Sweet Revenge

This is not a short film. It is a commercial for Angry Orchard beer.

The "film" wasn't made to be a horror movie, it wasn't meant to be art. It is a cynical product meant to shill other products.

This is disrespectful to everyone who worked on the previous Friday the 13th movies and all the loyal fans.

Jason hasn't graced our screens and 16 years, and his grand return is a glorified comercial. It's insulting to both the legacy of Jason and the fans who have put up with Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's BS. A speedrun of a Friday film that makes no logical sense, has next to no story, not a single character to care about, and only feels like an authentic Friday film for about 1 minute of its 13 minute runtime. The effects are decent and some kills could have been fun if they showed any of them on screen. When Jason finally makes an appearance, you're greeted with a short, skinny man in an abysmal mask who seemingly takes joy in at least one of his attempted kills. I'm all for a smart, mean, resourceful Jason, but not at the cost of creating a guy who isn't killing for the wrong reasons (and without an intimidating build in the slightest). His costume looks good, but his small stature and terrible mask completely ruin it. The music throughout the film feels like stock music except for whenever a somewhat messy variation of the original scores play and the ending is highly questionable. Overall a huge (but expected) disappointment that borders on insult. I would've rather had Jason stay dead than star in a Angry Orchard commercial. The only place he needs to be is on the big screen, preferably with a team who actually cares about this franchise and not just money.

Going into to this I had little expectations. The fact that it's a short movie is the main reason. However with that said this is beautifully shot. The location is gorgeous and the characters are very good. The final girl is really good and I loved the ending. If this is what we can expect movie forward I'm all in. Jason looks intimidating and the shot of him picking up the girl was scary good. I would've liked to had seen a few more kills but other than that this was very intense and well made. Tim Treakle.

Ok, it's not as bad as i was thinking it would be but this type of movie (slasher) can't or almost always can't be (or SHOULDN'T BE!) crammed into a 13 minute short.

I do give this short film credit for having music that is OVERTLY Harry Manfredini-ish (some parts seemed to be bordering on copyright infringement-ish). But the music in this majorly helps the film in every way. As much as i love the 2009 reboot F13, i do wish they had brought Manfredini in to score that film (or at least use music in it similar to this short film's music).

Ally Ioannides who plays Eve in this short film also played Tilda in "Into The Badlands"!! I've adored her ever since that show!

Big question, why didn't Jason kill her if he actually did pull her under the water?

Oddly enough Jason is hardly even shown in these 13 minutes. Lol.

And why did she have 2 major black eyes when she came back to the campsite (or why was she sporting the Ricky Raccoon/"smokey eyes" eye makeup look? Lol).

Lastly there should have been at least one or 2 more onscreen kills. I think there's only 1 on screen kill (that i do admit was pretty cool!). But again, an F13/Jason projects SHOULD NOT BE A MERE 13 MINUTE SHORT FILM. It's a waste of IP and character, etc.

Look I'm excited for any new F13 content, but let's jast hope Mike P. Nelson doesn't touch the new movie or series. Who knew there could be so many plot holes and "huh?" moments in just 13 minutes. And that Jason just isn't the guy... He looked more like a meth head than an unstoppable undead man-child. The mask looks ridiculous too, like a life size Funko pop. The bar was so low that all they had to do was trip over it and we'd be ok but they walked completely around it.

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