{"id":3737,"date":"2018-07-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-the-13th-part-vi-jason-lives-director-tom-mcloughlin-on-how-comedy-can-produce-great-horror\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:45:00","slug":"friday-the-13th-part-vi-jason-lives-director-tom-mcloughlin-on-how-comedy-can-produce-great-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-the-13th-part-vi-jason-lives-director-tom-mcloughlin-on-how-comedy-can-produce-great-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives&#8217; Director Tom McLoughlin on How Comedy Can Produce Great Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2018\/07\/friday-13th-part-vi-jason-lives-tom-mcloughlin-interview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/p13_6_nst_promo.jpg?itok=kL3zZzFE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOne of the best entries in the &#8216;Friday the 13th&#8217; franchise was made by one of its most versatile directors.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe most highly spirited, self-referential, all-around-good-time entry in the lucrative 12-film-deep <em>Friday the 13th<\/em> slasher franchise, <em>Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives <\/em>is the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the hockey-masked Jason Voorhees&#8217; numerous film acting credits. Released in theaters on August 1st, 1986, the film was heralded as a breath of welcomed fresh air, debuting in the number two slot at the North American box office (behind the prosperous third week of James Cameron&#8217;s <em>Aliens<\/em>).&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWritten and directed by Tom McLoughlin, a 36-year-old musician, mime, stuntman, and yes, filmmaker, not only did the film do what its title stated it would (resurrecting our machete-wielding maniac), but it also infused hearty laughs and a lighter tone upon the typically dead serious franchise. The expectedly large body count would still be amassed, of course (scroll down to see one of the film&#8217;s highlights: the funniest triple decapitation you&#8217;ll ever witness), but not without its own touch of irony and grim wit. &#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2018\/07\/friday-13th-part-vi-jason-lives-tom-mcloughlin-interview\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; One of the best entries in the &#8216;Friday the 13th&#8217; franchise was made by one of its most versatile directors.&#013;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Yh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}