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Dee Wallace

Hayley Greenbauer

Corey Feldman

C.J. Graham

Kane Hodder

Judie Aronson

Tracie Savage

Ron Sloan

Deborah Voorhees

Lar Park Lincoln

Caitlin Mott

Debra Sullivan

Taylor Lance Rodriguez

Nigel Lawes

Caslin Rose

Darren Barcomb

Tiffany Helm

Susie Linsenmayer

Christopher W. Norris

Rachael Christenson

Ron Woods II

Heather Brooke

Vincente DiSanti

Leslie Fleming-Mitchell

Neely Heil

Spring Schultz Lade

James A. Janisse

Jennifer Banko

Lee McCoy

Drew Leighty

Poppy Gillett

Kaylee Hall

Hayley Duncan

Alexis Capozzi

William Dixon

James Cantu

Liana Cockfield

Edric Ray

Phil Baumhardt

Madeleine Stark

Katherine Jackson

Orlando Rodriguez

Olivia Budak

Riley C. Morris

Jason Bradford

Troy Oelke

Ken Slate

Kenneth J. Casper Sr.

Brad M. Robinson

Ben DeAtley

Dean Morgan

Holden Pattie

Arielle Scavron

Garrett Lamay

Rick Serra

William 'Shane' Erickson

Kirsten Krohn

Brian Papandrea

Sheena Coenen

Morgan Jacobs

Elise Coakley

Joel Paul Reisig

Gib Gerard

Mary Maxson

David W. Miller

Neely Blair

Timothy Skyler Dunigan

Becka Rose

Pamela K. Witte

Kristi Fontenot

Carol Locatell

Doug Maulden-Locke

D.J. Patton

Tamer Çıray

Ben Meredith

Jason West

Valerie Ann Williams

Daniel Zollinger

Richard Stringham

Alyse Garcia

Scott Witherall

Resa Mercado

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Dale Swetnam

Burak Topalakçı

Dakota Crouch

Cynthia Johnson

Jana Lynch

Vanessa Ionta Wright

Gareth 'Slasher Trash' Morgan

13 Fanboy is so bad it makes Halloween Kills look like a masterpiece in comparison. This movie is like Wes Craven's New Nightmare minus the budget, talent, visual effects, creativity, and intelligence. 

Some of these shortcomings are because this horror movie co-written and directed by Deborah Voorhees (whose last name helped her land an audition and win a role in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning) is, as the title suggests, a glorified fan film that has no official connection to the Friday the 13th franchise — but then neither did Friday the 13th: The Series, and yet that TV show was an entertaining product that went beyond exploiting an intellectual property to which it was attached by the most tenuous of links.

“An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond ... The cast includes a myriad of real life actors and actresses from the Friday the 13th films as well as iconic scream queens” (IMDb).

The first problem with this is that Friday the 13th, unlike Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, or Halloween, doesn't have an iconic scream queen, so Voorhees was forced to borrow them from other movies: for example Dee Wallace, who in the 70s and 80s appeared in The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo, and Critters, and in the 2000s in Rob Zombie's Halloween

As for the "myriad" of "favorite actors", the killer must be the only person on the face of the planet able to recognize them and distinguish any particular one from the others. Lar Park Lincoln? Judie Aronson? Tracie Savage? Jennifer Banko?

These are names so esoteric that Voorhees herself doesn’t trust the audience to be able to identify them, so she plasters the screen with their names, their characters’ names, and the movies in which they appeared. 

I can understand that C.J. Graham, by the nature of his character, would be unrecognizable, but even Kane Hodder who, mask or no mask, is arguably the 'poster child' of this franchise, gets the equivalent of 'name, rank, and serial number'. The question is, if Voorhees didn't make this movie for the kind of viewer who would instantly recognize Kane Hodder, for whom exactly did she make it?

All this demolishing of the fourth wall is a deliberate choice as well as a necessity brought on by the public's understandable ignorance of who the fuck these people are, so here’s another question: why even bother with this meta-bullshit? Why not just go full-on film-a-clef? 

Instead of real-life nobodies (and the cumbersome, intrusive exposition they cause), you could have fictional characters standing in for some of the actors who actually became household names post-Friday the 13th; that is, characters that would be, albeit justifiably so, as unknown to the viewers as Mr. Graham and Mrs. Banko, and at the same time belong to a familiar frame of reference. 

Since I’ve mentioned Graham twice, I’d be remiss if I didn’t observe that he takes in this movie’s single memorable moment; face to face (or, rather, face to mask) with the villain, who confesses he’s "been waiting my whole life to fight you, Jason" (although only a few scenes ago he had already fought Hodder), Graham blurts out: "What do you say, boy? You want a shot at the title?," his delivery punctuated by a conveniently timed flash of lightning. 

This and no other is the spirit in which this film should have been made; with enough of a sense of humor to be able to make fun of itself. Unfortunately, Voorhees takes her material too seriously — almost as if she believed she's actually related to Jason.

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