{"id":3284,"date":"2007-07-19T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T02:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2007-07-19T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T02:34:26","slug":"friday-the-13th-mothers-day-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/19\/friday-the-13th-mothers-day-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 13th: Mother's Day (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019ve seen plenty of fan films in my time. Comic book fan films, Star Wars fan films, and yes even fan films from other movies. Usually they\u2019re made by utterly ambitious fan boys, with a sleek production quality, and yet only really range a running time of 10-45 minutes, with the work done before the bag gets old. \u201cFriday the 13th: Mother\u2019s Day\u201d is probably one of the most ambitious fan films I\u2019ve ever seen\u2014the jury is still out. Not only does it pay homage to my favorite horror franchise of the genre, but it\u2019s based on a teen novel, and runs for about ninety minutes. Suffice it to say, I was shocked when I took a glimpse at the running time for this movie. Ninety minutes? Were they kidding us? No, they were not.<\/p>\n

So, being the Jason freak I am, I decided to dive right into it, and hope for the best. \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d is based on the novel by Eric Morse it\u2019s an inadvertent bridge between \u201cJason Goes to Hell,\u201d and \u201cJason vs. Freddy,\u201d and a film that\u2019s rather ambitious. The Jason here is not so much Jason per se, but more of a manifestation through the eating of his heart, as witnessed in \u201cJason Goes to Hell.\u201d Stevens clearly has a love for the \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d franchise, because this had all the bells and whistles of a usual film from the series, and Stevens succeeds in creating a hell of a fan film for our consumption. Jason\u2019s mother is pissed that people continue corrupting the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake, and insists, through what sounds like a spell, that Jason rise from the grave and punish those that enter.<\/p>\n

An inept hunter comes across a little item in the ground, and the carnage starts. As mother\u2019s day and Friday the 13th looms, a bunch of partiers go to Crystal Lake, and experience the manifestation of Jason. Clearly Stevens takes lemons and makes lemonade by almost admitting his inability to copy Jason, and just creates an imaginative spin on the character, deriving from \u201cJason Goes to Hell.\u201d Surprisingly, there are also the tight performances from the entire cast. Stevens didn\u2019t just assemble his friends and goof around with his friends; \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d has a hefty amount of solid performances, especially by Mali McConnell, who plays local virginal heroine Carly who has a bit of a connection with Jason, as she\u2019s often coddled by her mother.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a hilarious performance from Nicole Lillie who plays the fish out of water foreigner, an archetype that\u2019s not usually seen in the \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d films. \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d plays out just like every \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d film, except the characters aren\u2019t as grating this go around. I cared about the characters, and the dialogue between them was often entertaining to say the least. The formula is here, and I enjoyed it. There\u2019s a preamble, introduction of characters, all the folks play their parts (jock, slut, geek), the legend of Jason is told, the camp is open, and people begin dying left and right in truly gory manners. Stevens also noticeably mixes the camp of \u201cJason Lives\u201d with the harrowing suspense of \u201cThe New Blood\u201d while noticeably sampling scores from the aforementioned films. As someone who has seen all the films at least a hundred times, it was refreshing to see Stevens getting down and dirty with the classic \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d lore.<\/p>\n

One of the glaring errors and difficulties watching \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d is the often dark sequences that are practically incoherent. I had a difficult time understanding what was happening during the night sequences, because the colors are so dim and murky, that when its night, all you see is a black screen, and nothing else. Beyond that, the uses of \u201cDon\u2019t Fear the Reaper,\u201d and \u201cBad Moon Rising\u201d in the score, while apt, were a bit superfluous. While they\u2019re excellent songs, Stevens doesn\u2019t really need to clobber us over the head with these omens to build suspense and tension, when the director was doing it well enough on his own.\u00a0 Want to see this? You can, because hey, it\u2019s currently free! At over ninety minutes, Cory Stevens creates an utterly ambitious and exciting fan film celebrating classic \u201cFriday the 13th,\u201d with good performances, a tight script, and a great end result. Check it out, I implore you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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