David Ruis Fisher Jason is so gay. These words were spoken once by an ex-boyfriend as we sat watching Friday the 13th Part II. It was more like I was forcing him to watch it, and he was just doing it to appease my nerdy obsession. As a slasher film fanatic and a hardcore Friday […]
Stella Castelli When in his short story ‘The Killers’ Ernest Hemingway characterizes the proverbial killers as a vaudeville team in appearance, the text not only implies a comedic undercurrent within the fictionalized murderous agency, but also exposes these killers explicitly as a double act. At the height of its popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, […]
Caitlin Duffy In his article “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” Henry Jenkins offers “a middle ground position between the ludologists and the narratologists… examining games less as stories than as spaces ripe with narrative possibility.” In studying games this way, scholars and critics explore the methods and opportunities for narrative play and experimentation rather than […]
Fraser Coffeen Both as a standalone film and as a series, Friday the 13th has a decidedly spotty relationship with film critics. Upon the film’s initial release, The Hollywood Reporter called it “blatant exploitation of the lowest order… there is nothing to recommend about this ghastly effort”[1] while Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel really upped […]
Jason J. Wallin In the expository montage of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), camp counsellor Paul Holt rehearses an omen well established in prior installments of the franchise: something is wrong at Crystal Lake. In a flashback to the original film, town local “Crazy” Ralph proselytizes that Camp Crystal Lake is plagued by […]