John Portanova, Author at The MacGuffin: Film and TV Reviews, Interviews, Analysis

Tweet-Size Horror: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

November 20th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th Part VII: This solid installment features Jason fighting a telekinetic girl. Unfortunately, the MPAA cut it to shreds. 8/10

November 18th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th Part VI: The series at its most fun. Jason becomes a zombie, fights some great kids, and does it with a sense of humor. 9/10

November 17th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th Part V: Terrible follow up to Final Chapter features annoying characters, bad acting, and Jason isn’t even in it! 2/10

November 16th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th The Final Chapter: The best of the series. It features great characters, awesome death scenes, and loads of nudity. 9/10

November 15th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th Part III: Jason turns into the killing machine we all know and love in attitude and with his trademark hockey mask. 6/10

November 14th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th Part 2: Less interesting rehash of part 1, but with Jason as the killer and a better final girl in Amy Steel. 5/10

November 13th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

Friday the 13th (1980): Made as a Halloween rip-off, but it’s a good rip-off with interesting characters and an intriguing mystery. 8/10

November 12th, 2009 | POSTED BY John Portanova

The Unseen (1980): Very slow film plods along for an hour before ‘The Unseen’ is revealed… to be a big retarded guy in a diaper. 3/10