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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
As for a horror movie, this one delivers.
I'm a firm believer that horror movies should be judged as horror movies, and not compared when reviewed to films such as The Godfather, and as far as horror films go, this one could easily be the Godfather of em all. Following closely in the tradition of the previous three Fridays, The Final Chapter places Jason smack dab in the middle of two isolated cabins deep in the woods, one occupied by a group of fun loving teenagers and the other by a peaceful lakeside family. Well of course the violence and gross fun is plenty, but what really sets this film apart from a lot of horror flicks and almost all of the Friday the 13th films is it's tone, quality and over all entertainment level. Director Joseph Zito has a sharp eye for detail and Splatter Master Tom Savini sure does send Jason out with a bang. Of course this ended up NOT being The Final Chapter, unfortunately it should have been. After this entry the series really started to go down hill. If your in the mood for a good old fashion 80's slasher flick, this one's for you.
Scream 3 (2000)
a tired rehash
Rule #1: success of a horror film lies in it's simplicity (see Halloween, Scream, Friday the 13th etc.) unfortunately the makers of this third installment in the Scream saga didn't listen to themselves about breaking rules and went ahead and broke this golden one. Scream 2 bent the rule by placing Sid in college (with every oppertunity to destroy the killer at her disposal, forgetting that what made the original Scream scary was it's simplicity, a group of teenagers being stalked one by in their house, and eventually killing the culprit violently and again, SIMPLY! in Part 2 we suffered through watching an elaborate finally between pretty much every character in the cast (or at least those who survived) and the killer in a totally, for most viewers, unrelatable situation, taking place on a theatre stage which plays a key part to our hero's survival with it's prop placements and it's design, where as the house in the original was just that, a house. Now we have Scream 3, which places our hero Sid in the most unbelievable of places, Hollywood, where practically and how convenient, everything is at her disposal. Being the average Joe i am, i know i really related to the whole Hollywood thing. What a crock! About the only good thing about the film is it's beginning. As with the previous two films, this Scream is very intense and grips you from the git go. The opening sequence is a notch above Scream 2's opening, bringing it back to the level of the first one's opening. Unfortunately for Scream 3, that's about as good as it gets. The rest is pretty much down hill. After seeing this final installment and looking back at the three films as a whole, they are not so much a trilogy as they are simply just a rehash of something that was good and downright scary, the original Scream.