But this film is more of a finely detailed character sketch, about a cocky kid who becomes a hero almost by accident. Writer-director Maggie Peren doesn’t shy away from the inherent suspense of a young man living incognito, always one mistake away from being sent to his death (as Schönhaus’ parents were). Louis Hofmann gives an outstanding performance in the period drama “The Forger,” playing the real-life Jewish artist and World War II resistance fighter Cioma Schönhaus, who survived in Nazi-governed Berlin in the early 1940s thanks in part to his ability to reproduce convincing documents. Available on VOD / ‘The Third Saturday in October.’ Not rated. ‘The Third Saturday in October: Part V.’ Not rated. Only one of these two pictures works on its merits, and it’s not “Part V.” But that’s as it should be. He’s on top of everything here: from the regional quirks to the period-appropriate music to the way minor details in one film become unskippable traditions in the sequels. (To be fair, the later entries in horror series are often rather silly.) But it’s hard not to be impressed by Burleson’s command of how old exploitation movies look and sound. Like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s similar cinematic fetish object “Grindhouse,” these two movies often veer too far into outright parody, which breaks the retro spell. Is all this postmodern goofery necessary? Maybe not.
The original is supposed to be from 1979 - post-“Halloween,” pre-“Friday the 13th” - so it has a grainier look, sleazier thrills and a fuller plot.
So viewers are supposed to follow “Part V” with the newly unearthed and restored (again, according to the meta-lore) “Third Saturday in October,” which tells the story of how Jack became a supernatural monster and began his kill-spree. In the “Part V” meta-lore, the original “Third Saturday in October” has been out of circulation for a while. Burleson wants viewers to start with “The Third Saturday in October: Part V,” in which masked murderer Jakkariah “Jack” Harding makes his yearly return to torment random southerners gathered around their TVs to watch an annual college football rivalry game. Writer-director Jay Burleson has made two separate homages to the kind of long-running horror franchises that genre fans would stumble across in video stores in the ’80s and ’90s. It’s not every slasher film that comes with instructions, so try to follow along with this. ‘The Third Saturday in October: Part V’ / ‘The Third Saturday in October’
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