Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Like its deranged killer Jason Voorhees who keeps getting up no matter how many times he is knocked on the head with an axe, this slasher series just keeps shambling on - lifeless, flat-footed, and with nothing to say - and from the end of the original to the end of this Part 4, the series has been free of anything constituting a plot or interesting development, although this Part 4 offers a marginally more interesting string of impalements than Part 2 and 3 given the victims here are a more diverse bunch - not just teen camp counselors - all again gathered nearby Camp Lake Crystal.

★☆☆☆☆

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The Lost Boys (1987)

The world of vampires, pirates and Peter Pan collide in Joel Schumacher's cult classic from the 80s about vampires who dress like Jack Sparrow (or Adam Ant, depending on your age), lounge about like teenagers who'll live forever, and get away with a stupid number of murders in seaside Santa Carla despite the very public altercations they have with all of their victims in the moments just prior to their feeding frenzies - it is all a very daft but hugely enjoyable mix of horror, comedy and fantasy bolstered by a way-cool pre-male pattern baldness Jason Patric, the two Coreys hamming it up as teenaged vampire experts, a bleached-blonde Kiefer, a dizzy Diane Wiest, and - the real star above all else - a killer 80s soundtrack.

★★★★☆

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The Goonies (1985)

A group of kids hopes to save their home from demolition with a last ditch adventure that proves to be a riotous treasure hunt involving pirate ships, bats, maps, codes, caves and the not so sinister Fratellis!

★★★★☆

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