Jason Soto: The Blog

Being a fan of both horror movies AND the Friday the 13th films, I got curious when I heard there was a show called "Friday the 13th: The Series". I didn't think it was weird because Freddy Krueger had a TV show called Freddy's Nightmares. But it was more or less Tales From The Crypt but with Freddy giving the terrible puns. And only a small handful of episodes had to do with Freddy, otherwise it was just random horror stories. But what would "Friday the 13th: The Series" be about? Would it get into the history of Jason Voorhees? Would it take place on that fateful night he drowned? Would it just feature different campers getting killed each week? Turns out, nope. It has nothing to do with Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, or Camp Crystal Lake. OK, then. It's called "Friday the 13th: THE SERIES" so...maybe it's about a rash of weird things happening on every Friday the 13th and a cop, a stubborn reporter, and a train conductor must tea...

15 years ago last week (yeah, I'm a bit late to the game, my personal life, uh, got in the way, so to speak) the movie Freddy vs Jason came to theaters. And I wanted to give it some love. Currently on Rotten Tomatoes , a site I'm not a fan of anyway because it scares and confuses me, it sits at 41% from "critics" and 50% from "fans". Whereas on IMDb , it's got a 5.8 out of 10. People don't seem to like this movie and I'm not sure why. Lemme explain why, for me personally anyway, this movie was a big deal when it finally came out. We need to go back in time to 1991. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was released and everyone involved said this is totally the last Freddy movie, we swear, ignore us crossing our fingers behind our backs. We found a way to kill Freddy and he was dead for sure. It involves a 3-D gimmick that won't hold up but he's dead, you guys. Promise. Flash-forward to 1993 and we get Jason Goes To Hell . This...