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What if before Jason took Manhattan, he was in England finding love? As such a structured genre, horror is ripe for meta-commentary and parodies of its well-established tropes. Sometimes, the only thing better than watching your favorite horror movies is watching parodies of them. After the huge popularity of Scream's meta-approach to slashers in the late 90s, the 2000s brought forth a slew of popular parodies like Scary Movie, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and Cabin in the Woods. Since many have put their hat in the ring to appease our collective desires to poke fun at the genre, fans of horror parodies like the Scary Movie franchise likely feel as though they’ve exhausted their storage of quality parodies. However, like our favorite slashers, Anders Palm’s hidden 1988 gem Unmasked Part 25 has been waiting in the shadows to scratch that itch while providing more than...

We’ve all been there: your job is boring, it drains the lifeforce from any responsive brain activity, and you would kill to be anywhere else. Well, what happens if your job is killing people and you’re sick of it? This is the conundrum put forth by Unmasked Part 25 (1988), a British horror film that asks the question, “Can Jason Vorhees settle down, find true love, and change his ways?” An interesting posit, and one presented with some dry humor and gore galore.

This one sat for many years on unsuspecting video shelves, its artwork of a mangled face in bandages and tagline of “It’s a cold, cruel world – but Jackson can hack it!” along with the spoofy title suggesting an Airplane! style take on slashers. It may start out that way, but in short order turns into something completely different. Afforded theatrical distribution in its homeland but hitting the video market everywhere else,...