The MacGuffin

Friday the 13th The Final Chapter: The best of the series. It features great characters, awesome death scenes, and loads of nudity. 9/10

An L.A. television journalist is doing a piece on firefighters. She interviews all the people at the station and gets some good footage. The station gets a call and she and her camera guy hop on the fire truck and head to the emergency. When they get to the emergency, it’s a crazy lady covered in blood. She attacks one of the firefighters and things start to go south REALLY quickly.

Friday the 13th Part III: Jason turns into the killing machine we all know and love in attitude and with his trademark hockey mask. 6/10

Careful, from 1992, is like a narrated silent film (yes, I know this means it is NOT silent, but maybe more like an old-timey grainy German film) where the narrator warns people not to do anything adventurous or they will die. Don’t hold your baby while wearing a brooch or you could poke their eye out and will be forced to wear an eye patch – hilarious. Also, cut the vocal cords out of your farm animals if you live in the mountains so they can’t cause avalanches.

Junebug is an odd movie about a husband and wife who live in Chicago. The wife owns an art gallery and hears about this insane artist that lives near her husband’s family in the Carolinas. They go to see the artist and stop by the husband’s parent’s place for a visit. The whole family is a little … uh… “rural”.

Primer is an independent film about these four guys who hang out and invent some high tech gadget – they never explain what it really is. These guys are all friends, but they argue like crazy about who’s going to do what and who’s going to market this thing to whom. They sit in the garage and at the kitchen table and bicker about diagrams and prototypes. They buy parts from Walmart, and cut things off their cars and refrigerators.

The Orphanage (or El Orfanato in Spanish) is a movie from Spain about a husband and wife who buy a house on the coast and are renovating it to turn it into a home for mentally and physically handicapped kids. The mom grew up in this house in the orphanage that was there years ago. It’s a scary horror film with a lot of scary jump scenes and pretty suspenseful atmosphere. Even with subtitles, it’s pretty creepy and frightening.

Friday the 13th Part 2: Less interesting rehash of part 1, but with Jason as the killer and a better final girl in Amy Steel. 5/10

Friday the 13th (1980): Made as a Halloween rip-off, but it’s a good rip-off with interesting characters and an intriguing mystery. 8/10

Spencer is joined by John Portanova, from Adler & Zenith. They open the show by sharing some of their favorite DVD’s, move on to discuss the career of Richard Kelly and close by addressing the topic of sub-genres.