willaTJI Friday


Welcome back my friends, to Castle Rackula. I know a laid a heavy trip on you last week with my long-winded discourse on the ancient Indo-European roots of modern revenge flicks, but since the Last House on the Left remake still isn’t out, this week I’m turning once again to Friday the 13th, a subject on which I always have something to say.

The reboot has been on my mind again this week as I perused the new photos of Willa Ford and Julianna Guill online and noticed that there’s yet another Friday the 13th (the day, not the movie) coming up in a few weeks, which I haven’t decided yet how to acknowledge.

According to movie industry blog Risky Business, New Line and Platinum Dunes are moving forward on a sequel to the Friday the 13th reboot, which will also be scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift and could be out by the second half of next year.

I have already gotten over my earlier discomfort with bringing in a hockey-masked Jason Voorhees into a movie called Friday the 13th, but I’ve made my peace with that.

Reportedly, Shannon and Swift, who looked to the first four movies for inspiration, are going off on their own at this point, (perhaps wisely) disregarding the Tommy Jarvis story arc that picked up in A New Beginning and completely avoiding any telekinetic teenagers or forays into New York City.

But the big question is whether or not Shannon and Swift will keep up the good work when it comes to nudity or whether the skin-on-meter will take a dip in this new franchise like it did in Jason Lives, which featured Hot Moves actress Kerry Noonan, oft-nude Aerobicise babe Darcy DeMoss and her Gimme as ‘F’ costar Jennifer Cooke without letting any of them show skin!

As far as The Count is concerned, they can put Jason on the moon as long as they don’t forget the poon!

Amanda RighettiThe involvement of Amanda Righetti, the movie’s female survivor, is also uncertain, since her commitment to a network series that films 22 episodes a year apparently precludes her doing any movies.

If they really want to honor the franchise, the filmmakers only need her long enough to kill her in the first few minutes of the sequel like Adrienne King (who never got naked in a Friday the 13th movie either) in Part 2.

Amanda’s TA in Angel Blade was impressive, but that’s going on seven years ago. And it’s not a good sign that she didn’t show an inch of skin in the horror sequel Return to House on Haunted Hill, although the movie did feature great nudity from Oksana Borbat, Xeniya Fesenko, and Zhasmina Toskova.

So with or without Amanda, if Shannon and Swift stick to the formula that got Willa Ford,Julianna Guill and America Olivo naked in the last movie and follow Steve Miner’s lead in kicking the nudity up a notch for the sequel, we should be in for a flesh-filled franchise!

Until next week, fangs for the mammaries.