Carrie is a very dumb concept, and Part VII does nothing to improve on it in execution. With apologies to Barbara Sachs and her sky-high ambitions for the franchise, Jason vs. So does this hodgepodge of other, better horror movies end up coming together? Having re-watched it just this week for the first time in at least a decade, I’ll be blunt: Part VII is probably my least favorite Friday the 13th movie. balked at this version of the story, so it was completely rewritten-but the vestigial Jaws tail lives on in one particularly graphic kill, when Jason drags a stoned skinny-dipper underwater to her death.
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Longtime series producer Frank Mancuso Jr. Barbara Sachs’ original concept for Part VII was also, according to Haney, a straight-up ripoff of Jaws: A greedy corporate land developer decides to build a bunch of condos on Crystal Lake, covering up all the Jason Voorhees–related murders so they don’t impact his bottom line. You can see the oddball nature of Part VII’s development in the final product, which feels like a compilation of several half-baked, underdeveloped ideas. Reflecting on Part VII decades later, Buechler explains his deviations from the normal Friday the 13th tone: The first act was basically his version of Firestarter, and the final act was more like Carrie vs.
Rowling published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.) And Buechler certainly had a unique vision for the material. (Bizarrely, Troll also features a protagonist named Harry Potter more than a decade before J. In the end, they settled on director John Carl Buechler, who had established his low-budget-horror bona fides a couple of years earlier with a movie called Troll, which happens to include the film debut of Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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