the horror genre is the unwanted black sheep of cinema, then the
FRIDAY THE 13Th franchise is the broom stick
that high brow twats often beat it with.
Jason Voorhees just never got
his fair shakes in Hollywood.
Right down to his tightly wound daddy Paramount
who was ashamed of him even though he was overachieving by bringing in the dough
while the big budget boys under the same roof would fail at the Box Office. Its
fan love that kept Jason Voorhees alive for those 11 films and its with Peter
Bracke’s book
CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES; that he finally gets a
potent dose of long overdue RESPECT.
Hardcover, bigger than a midget’s block of a head, paging at over 300 pages
and filled with more content than you can shake a machete at, “Memories” is not
only the be all and end all of love letters to the hockey masked lady killer; it is
also the Coffee Book to own if you’re a self respecting slasher
fan (who happens to dig Friday the 13Th of course). So what’s the deal? Hold on
to your severed heads tacos! How’s over 200 candid, in depth and revealing
interviews with cast and crew from the franchise sound to ya?
Sean Cunningham, Wes Craven, Amy
Steel,
Joseph Zito, Crispin Glover, Corey Feldman, Greg Nicotero, Kevin Bacon, Ken
Kirzinger, Jason Ritter, Tom Savini, Betsy Palmer, Harry Manfredini John
Carl Buechler, Steve Miner, Robert Englund, Kane Hodder and many, many,
MANY MORE! Shite even memorable bit players from the series got some shine
time in this collection! WOW!
And that’s not where it ended it terms of dead meat dangling off this one’s
rusty blade. The book also slashed deep as to the history/development behind the films,
memorable on set anecdotes, how the actors got their roles, the Friday the
13Th TV Series (Make love to me Robie! Come on! It’s overdue!), the intent of the
filmmakers as to their pictures and…yes again…FREAKING MORE!
Butter all that
scotch with over 600 mucho groovy photographs (Some on set – some never seen before),
some priceless production goodies (poster concept art, storyboards), a thought
out foreword
by Sean Cunningham and a detailed Coroner’s Report
that covered budget, locations, returns etc. and you get fun times at the in
house when the out house is out of out to outs! Straight up; it took me a week
to read this book…and I read pretty damn fast! Now that was a full kill! Any negatives to
spit out? Sure a two page spread of a nude Jennifer Cooke on top of that cherry red car
she drove in Part 6 would’ve been nice…but hey…what are you going to do?
Word on the street is that it took Peter Bracke more than three years to get
this book together via hunting down talent and hitting the Studio “dump”
department for content; and you know what; from a readers point of view; it shows. This book was utterly fantastic; in its presentation, substance and
obvious adoration for the material. Friday the 13th fans, YOU CAN’T DO
WITHOUT THIS ONE! You’ll know more about the franchise than you’d ever thought
you could! I’d like to end off with
a big CHEERS to Peter Bracke for a job unbelievably well done. Sir you have made
this Voorhees fan’s month! THANK YOU!
READ THE ARROW’S INTERVIEW WITH PETER BRACKE HERE
VISIT THE CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES SITE HERE
BUY CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES HERE