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The Story
Originally taken place a few months after the events of Part 2-4, Corey Feldman returns as Tommy Jarvis. One stormy night, he heads to the grave of Jason Voorhees. Suddenly, two shovel-carrying men comes out to have some fun and dig out Jason to see the infamous serial killer. Jason comes alive and kills the two men and stumbles to a hidden, but not well enough, Tommy. Just as Jason is about to kill young Tommy, older Tommy wakes up and we realize it's all just a dream. Now as a much older teenager, Tommy (No longer played by Corey Feldman) is an emotionally unbalanced wreck who's sent to Pinehurst, a place that specializes in troubled teens and preparing them for adulthood.
No sooner does Tommy arrive that the incredibly cliche fat loser, Joey, is axed to death by the ill tempered Vic. Vic is taken away by the police while an ambulance comes for the body of the dead teenager. Roy, one of the EMT's, appears to be particularly horrified. We then meet the group of troubled teens and it's a true collection of cliche misfits. There's the horny couple, the punk rock chick who looks like Saved by The Bell's Tiffany Amber Thiessen if she was a blond punk, a stutter and a girl with no real noticeable messed up traits. I suppose she's the Marlyn Monster of the group. Also joining the group is Reggie the Reckless, the grandson of the cook.
While Tommy tries to become adjusted to his new home, we're introduced to several minor gimmick characters that no sooner do we meet them, they'll killed. Much like in the first film, it's being done by a unknown assailant. Local neighbor of the halfway house is an older hick woman and her retarded (He sure as hell acts slow) son. She's upset that the horny couple keeps coming into her woods to have sex. Those damn "Perverts". On the night of when Reggie is taken by Pam (One of Pinehurst's operators) to go visit his 'No good' brother Demon, a near identical form of black Michael Jason, leather suit and all. This is when all of the chaos comes to Pinehurst as one-by-one every gets killed until it comes down to Pam, Reggie, Tommy and Jason. The final showdown occurs in a barn where Jason ends up being thrown all the way down to some spiked farming machine lay on the ground, killing him instantly. As he fell, his hockey mask falls off and his other mask somehow rips open.
Looking at the dead body, it's revealed that "Jason" was really Roy all along. Once a cop finds his wallet, he finds a picture of the fat kid who was killed in the beginning of the movie. It turns out that Roy snapped upon finding his son dead and decided to go on a killing spree while leaving everyone to think it was Jason back from the dead. At the hospital, an even more messed up Tommy has a dream in which he kills Pam. Upon waking up, he sees the real Jason before he slowly fades away. Standing up, Tommy pulls out Roy's hockey mask and knife as he waits for Pam to come in. Tommy has now become a killer.
The Characters Tommy Jarvis - Tommy is now an emotional wreck still not recovered after his battle with Jason Voorhees as a kid. On the plus side, Tommy now knows karate.
Reggie - The new Tommy, being a kid and thus "Jason's" unkillable foe. Reggie is about as stereotypical black as one can be.
Roy - An EMT who finds his son, Joey, hacked to death at the halfway home that Tommy goes to live at. The grief turns to homicidal thoughts.
Pam - Along with Matt, she helps run Pinehurst. Pam's the closest thing to a heroine the film has, yet she's one of the worst written characters in the entire series.
The Verdict
Having watched this movie a few times in the past, I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was this horrible. With all of these reviews, I've been trying to come up with positive and negative aspects about the movie. However, I can't really think of anything good about this movie with the exception of Violet (The punk rock chick) being cute. I suppose I should just get started on listing off everything wrong with the movie.
All slashers typically follows a few guides. One of the more obvious guides is to introduce the audience to the main cast and let us the viewers get to know them. As long as the characters are written well, we will care about them which will make us care about their death or the suspense of whether they will live or not. However, this film didn't have any real direction to it. For so many of the characters, we only meet for a few moments or scenes and then they're killed. Three times, pairs of couples are killed off in the very seen we're introduced to them. What's the point of meeting these people if they're dead already? It's not like we can care about them after just a minute or two. I had a hard enough time coming up with a list of main characters because with the exception of Tommy, no one is followed throughout the entire movie. We're introduced to some characters who we get the idea that thy will become important, but then we don't see them again until their deaths. If this movie wasn't so determined to show as many deaths as possible, we could of gotten some character development.
Speaking of killing, coming off of an extremely gory Part 4, we're given a gore free Part 5. Take out the nudity and drug use, you're left with a PG film. There wasn't a single death where we saw the weapon go into a body. If we were lucky, we saw the weapon in the killer's hands, then we cut to the victim's body after hit. However, there's several kills where we don't see the weapon before hand and we only get a very brief shot of the body after the cut. A few times, the way they shot showing the damage, the audience couldn't even tell where a person was stabbed. If that wasn't bad enough, there's very little blood. Even when a person is stabbed, the body only has a few spots of blood around the wound. In one of the more outrageous deaths, Demon's girlfriend has her through cut. Once we see it, there isn't even blood around her neck. We even still see her breathing! If you have your neck cut and you're still breathing, your neck should be gushing blood everywhere. In the year since Part 4, the MPAA cracked down on the series and hacked this film in pieces.
Then there's Roy and this nonsense of him becoming the fake Jason to avenge his son's death. First, why did Roy keep the fact that Joey was his son a secret? How much can he love the kid when Joey is living in various orphanages and now halfway homes? Assuming he had a reason, Why was Roy going after so many people who had no involvement at all in Joey's death? On top of that, out of all the people he killed or attempted to kill, there was one noticeable person left out - Vic! Vic, the person who actually killed Joey isn't even seen again after he kills Joey and is taken away by the police. If you want to kill because you're upset that a loved one was murdered, wouldn't the murderer be at the top of the list of people you want to kill? The other problem with Roy was the writers didn't really know how much involvement he should have in the story as himself. So instead of being a character throughout the entire movie, he's limited to two-three scenes with each one making it painfully obvious that there's some kind of connection to Joey and the deaths. At one point, when a cop is talking to himself about who could of did all these kills, Roy even asks if he was talking to him!
I've been saying it from day one that you don't watch a Friday film for superb acting. However, every character in this movie doesn't feel nature or believable. In the first set of Roy kills, there's two bickering greasers who seems to have come right out of Happy Days. What, was this the 50's?
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Then there's a middle aged balding man who's a cokehead. His girlfriend is a young beautiful bimbo who seems to be so into him even though he's way out of her league. Ethel and her son (The hick old woman and retarded son) are so poorly written that I'm embarrassed to watch their scenes. From the moment Roy stalks Pam, she's a walking cliche of every dumb thing women does in horror movies. At one point, she falls on the wet, muddy ground and continues to crawl even though Roy is several steps behind her. She had plenty of time to stand back up and run, but instead she allows Roy to catch up to her. Joey is such an over gimmick cliche of a fat guy that he has candy bars in every pocket with just a little part showing out of the pocket. The filmmakers further didn't think we'd realize he was a fat loser, so they added chocolate stains on his face.
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. I could go on and name every other poorly written character, but that would honestly leave me to name every single one.
Without spending a single day in film school, I fully believe that I could write a better script than this piece of shit. Not taking anything away from these Friday films, but they're not the hardest ones to write. Like I said before, I know enough about certain guidelines of how slashers works that I could of made this at least understandable. My movie would most likely end up sucking, but it would at least make sense in it's terribleness.
Finally, to wrap this review up, the whole Tommy becomes the new killer of the series issue. The last movie gave out the hint that Tommy would end up being the killer in this film. Alright, that's fine. Making this entire movie with someone else as the killer only to have Tommy once AGAIN be teased to be the new killer at the end of the movie makes this entire chapter pointless. If he's going to be the killer, make him the damn killer. Had they not fucked this up so badly, fans would of been more accepting of the change in the series instead of crying for Jason to return. Tommy as the killer could of worked. After all, he would of been basically Jason. When Halloween 3 came out, fans hated it because it was totally different from what they were used to. Friday didn't need to worry about that. But from the moment they fucked this movie up, they fucked up any chance they had to have anyone besides Jason be the killer. This is exactly how one can kill a series. Not to get ahead of myself, but if it wasn't for the fact that Part 6 was so great, this series would of been dead long ago all because of this movie.
The Extras Death Count: 22
(This includes three dream kills and four killers in all with Roy, Vic, Jason and Tommy Jarvis.)
Boob Count: 4
Best Kill: Junior Hubbard
(While most of these movies have made it hard to pick a best kill, this one is especially hard since all of the death scenes are edited so poorly)
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