself to sell the idea behind the movie.