A new series, titled Scooby-Doo: Origins, just started filming in Atlanta — and it finally explains how Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and, of course, the titular Great Dane came together to solve crimes and unmask foes under Mystery Inc.
According to Netflix’s Tudum, the new show opens with longtime friends Daphne and Shaggy in their last year of camp, when they get entangled in a mystery involving a Great Dane puppy (Scooby, of course) who may have witnessed a supernatural murder. They team up with “scientific townie Velma and the strange but ever-so-handsome new kid Freddy.”
And we are old enough to recall going to theaters to see it in April 2002 when it was released..
Some movies get better over time and accepted.. Kind of like Halloween 3, we change in our review..
But all this time later it doesn’t seem like much has changed in the world of JASON X viewpoints..
We had no mercy in 2002 when we revealed the entire movie after being told from those who screened it earlier in the year what happened..
At that time, we were constantly fixated on Robert Ebert (*may he rest in peace) and his hatred of horror movies.. He did not disappoint in his review of JASON X..
We also wrote in 2002:
Roger Ebert reviews JASON X…”There will be a “Jason XI”–or, given the IQ level of the series, “Jason X, Part 2″… “The characters follow the usual rules from Camp Crystal Lake, which require the crew members to split up, go down dark corridors by themselves, and call out each other’s names with the sickening certainty that they will not reply”
JASON X / 1/2* from THE SUN-TIMES….Although Ebert’s review was the most comical, the rash of negative reviews have not surprised us…Although, the amount of them has…
Other reviews from horror sites at that time (many are gone now)..
CREATURE-CORNER: “Is it a good film? F*** no. The musical score sounds like Philip Glass taking a dump on his Casio, the production design and costumes sometimes falter, and there’s more than one joke that goes so bad as to require the audience to audibly groan”
U-WIRE.COM: ” Never pee in the woods. Pee in the woods and your head gets chopped off. Actually, it’s not just urinating that gets you in trouble, but smoking a joint, having sex, taking a shower, talking, eating, etc. The only people who seem to live are the ones who just run around calling out names. So, if you are alone in the woods at night and hear “ch-ch-ch-ah-ah-ah,” don’t do anything except run around shouting for your friends.
CINESCAPE: JASON X therefore winds up being a rather strange hybrid – sort of but not entirely horror, sort of but not entirely comedy, definitely (assuming you like this sort of thing in the first place) guilty-pleasure fun….
It was just that bad then and maybe just as bad now..
For years, the Road Runner has been uncaught because of defective products from ACME.. Wile E. Coyote never had a chance..
Will Forte will now represent.
This movie has been shelved for a long time but later this summer, on August 29, it is finally being released into theaters..
Deadline reports, while Warner Bros. long ago completed and tested the film, also starring John Cena and Lana Condor, they shelved it all the way back in the fall of 2023 amid rampant cost-cutting efforts led by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. The move ignited outrage not only among the film’s key creatives, but across Hollywood at large, leading the studio to shop the project. Multiple studios placed bids, but Ketchup Entertainment wound up landing the project in a deal valued at around $50M, as we first reported last March.
It was shelved in 2023 when WBD CEO David Zaslav decided to cancel it – along with a number of other films and shows – in order to receive a tax write-down.
Even Will Forte said at the time, “My thoughts were that it’s f–king bulls–t. It is such a delightful movie. It deserves so much better than it got,” he said. “I can not tell you possibly why the decision was made to not release it. But it makes my blood boil.”
It never seems to matter if people really are ready.. they keep coming..
And… another one is on the way.
Per Variety, it’s been revealed that Curry Barker has been hired by A24 to direct a reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The feature film is separate from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre series that’s also in development at the studio by director JT Mollner. No specific details about Barker’s take on the story have yet been revealed, but it’s being described as a “reimagining,” suggesting it will tell a new story based on the original film from 1974.
Another new story..
Another new chainsaw massacre …
The original film is credited as being one of the ‘scariest of all time.’ And if that is the case, why do they keep redoing it repeatedly?
