26 Feb 2021 Perhaps in one of the lower tiers of horror film franchises — The Championship compared to The Premier League of Friday The 13th – creator Alan B. McElroy’s series is built around families of flesh-eaters hunting people in West Virginia through a series of imaginative booby traps and improvised weaponry (think Home Alone if Kevin McCallister were a blood-thirsty cannibal). The seventh entry in the cycle is a reboot, written by McElroy and directed by Mike P. Nelson ( The Domestics). It adds a new dimension to the killer clans, but there is not enough here to make it feel fresh or original.