Rose Blood: A Friday the 13th Fan Film

What we have here is talented writing,fantastic production, production, cast,great Script,imaginative conceptualization,amazing acting and a great contribution to the Friday the 13th franchise. This film has taken what the silverscreen has left off and us hanging. It has answered the age old question "What happened to Tina?!". A true fan of the franchise has asked this question. Well Peter Anthony has answered it.what else can a Friday Fan ask for? I cannot wait to see what else is coming our why. This movie created a segway of true horror entertainment. Great Job Guys.

I watched it I enjoy the story line it was really decent and was really cool Jason vs Michael rose was really great too very good hope to be on 📀 dvd great job Peter Anthony and cast.

Plot

Takes place 13 months after Friday The 13th Part VII. We follow Tina Shepard as she is held and studied at the infamous Camp Crystal Lake Research Facility. Tina realizes that she is not alone. There in fact is another New Blood. Rose.

Cast

Friday 13th stars Lar Park-Lincoln (Tina) and Kevin Spirtas (Nick return) to reprise their roles as does Terry Kiser as Dr Crews. We also have the dreadful Sanae Loutsis who can also oddly be seen in the fellow Friday 13th fan films Friday 13th Vengeance 1 & 2.

Verdict

It wasn't until I decided to binge watch all the Friday 13th fan films that I realized a number of things. First of all, there are plenty of them! Second, how weirdly incestuous they all are, you'll notice how many are connected in some way whether it be cast or the creators. Such as the director of one series of them will be the producer of others. Next how many manage to get official Friday 13th cast members involved, that is impressive. And finally how weirdly shilled they all are on IMDB, it seems consistent cross the board from the Vengeance movies to the Never Hike Alone ones and beyond.

The trouble is not that they vary in quality, but that most are really quite terrible despite many having a fair few things going for them such as the original cast members.

Rose Blood digs deep with the nostalgia and clear love for the franchise, I love the fact we have a young Creighton Duke here, I appreciate their decision to follow on from Friday 13th: New Blood, I think there are elements here that really work but sadly there are just too many that don't.

Jason's body looks absurd, the bones just don't look even remotely passable. The acting is spotty, and when it's bad it's really bad. Sanae Loutsis is the worst actress, truly needs lessons or to move into a different career! The writing is hokey, the kills are questionable and it just doesn't flow nor feel like the companion piece it's clearly supposed to be.

And then there is the "Twist" the big shock appearance later in the film which though on paper is a fans wet dream, feels forced, rushed and just doesn't work in the slightest.

I'd say nice attempt, but I'd be giving too much credit. The best I can do is say it's not the worst fan film out there, not even close.

Rants

I'd love an explanation behind how interconnected all these Friday 13th fan films are. I'd love to know how they manage to get all these original movie stars to be involved. I'd love to know why Loutsis thinks she's an actress. I'd love to know why they're consistently shilled (And why the creators get so upset when called out on it). I doubt I'll ever get the answers, but doesn't stop making me wonder.

Breakdown

Feels like a love letter to the fans Some great nods to previous films Some original cast members Weak acting Some questionable decisions Jason looks hokey Sanae Loutsis is just dreadful.

I really enjoyed roseblood a good fan film,it was shot really well and Jason brooks performance was fantastic,the kills were well done,Ii wasn't sure how they would bring back dr crews character but they did a great job in doing so.roseblood won't be everyone's cup of tea,but myself and a lot of people will really enjoy the film.

You have to give Friday the 13th fans credit. While Sean Cunningham and Victor Miller are slashing it out in court over the F13 film rights, the fans have kept Jason Voorhees alive via a number of fan films. In the last few months, I've seen a bunch of them from Never Hike Alone (2017) to Friday the 13th: Vengeance (2019). They are fun and often cast F13 alumni, but I couldn't help but lament that I wish the filmmakers did more than just having Jason chase folks around the woods. Rose Blood seemed to be fulfilling that possibility by acting as a direct sequel to Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988). Unfortunately, the execution is woefully inadequate.

The majority of the film takes place in June 1989 at the Camp Crystal Lake Research Facility, a military lab studying psychic phenomenon. To give you an idea at how careless the filmmakers are, they decorate their set with a picture of President Reagan on the wall. Dang, if only there was some kind of machine that they could type into to find out who was President that year. Anyway, the prize subject here is Tina Shepard (Jessica Hottman), a year removed from her tangle with Jason. Also working in the facility is Creighton Duke (the truly awful Jequient Broaden), the bounty hunter from Jason Goes to Hell (1993). There are lots of military and medical types talking in white rooms before the arrival of Rose (Sanae Loutsis), another teenage girl with telekinetic powers that dwarf even Tina. To establish this, director Peter Anthony shows members of the team watching a horrific security video of Rose brutally murdering her parents. We just have to assume it is super graphic as Anthony films it by just showing people watching it in silence, wincing and then going, "Turn it off!" Anyway, this all builds to an experiment on Tina and Rose together that results in Jason (the aptly-named Jason Brooks, who also played Jason in the Vengeance films) being resurrected at the 65-minute mark and killing a few not-so-elite soldiers rather quickly before he has to face another manifested boogeyman.

I almost feel guilty giving this film a bad write up. After all, the filmmakers are obviously fans of the F13 series and you can't hold a fan film to the same standard as films with 500 times the budget. That said, there is no excuse for terrible acting, bad dialogue, and a painfully laborious scenario that only features Jason Voorhees for ten minutes of the 90-minute running time. Writer-director Anthony (who also hams it up as a General) seems more focused on putting on something more akin to Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz with the military focusing on how to use telekinetic children as weapons along with a side order of way too many random Nintendo and Sega references (nostalgia!!!). This level of stiltedness carries over to the kill scenes as well. Look in awe as Jason attacks some soldiers in a 10x10 black room (and, yes, one soldier sleeps through most of the carnage because he has a Walkman on). Perhaps the most offensive element is the film using the main selling point of bringing back VII's stars Lar Park Lincoln, Terry Kiser, and Kevin Spirtas, only to give them a few minutes of screen time. Bummer.