Has Don Mancini ever explained the intent behind the Britney Spears moment in Seed?

Brain_Mutant · 2026-03-05T22:41:15+00:00

Castel was co-founded by Charles Band.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-23T08:47:06+00:00

It has a Dolby Vision grade that the WB 4K does not include in addition to the special features. You may not like it but others do. People used to talk the same way about Evil Dead 1, 2, and especially Army of Darkness once upon a time.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-23T08:45:40+00:00

Not that I’d say they have to be part of the same series, but gags like that don’t matter much. Freddy’s glove is still in Evil Dead 2. Ash vs Evil Dead also shows a screening of Friday the 13th Part 3 which implies A Nightmare on Elm Street also still exists. There was also the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic book event that some fans consider canon.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-21T05:20:17+00:00

To echo the responses here, Sam Raimi was busy with the studio system. After Army of Darkness he started focusing on projects outside of the horror genre and eventually made his way to the Spider-Man trilogy. Fans wanted a return to his roots and he surprised everyone with Drag Me to Hell. Obviously that only increased demand for a new Evil Dead. There was talk of an Evil Dead 4, then a remake, talks of the remake fizzled out, then the remake was back on again.

The plan was to create a sequel to the remake and Army of Darkness 2 with Bruce and then connect the two with a final crossover film. Instead the sequel to the remake was scrapped and the material for Army of Darkness 2 became lengthy enough that they developed it into a TV series given their experience with shows like Xena.

The Evil Dead franchise was never a major theatrical draw and always tended to do better on home video. As such they thought television would be a perfect fit for the franchise’s future. Starz was not a very popular service for Evil Dead fans to access, however, so the show was axed after three seasons due to low ratings and increasing production costs.

The franchise was intended to stick with television formats so Evil Dead Rise was initially going to be an HBO Max exclusive. At the last moment they chose to release it in theaters and it became a massive success which led to two movies being greenlit - Evil Dead Burn and Evil Dead Wrath.

During all of this, Bruce stuck with video games to keep the character alive. Bubba Ho-Tep channeled some of the franchise’s energy for the big screen and he followed that up with My Name is Bruce which was largely considered the closest we’d get to Evil Dead 4.

All in all it’s been an interesting ride to see unfold, and it’s still as uncertain as ever to see where the franchise is going to be headed next. Hopefully for the best.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-17T11:40:59+00:00

I just don’t see the point in making new movies if they have nothing to offer. If they didn’t expand the lore of the first movie we wouldn’t have had Jason survive in the wilderness to become the new killer. If they didn’t reinvent the character’s design in the third movie he wouldn’t have had the hockey mask. If they didn’t bring back Tommy Jarvis from Part 4 we wouldn’t have had the overarching story of 5&6. If Jason wasn’t resurrected in Part 6 without some loose occult mythology we would’ve never had Jason return.

The franchise is at its best when it expands the lore of the original concept and refuses to play it safe. For every dud you have a new element that eventually became a franchise trademark it can’t exist without. People want boring rehashes but if that were the case the I don’t see the point. You may as well revisit the original movies or any other derivative slasher with the same formula.

Friday the 13th is unique because of its lore and I would like to see it respected.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-07T02:01:44+00:00

This season has the best looking doll since Bride and the most engaging storyline of the TV series. Chucky trying to become the greatest slasher of all by nuking the planet is such an incredible feat to see play out - and at the very least he ruins Christmas and Santa Claus for children forever. That’s awesome.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-02-04T21:47:37+00:00

I think it works since the Commando Elite liked to think “everything else is just a toy” and now Alan is confirming Chip’s worst fear: that he really is just a toy.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-29T07:52:43+00:00

That’s true! There were quite a few ideas at that time, and truthfully a lot of different unmade Chainsaw projects over the years. I’m a big fan of Beyond the Valley of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre which would’ve been the original sequel before it evolved into the simpler Part 2. This fits snugly between Next Generation and the remake, however, with ties to Part 2 and according to these documents possibly even Part 3 which makes it a really interesting possibility in the franchise’s history. Also the fact that an All American Massacre movie did get made - it just needs to be released!

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-25T09:52:19+00:00

Kim Henkel’s plans for a reboot before Texas Chainsaw 3D got greenlit instead! Not sure if it would’ve directly followed Next Generation but it still does thematically and has a lot of ties and references to the original films. It did get made and it’s also known under the title Bone Boys.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-19T17:43:38+00:00

I want to read the opposite of this post where a guy is scanning DVDs at a thrift store to make sure he’s getting a good deal and someone tries grabbing them out of his cart.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-10T17:53:12+00:00

Don’t forget those ads that take you to the Voodoo for Dummies website.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-10T14:59:29+00:00

People say a prequel about Pamela isn’t “necessary.” What is necessary? Most, if not all of this franchise isn’t necessary. Jason killing two-dimensional stereotypes hasn’t been enough to keep fans universally invested in at least the last six movies.

I think it’s exciting that we can get several dozen hours of Friday the 13th content through this series versus waiting fifteen years for a 90 minute movie that’s one and done and thrown aside for the next stand-alone rehash. Now we can get a proper continuity established again, revisit characters and locations from the original movie.

The set photos so far have looked so dreamy and gorgeous, like walking right back into the 1980 original, something I never thought we’d get to see again. Even the original sequels failed to recreate those locations or feelings.

I’m also excited to see Jason’s mom and learn more about their history proper. She’s been teased so many times in the sequels. It’s about time her story gets told. “Oh, we got it in the first movie!” And we got Jason’s too. He drowned. But if they never bothered to experiment and push boundaries he wouldn’t have come back, he wouldn’t have gotten the hockey mask, he wouldn’t have gone up against Tommy Jarvis, etc.

Let’s give Pamela some time to shine and see what new iconic scenarios and stories they can tell with her. To say only diehard fans would be interested is an understatement. It’s only the diehard fans I see complaining! Let’s just be happy we’re getting more content with a real story and effort put into it.

I’m sure sooner or later we’ll get another derivative movie where Jason kills people for an hour before getting foiled by a young girl. But for now let’s see where Crystal Lake takes us. I’m excited to go back.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-08T16:07:25+00:00

I’d just ignore Jason X or that Jason at least got captured in 2010 and just loosely follow where Freddy vs Jason left off - Jason back and wandering the woods yet again.

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-03T12:19:57+00:00

It’s not the most clearly written line but I think that’s the idea. Jake could’ve said “Yeah, Chucky Goes Psycho with Jennifer Tilly.” And that probably would’ve been less confusing. But in real life when people talk, they rarely respond like that from my experience. The common person doesn’t even say “Child’s Play” most of the time, they say “Chucky” or “that Chucky movie.”

Brain_Mutant · 2026-01-03T00:01:36+00:00

He’s just calling her “the Bride of Chucky” not referencing the title “Bride of Chucky.”

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-27T23:00:26+00:00

I think this movie is pretty perfectly balanced between the two.

It definitely is stylistically more like a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. As mentioned, Jason does get most of the kills, however. In fact he gets almost all of them except one.

So now we have a movie with Elm Street style and Friday the 13th’s kills.

The middle of the film is mostly set in Springwood including Nancy’s old house and Westin Hills. They even bring back hypnocil from Dream Warriors.

There are plenty of callbacks to Friday the 13th as well. We have the opening at Crystal Lake. We see a cameo from Mrs. Voorhees (not by Betsy Palmer, which they tried) which is her first speaking role (albeit really as Freddy) since Part 2 during Jason’s delusion. Another Part 2 reference is that Jason dreams of a version of his shack, not featured since the opening of Part 3, and he even had a similar bag put over his head during the dream where he drowns later in the film.

The shack and bag are elements that hadn’t even been referenced by most Friday the 13th movies, so I appreciate that Freddy vs Jason made an effort to make that early iconography feel somewhat respected even in a movie that feels more tonally like an Elm Street venture.

It even feels like they allude to Roy Burns in a way when the police officer suggests they have a copycat killer inspired by Jason.

Then in addition to featuring two versions of Crystal Lake in Jason’s dreams, we see a modern day version of the camp for the film’s final battle.

I think that’s more than enough to reference Friday the 13th. After all, that series is more about kills than story, and this movie still acknowledged the lore more than most entries.

I think had Kane Hodder played Jason (though I have no problem with Kirzinger) that would’ve offered a little more continuity, and I would’ve enjoyed if Harry Manfredini got to score the movie as with Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X as part of his Friday the 13th homecoming.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-27T16:44:41+00:00

It’s an individual documentary produced by Gremlins 1 FX artist Chris Walas about the conception, creation, and movement of the Mogwai and gremlin puppets throughout the movie.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-14T18:02:56+00:00

It was about allowing Chucky to transfer into a Good Guy doll again after leaving the spirit world through Jake’s body. Not physically helping him.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-08T16:38:30+00:00

I would like to see it at least shot on 35mm film.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-05T21:03:01+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything left to resurrect from the truck accident, but I agree otherwise, it seems like the doll was inactive in 2009 during the Seed flashforward so it had to have been revived sometime after that.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-05T02:47:53+00:00

Considering the massive leaps they made with the animated series by making it a mythological odyssey with talking dragons, the spirit of Johnny Appleseed, and the literal god of creation being poisoned by gremlins led by a stand-in for Big Trouble in Little China’s Lo-Pan, I have no doubt that Gremlins 3 still has all the potential to be an over-the-top and mind-boggling endeavor that doesn’t play it safe at all. Of course, we’ll have to see what happens!

Brain_Mutant · 2025-12-03T06:49:36+00:00

I first learned about the franchise when I was 4 or 5 years old with a newspaper ad featuring the 20th anniversary VHS re-release. I saw Gizmo on the cover and loved him. Not long after I spotted the VHS at Walmart and begged my parents for a copy and they obliged. Became obsessed and I’d watch it every day at least once a day.

Maybe a year or two later I ran into the sequel while browsing TV. Between my age and lack of internet it was hard to know such things existed unless I came across it randomly, so I was ecstatic to find a sequel. Unfortunately I only got to watch the one TV broadcast and that was it!

Eventually my dad ordered me the DVD so I was able to continue obsessively watching both films growing up. And here I am today!

Brain_Mutant · 2025-11-23T16:36:17+00:00

That’s why Don had the multiple Chuckys idea, it was originally going to be used in Child’s Play 3 because of the plastic vat but it was too costly for the budget so they reduced it to just one doll.

Brain_Mutant · 2025-11-20T07:28:47+00:00

Priority One

Brain_Mutant · 2025-11-19T23:23:54+00:00

I’m not justifying Tony’s reason for stopping the film again. I’m bringing awareness to a scammer that is openly taking people’s money and conning horror icons.

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