Horror Films


Friday 13th

Some believe that Friday the 13th is a remake of the film released in 1980 but it’s not. It is an origin story written by Damien Shannon and Mark Swift. The film is constructed in an odd way with an opening 25 minute prologue, the opening credits come up and the story begins. A group of teens are hiking through a woods looking to set up camp for the night. You become aware that they are looking for a large-growth or more obviously a marijuana plant, which they plan on selling. As they set up camp two of the group go into the tent while the others go off to do some extra searching. One of them inevitably dies and the chase is on to capture the other teens. Jason (the killer) ends up killing them all and the title Friday the 13th appears. The story then follows another group of teens in search of what happened to a member from the other group. As the group get into varies troubles from leaving the house they are staying in or ignoring the others instructions and die gory deaths it comes to a final showdown between a character looking for one of the original group and the killer Jason. The film leaves the viewer on the edge and at numerous times we think both are going to die, eventually ‘Ginny’ outwits Jason and kills him. The story then takes an unexpected twist and shows us a flashback and shows why Jason is killing people. The film is part of a series and reminds us what happens if we hadn’t seen it before. This is another unusual bit of structuring as it shows us at the end and not the beginning of the film.


The Final Destination

Alex and his classmates are about to set off on a school trip to Paris when he sees in his mind that it will crash. He causes a panic on the plane and is taken off it with his five friends and a teacher, he tells them what he saw and as the plane takes of it blows up in mid air. Alex believes they have cheated death and comes to the conclusion that they will all die. Firstly a friend slips and accidently hangs himself in the shower, next Alex has this vision of a bus coming down the street when infact there is nothing there, she turns to walk away and is killed by an oncoming bus. The school teacher who was taken of the plane to calm the students down is next to die, she has a serious of accidents in her house which ultimately lead to a computer blowing up in her face.

The remaining characters set off in a car only for it to stall on the railroad tracks, they all get out exept the driver, at the last minute Alex swoops in and saves them, but the train hits a bit of metal and flies through the air to kill his other friend. Alex works out that if the person supposed to die avoids the death it will skip to the next person. His girlfriend is the next in line, lightning strikes a tree at her house and events lead her to be stuck in her car with a powerline on it, Alex swoops in and helps cheat death once again.

Six months later thinking they have finally cheated death for good, they are on a flight to Paris and Alex realises they have not cheated death and he is next in line to die. Another set of wierd events happen and as Alex is about to be hit by an oncoming bus his friend dives in and saves him. They finally feel they have cheated death for good as they have all intervened it but as his friend is thinking about what happened a sign comes crashing down and kills him.

The death is still following them.


When A Stranger Calls

Jill Johnson is forced to babysit at a rich couples mansion all by herslef because she has gone over her phone contract by 800 minutes and she has to pay it back. She settles down and the kids are in bed, she goes to check on them and when she comes to sit back down the phone rings and a stranger on the end asks if the kids are asleep yet. She hangs up and tries to think nothing of it but he rings again and the person on the end makes some more remarks, this freaks her out and she decides to call the police to try and track the call. They tell her that the call is being made from within the house, at this point she is really scared, she runs to get the kids and tries to flee the house.