Video Scripts: The Rock, Witchboard, and Friday the 13th Part 2
Sharing three more videos Cody wrote for JoBlo Originals and JoBlo Horror Originals.
I have been writing news articles and film reviews for ArrowintheHead.com for several years, and for the last couple years I have also been writing scripts for videos that are released through the site's YouTube channel JoBlo Horror Originals. Recently I started writing video scripts for the JoBlo Originals YouTube channel as well. I have previously shared the videos I wrote that covered
Three more videos that I have written the scripts for can be seen below; one for the JoBlo Originals channel and the other two for JoBlo Horror Originals.
For the Revisited series, I took a look back at the awesome 1996 action movie The Rock:
For the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series I wrote about one of my all-time favorites, director Kevin S. Tenney's Witchboard. Tenney called the video "high praise that left me utterly speechless, which anyone who knows me can tell you doesn't happen very often."
And for the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? series, I dug into the making of Friday the 13th Part 2:
Some of the information I gave on the Bay of Blood connection was trimmed from the final cut of the video. Here's that section of the script:
"Over the years, some genre fans have noticed that a few of the kills in the first two FRIDAY THE 13TH movies are oddly similar to kills in the 1971 Italian film A BAY OF BLOOD, which was directed by Mario Bava and is also known as TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE. In particular, scenes of people with axes or machetes stuck in their faces and the double impalement of Jeff and Sandra look they could have been lifted right out of Bava’s movie. Sean S. Cunningham has said that any similarity between the films is purely coincidental, as he didn’t see A BAY OF BLOOD until years after the FRIDAY movies were released. But others involved with these movies were definitely aware of Bava’s film before the first two FRIDAYs went into production. Martin Kitrosser, who worked as script supervisor on the first two movies and co-wrote the screenplays for parts 3 and 5, is such a huge fan of Bava’s work that he even named his son Mario Bava Kitrosser. By the late 1970s, Kitrosser had his own sixteen millimeter copy of A BAY OF BLOOD, and he watched it with his friend Ron Kurz. When interviewed by Tim Lucas for the book MARIO BAVA: ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, Kitrosser said that when Kurz heard Cunningham and Victor Miller were planning to make a slasher movie to cash in on the success of HALLOWEEN, he suggested that Kitrosser let them borrow his copy of A BAY OF BLOOD. So according to Kitrosser, they had seen the movie before they made FRIDAY THE 13TH.
When Kurz was hired to write FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2, he and Kitrosser felt they should model the kills after the ones seen in A BAY OF BLOOD... and Kitrosser even thought the movie should include a dedication to Bava, who had passed away the month before FRIDAY THE 13TH was released, in the end credits. That suggestion was shot down by the producers. The producers at Georgetown were also familiar with A BAY OF BLOOD. They were theatre owners in Boston, and had their own distribution company called Hallmark Releasing. Hallmark had brought A BAY OF BLOOD to America in 1972 and had great success with the film, which they often sent out to drive-ins as a double feature with THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. So there’s no denying that multiple people involved with the early FRIDAYs knew they were following in the footsteps of Bava’s film."
More video scripts have been written, so another batch of videos will be shared here on Life Between Frames eventually. In the meantime, keep an eye on JoBlo Horror Originals and JoBlo Originals!
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