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John Carpenter Slams The Original 'Friday The
13th': It 'Doesn’t Rise Above its Cheapness'
by Liz Calvario
The 'Halloween' director calls out the horror films that came after his.
John Carpenter paved the way for the slasher genre in
1978 with his thriller "Halloween." Remembered as
one of the best horror films of its kind, there's no
surprise that after the mega-successful flick was
released, copies soon followed. Speaking with author
and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis, the helmer
discussed the horror films that came after his iconic
picture and compared Sean Cunningham's "Friday the
13th" and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to
"Halloween." "One sprints from an organic idea and
has a truly artist's eye working," he stated. "And 'Friday
the 13th,' I feel, affects me as very cynical. It's very
cynical moviemaking. It just doesn't rise above its
cheapness."
Adding, "I think the reason that all these slasher movies
came in the '80s was a lot of folks said, 'Look at that
'Halloween' movie. It was made for peanuts, and look
at the money it's made! We can make money like that.
That's what the teenagers want to see. So they just
started making them, cranking them out… most of
them were awful."
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"Halloween" was created with a budget of $325,000
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10 films later, Carpenter is returning to the franchise to
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Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions will cofinance the film along with Miramax. "Thirty-eight
years after the original 'Halloween. I’m going to help to
try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all,
"said Carpenter when the news was announced.
We're ready!
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