John Carpenter Reveals His Opinion Of The Friday The 13th Franchise, And It Isn’t Good
During a recent podcast John Carpenter expressed his hatred for the Friday the 13th franchise. In his discussion with Bret Easton Ellis about his involvement as executive producer for the new upcoming Halloween film currently in development, Carpenter ripped the 1980 horror classic a new one with a string of insults, basically calling them copycats and reviving the long running feud between the two franchises. “I think the reason that all these slasher movies came in the 80’s was a lot of folks said, ‘Look at that Halloween movie. It was made for peanuts, and look at the money it has made. We can make money like that. That’s what the teenagers want to see’. THR quoted Carpenter as saying. “So they just started making them, cranking them out. Most of them were awful.” I reached out to Friday the 13th‘s creator Victor Miller to find out what he thought about Carpenter’s statement. Miller’s response was not only civil, but
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