GLOBSTER

noun
globster (plural globsters)

An unidentified organic mass which has washed up on a beach.

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We all know dads can be bad, but some dads are really bad…. This was a big box cover I remember vividly from my childhood and conjured thoughts of a medieval torture chamber. ‘The Mutilator’ however, takes place primarily at a summer beachfront property. The father in question is a really bad…dad. Like many dads he spends most of his time hidden away in the garage, only occasionally he mutilates people. The funny thing about movies like ‘The Mutilator’ is that they don’t hinge on creating a new horror icon but rather create a thin vessel of chaotic humanity to dispatch it’s kills. The killer never dawns a mask or gets an iconic deformity. They simply exist as a fucked up guy with various implements to do in the paper-thin characters introduced. ‘The Mutilator’ came out in 1985 the same year that had a pretty strange but inventive turn in the Friday the 13th series. ‘Friday the 13th: A New Beginning’ againfocuses around Tommy, older and more insane and a group of troubled youths. Jason however is still in the ground and in his place is a vengeful father who takes up the hockey mask after witnessing his son’s murder. This plot twist is a pretty brazen one on part of A New Beginning’s creators considering the bankability of Jason as a horror titan at the time. Fleetingly, I think this installment was meant as a new route for the series. It never took off of course. The introduction of a mortal killer however does show some basic interest in returning our immortal monsters back into human entities. Toward the mid to late eighties we see a surprising turn in our horror villains, restoring them back into the thralls of mortality. ‘The Mutilator’ is an example of the father son torment that exists in many films of the same ilk. The alcoholic father in ‘The Mutilator’ is comparable to Jack Torrance from ‘The Shining’, existing as a complete personification of the violence forged from substance abuse. These characters posses a super powered rage, while still existing in the frailty of humanity. Comparing the two films on any other level is unthinkable. 

We all know dads can be bad, but some dads are really bad….

This was a big box cover I remember vividly from my childhood and conjured thoughts of a medieval torture chamber. ‘The Mutilator’ however, takes place primarily at a summer beachfront property. The father in question is a really bad…dad. Like many dads he spends most of his time hidden away in the garage, only occasionally he mutilates people.

The funny thing about movies like ‘The Mutilator’ is that they don’t hinge on creating a new horror icon but rather create a thin vessel of chaotic humanity to dispatch it’s kills. The killer never dawns a mask or gets an iconic deformity. They simply exist as a fucked up guy with various implements to do in the paper-thin characters introduced. ‘The Mutilator’ came out in 1985 the same year that had a pretty strange but inventive turn in the Friday the 13th series. ‘Friday the 13th: A New Beginning’ againfocuses around Tommy, older and more insane and a group of troubled youths. Jason however is still in the ground and in his place is a vengeful father who takes up the hockey mask after witnessing his son’s murder. This plot twist is a pretty brazen one on part of A New Beginning’s creators considering the bankability of Jason as a horror titan at the time. Fleetingly, I think this installment was meant as a new route for the series. It never took off of course. The introduction of a mortal killer however does show some basic interest in returning our immortal monsters back into human entities.

Toward the mid to late eighties we see a surprising turn in our horror villains, restoring them back into the thralls of mortality. ‘The Mutilator’ is an example of the father son torment that exists in many films of the same ilk. The alcoholic father in ‘The Mutilator’ is comparable to Jack Torrance from ‘The Shining’, existing as a complete personification of the violence forged from substance abuse. These characters posses a super powered rage, while still existing in the frailty of humanity. Comparing the two films on any other level is unthinkable. 

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