In a recent Onion AV Club article dealing with the Friday The 13th re-imagining/re-make, the author – who was an unabashed fan of the series despite clearly recognizing its shortcomings – stated that the joy in re-visting the 11(!) official films in the series comes from a very psychoglogically interesting place that I found myself immediately relating to. As a child, even the idea of watching “entertainment” focusing on a psychopath in a hockey mask butchering teenagers was something beyond my grasp. I was legitimately scared to watch such films (I remember the video box for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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