Copycat Kills: In Defense of FRIDAY THE 13TH: A NEW BEGINNING By Chad Collins
There are some ideas in the collective horror canon that seem so obvious their recurrent snubs strain credulity. These are the ideas that seem almost spectral– ideas that float on the periphery, gauzelike; you wonder when they are finally going to appear.
th: A New Beginning, the fifth in the long-running slasher franchise, was bold enough to manifest one such idea. What if some poor sap, aware of the perennial legacy of a franchise slasher, decided to imitate one? What if the cover of a notorious killer gave way to a copycat?