Tag: Pamela Voorhees
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How This Giallo Slasher Influenced ‘Friday the 13th’
With eight films released in ten years, the Friday the 13th franchise was the king of the 1980s slashers. Though the first film excelled as a mystery with the reveal of Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) as the killer, it was the sequel and the introduction of Jason Voorhees that turned the movies into a pop…
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Run Rabbit Run review – Sarah Snook fails to spook
The Succession star is typically excellent but even her performance feels too familiar in this derivative ‘mummy horror’ flickGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMotherhood is mayhem. Just ask any woebegone mama of film history: Mia Farrow’s wide-eyed Rosemary Woodhouse, beset with paranoia; Margaret White, the religious zealot of Carrie who mistakes punishment for protection;…