Happy Halloween!

Hope you're having a good one! This is just a quick update post to let you know that the Fifth Cannon Cruisers Halloween Special is up today. You can find it here!

In this one we cover the fourth and sixth entries in the Friday the 13th slasher series and discuss how such a simple series maintained longevity for a whole decade. Why these two entries specifically? Well, you'll have to tune in and find out for yourself. You might be surprised at these ones, especially if you only know the first couple like I did.

A lot of horror is looked at, and seen as, a celebration of evil. To be fair, it can be if misused. However, the spirit is really in the celebration of evil being triumphed over and mocked. Believe it or not, the story that carries through these two entries (and technically the fifth, but not really) despite its lightness actually does show this. Much like the first and third Nightmare on Elm Street movies tell a story of evil being put down, this is the same, albeit not quite on that level. However, they do aim a bit higher than you might think for the genre.

For my money, I still believe the two proper Maniac Cop movies (which I covered here and here) are still the best, and most overlooked, examples to making this genre work and showing how evil acts and intent can lead to tragedy. There can be more to it than watching clueless and broken people meeting their untimely end. For another example from that Halloween season during the coof, I also covered Night of the Demons here. It's also surprisingly eerie. Just because the subgenre has been done badly does not mean it can't be done right, or effectively. It very much can!

Nonetheless, our Fifth Halloween Special is an hour long and focused on these relics of a slowly dying decade in the back of our minds. Once again, you can find it here! We talk for a good while on our perception of the series and why these two entries work.

Be sure to have a fun Halloween, and do not let the cynicism and misery of modernity poison your imagination and love for higher things. It is one of humanity's best features and we would do good not to lost it to the nonsense trying to drag us down into misery.

Thank you once again for coming here and also tuning into Cannon Cruisers. It means a lot and makes this all worth doing. Once more, the new special can be found here.

Happy Halloween!

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