Letters

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING FREDDY VS. JASON

Re Mark Holcomb's "That '80s Show: Two Horror Franchises Go Straight to Hell" [August 13-19]:

"What's more, trying to keep the story line of strained meta-sequel Freddy vs. Jason straight requires too much of a cogitative investment."

See, the problem with this statement is that none of their movies were actually direct sequels. Sure, in the Friday the 13thseries, Part V was a sequel to IV, and VI was to V, but that was it. The other stories ended with the movie, and the only time (besides IV, V, and VI) when a character from a previous movie was in the next one was Alice (Part I) who was killed in the opening scene of Part II.

Justin Benjamin
Rochester, New York