Over here, we have a few Paul Naschy films. Horror films get enough abuse on a daily basis without being turned into glorified video games. I'm sure a search through the alt.horror archives will undoubtedly show how cynical I was towards the prospect of this film. After that saturation, we didn't want to get burned again. ![]() The fact that SCREAM, while being interesting and inventive, spawned numerous sequels and rip-offs that were actually worse than many of the bottom-feeding slasher films of the eighties didn't help. ![]() Likewise, there are still some people who deem the latter entries of the FRIDAY THE 13TH and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films as garbage, which helped kill off the genre for a few years. ![]() The obvious cash-in of pitting two horror icons against each other has not been lost on the more suspicious viewers. JASON is not a remake, but it has been saddled with many of the same criticisms.
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