“By sword, by pick, by axe,
bye bye!” In the wake of Sean S. Cunningham's 1980 slasher flick Friday
the 13th (perhaps the ultimate in killer franchises)
there came a glut of gore-soaked low budget maniac movies in which a slew of
tender teens came face-to-face with meat cleavers, chainsaws, fishermen's hooks
and all varieties of sharp objects. When Victor Miller wrote Friday the 13th,
he studied prior films in the genre – most notably John Carpenter's seminal Halloween
(1978) – finding the beats and working with them closely and, in the
case of Buddy Cooper's The Mutilator (aka Fall Break), a similar
path was taken, but with some playful tweaks thrown into the mix...
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