Comments on: Part 2 Double Impalement: Original Or Stolen Kill?

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 11 Apr 2024 12:41:33 +0000

Friday 2 took that scene from Twitch. There is nothing wrong with that. The horror genre takes from each other all the time.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 09 Apr 2024 21:43:22 +0000

I would have to see the complete uncut scene to judge. According to many published accounts, the original Friday the 13th kill scene was longer and much more graphic…so much so that it had to be cut for the movie to get an ‘R’ rating. The way the scene is now, it is very similar, but the one in TOTDN is actually bloodier and the false back is fake looking. Copied or not, FT13TH2 did a better job.

By: Camoern

Camoern — Thu, 08 Apr 2024 05:54:58 +0000

Who cares if it’s ripped off or not…it wouldn’t be remembered very well if it weren’t for part 2…in fact would anybody remember TOTDN otherwise?

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 08 Apr 2024 03:32:50 +0000

they aren’t just similar, they are the EXACT same scene…it’s taken for sure…no way it’s original

By: Derek Price

Derek Price — Wed, 07 Apr 2024 19:29:41 +0000

Very similar indeed. However, when two things are being compared that are very similar if not the same, I am reminded of a quote by Boy George when asked what he thought about Pete Burns, the lead singer of “Dead or Alive,” complaining about how Boy George had ripped off his use of cross-dressing/androgyny and that Pete had done it first. The quote is this: “It’s not who did it first. It’s who did it better.” And, obviously, “Friday:2,” did it better.

By: Bobby Russell

Bobby Russell — Wed, 07 Apr 2024 00:47:59 +0000

The only thing I can say is that our happy couple didn’t keep going in the middle of the “spearing!”

That aside, yeah, they are similar, but a lot of times, scenes like this are similar in some way, shape, or form.

By: The Gill-Man

The Gill-Man — Tue, 06 Apr 2024 14:42:42 +0000

Yeah, it’s definitely a rip. I think Cunningham and Miner would have gotten less flack about it if they’d just said “this scene is our homage to Twitch of the Death Nerve”, rather than trying to pretend they had never seen the film. Giving a nod to a favorite film is done by directors all the time in Hollywood. If Miner had just said “yeah, I love Bava and wanted to tip my hat to him in this scene”, then I think most fans would have respected that. It’s a damned cool scene, in both flicks!

By: DrJohnMan

DrJohnMan — Tue, 06 Apr 2024 14:36:06 +0000

If this went to court, I am sure the judge would rule that the italian movie influenced the Friday the 13th kill. George Harrison (beatles fame) was sued for that My Sweet Lord song he had. The court ruled that he subconsciously took a guitar riff from another song and added it to his. He lost a lot of money. In the very least, you can say that happened here. Though, it seems like maybe a bit more.

Today, its no big deal to borrow scenes from other movies. Happens all the time.

By: Tony Carroll

Tony Carroll — Tue, 06 Apr 2024 02:22:25 +0000

There are a few kills in Twitch that are really similar to the first 2 Friday the 13th films.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 06 Apr 2024 01:51:39 +0000

It’s funny that “Twitch” was also know as “Last House on the Left Part II” and had nothing to do with the first Last House.

By: jasonsfury

jasonsfury — Mon, 05 Apr 2024 16:34:53 +0000

jasonsfury, you’re thinking of Dario Argento’s 1975 “Deep Red” with the hot tub scene in Halloween 2. Even though in Deep Red, it was just a simple bathtub in a woman’s house

Ah ha. Thanks NW. Now that sounds like the correct movie. Memories!

By: Hevymentl13

Hevymentl13 — Mon, 05 Apr 2024 13:40:39 +0000

I doubt Friday 2 ripped off The Burning, seeing as how they were released the same year…and the Cropsy folklore was around way before either of the movies came about.

By: Paul Juser

Paul Juser — Mon, 05 Apr 2024 11:11:58 +0000

Friday 2 also blatantly stole the campfire story scene from a 1981 movie, “The Burning,” which featured a young Jason Alexander. In fact, this story of Cropsy, a disfigured camp worker seeking his revenge with a pair of gardening shears seems to have set up the whole future of the Friday franchise. There is no coincidence that Steve Miner “accidentally” recreated all these iconic scenes.

By: MadWorldDesigns

MadWorldDesigns — Mon, 05 Apr 2024 05:52:37 +0000

Yeah I saw this debate brought up many years ago. It’s also brought up in a couple of shasher film documentaries if my mind serves me right.

It’s totally a rip and I sort of remember Cunningham saying some where that he used that scene in Twitch for inspiration for his concept or something along those lines. (but I’d have to go back and research that comment)

Plus if you have read the behind the scenes of that shot that the original cut also shows them squirming on the bed trying to get off the spear in Friday 2 but it got cut down. So if you could see the uncut version it would be identical.

But I like the Friday 2 version better.

Steve
mwd

By: NW

NW — Mon, 05 Apr 2024 05:08:50 +0000

jasonsfury, you’re thinking of Dario Argento’s 1975 “Deep Red” with the hot tub scene in Halloween 2. Even though in Deep Red, it was just a simple bathtub in a woman’s house.

Oh, a male character in “Twitch of the Death Nerve” also feature a man wearing a sweater that look a lot like what Pamela Voorhees wear!!