Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Episode #447, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: Well, here we are fresh on the heels of another tribute episode. We’re doing another tribute episode this week. This one we’ve wanted to do for a couple months now. La Park Lincoln, the, uh, star of Friday, the 13th, part seven, the New Blood. Also one of our favorites, house two she was in.

Craig: Yeah, 

Todd: we’ve already done on this. I like the idea that we could do another Friday, the 13th episode because Me Too, we don’t have. Enough excuses to dip into this, this series. 

Craig: This is the best one. Yeah

Todd: You like this one? Huh? 

Craig: Craig is dying behind you. Are they all right? There’s a frog. I think it’s the sound of a frog.

Todd: That’s hilarious. It sounded like someone was dying. It’s like this. We, we were freaking out about it the other day. I’m in a bungalow in Cambodia right now in CM Reap. We’re gonna be visiting Ancor Watt tomorrow and a whole bunch of temples including the Tomb Raider temple that was featured in the Laura Croft Tomb Raider movie a while ago.

It’s gonna be a busy day for us, and I’m here with the family and I’m awesome. We’re recording in the bathroom, so you’re gonna hear frogs. Just bear with me, please. It’s all good. But yeah, it, I do feel like I’m in the Friday, the 13th movie, to be honest. Now that you think about it, I’m in a bungalow that’s on stilts, but it’s in a nice little resort, but it, it feels very summer, campy.

It’s, it’s quite nice. So I’m in the spirit to talk about this movie because you know how I feel. About Friday, the 13th series. Yeah. I wanna like it so bad and I actually even every now and then think, you know, I think I’m in the mood. I’m gonna put on a Friday, the Friday the 13th movie, one of ’em, and then I’ll kind of get into it and I’ll get maybe about.

Halfway through it and I’ll be like, oh, now I know why. I don’t really care for these movies. They’re all so the same. Mm-hmm. And some of them are really pretty terrible. If I remember correctly, the one that was two before this, so this is part seven. Yeah, six five. So part five when I was going through one Halloween and I was like, I’m gonna just gonna binge the series.

I’m gonna like watch one a night. I think I got as far as eight and I was like, I can’t even do this anymore. And I think it was part five that started to turn me part five was so weird. It just felt strange. Like it was shot on video. Everything about it was just a little off. Do you know what I’m talking about?

Part five? 

Craig: Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Gosh, I, I get confused as to how many there are, but there was one, it was probably five, I don’t remember, but there was one that went really goofy. Yeah. Like silly, silly, silly characters. I mean, it wasn’t straight up comedy or anything, but. The characters were silly. Yeah, it’s, I don’t know.

Todd: That was it. 

Craig: I get what you’re saying.

Todd: Well, my understanding is that nobody liked it. The studio kind of hated it and, and the producer hated it. Sean Cunningham, whatever, and Frank Man Mancuso Jr. Who was kind of the guy who’s been, you know, spearheading this whole franchise. Undercover, you know, ’cause they do these like non-union pictures.

The paramount ends up distributing all of it feels very sleazy when you get back into the backstory behind these movies. And if you read Camp Crystal Lake Memories, it is eyeopening how these things came into being. It is utterly fascinating. There were drugs on the set all the time and bad conditions and.

It really just depended on who the director was at the time. And these were all shot on the cheap, but then like released by a big studio in the theater, so, so you know, it’s just weird. The whole series is even weirder when you get into the backstory. The reason I’m going into that is because I think this movie and the one just before it were really their attempt.

To put a little bit more money into this because Freddy was eating their lunch. Yeah, the, I think the, the one before this didn’t do quite as well as they thought, but it still did make money, so they just felt forced to make another one, and they pumped even more money into this one, thinking that if we get a good director behind it, if we put a bigger budget into it.

And a novel and interesting script. Then maybe we can do the Freddie thing. They were, I think they were also kind of waiting around too, right? Hoping that new line would agree to loan them Freddie so that they could come together on a Freddie versus Jason, but that never. Materialized at that time, and so they just kind of made this one, and I don’t know, man, I, I think it’s one of the better ones.

I, I agree with you that you say it’s your favorite. You said Jason X was your favorite. I know. So now you’re changing, you gotta explain that. What’s with the change of gears, I. 

Craig: Gosh, there, there, I mean, there’s so much, and you’re right. You should check out that book, crystal Lake Memories, is that what it’s called?

Yeah. Yeah. You should check out that book. I haven’t read the book, but I’ve watched the documentary and I rewatched the segment of the documentary that it was about this one, but I. Not the rest of it. ’cause it’s like, I don’t know, five hours long or something. Yeah. And, and it’s great. You, you should watch it.

It’s, it’s fantastic. But yeah, I mean, we talk about these things all the time, but it was an entirely different culture. The reason that this