Who claims as one of his main inspirations FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN and the other latter day Universal films. Naschy, who throws just about everything into his films but the kitchen sink - vampires, werewolves, mad scientists, you name it. 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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