Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood isn't one of the better sequels in the long-running horror saga, but the original plan was to make a potentially award-winning entry. The original Friday The 13th borrowed the blueprint of Halloween and added more sex and gore. While Paramount was always embarrassed to be associated with the series, the films were produced for tiny budgets and always turned healthy profits. An attempt to close the series with the fourth film - famously dubbed The Final Chapter - was quickly dropped as it was another big success.
The Friday The 13th movie franchise pressed on - despite Jason being killed off in part four - with A New Beginning. That entry introduced a Jason copycat, but after a fan backlash, the main man himself was resurrected for Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. While a box-office disappointment, the sixth entry is often considered the best sequel, and an early example of Scream-style meta humor. The seventh chapter was once developed as a potential crossover between Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street, with Jason battling Freddy.
That plan was quickly scrapped as the production companies couldn't come to over the crossover. Instead, Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood pit Jason against a teenage girl with telekinetic powers. The movie is notable for introducing Kane Hodder to the Friday The 13th series, who for fans became the Jason actor to beat and he played the slasher four times. That said, The New Blood is considered one of the weaker outings for its dull characters and lack of gore - a consequence of the MPAA coming down hard on the graphic footage filmed for the sequel, insisting most of it be cut. It received bad reviews too, though initially, there were plans to make a classier, potential Oscar-winning Friday The 13th sequel.
Italian Auteur Federico Fellini ed On Friday The 13th Part VII
In a franchise retrospective at Camp Crystal Lake in order to build some condos. Haney also claimed Sachs "... wanted it to win an Academy Award." To that end, several classy filmmakers were pursued for the movie, including Federico Fellini, director of classics such as La Dolce Vita and 8½.
Federico Fellini's Friday The 13th Part VII certainly has a ring to it, and it would have been fascinating to see that version. However, the odds of landing an auteur for one of the most critically reviled horror franchises were always slim to none, so the plan came to nothing. At that time, the chances of a horror movie even being nominated for an Oscar seemed ridiculous too, and The New Blood didn't end up receiving any awards. Getting an auteur to helm a Friday The 13th movie could have changed the course of the franchise, but it wasn't destined to happen.
