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The Story
Taking place sometime recent after Part 5, Tommy and a new friend heads over to Jason's grave. Once and for all, Tommy wants to set his mind at ease about Jason. His plan is to burn the body to cremate him. Ironically, Jason was said to have been cremated in Part 5. Jason is dug out and Tommy decides he needs to stab Jason a few more times for shits and giggles. Tommy rips off a metal pole from the fence and goes to work. With the pole still stuck in Jason, Tommy and his friend talks a little away from the grave. Suddenly, BAM~! lightening strikes the metal pole twice. With that Jason is alive again. Tommy's able to narrowly escape, but his friend is the first victim of zombie Jason.
Tommy heads over to find the Sheriff of Forrest Green (The renamed Crystal Lake), but Sheriff Garris isn't so quick to believe him. Considering the fact that Tommy was in an institution, he thinks Tommy is just crazy. Sheriff Garris drives Tommy to the end of town with the strict orders to never return. While Garris continues to believe that Tommy is just seeking a little attention, Jason slaughters a few more people in fun ways.
Elsewhere, we have Megan (Sheriff Garris' daughter) and some of her friends as the new counselors for Camp Forrest Green. Strangely, two of the main counselors never arrived, but I'm sure they're safe in this Jason ran woods. For the first (And only, with the exception of flashbacks) time ever in the series, we have children actually coming to camp. Jason does he usual antics while Megan believes Tommy and offers her help. The final showdown comes to back to camp (Which based on the layout, may supposed to be the camp from Part 1) with the cops trying to find Jason while Tommy and Megan has a plan to finally kill Jason for good. From reading a few books about the dead coming back to live, Tommy believes to put Jason to rest for good involves bringing him back to his original burial ground - Crystal Lake. Through a lot of fighting, Tommy is able to wrap a metal chain around Jason's neck. The chain is connected to a heavy rock that keeps Jason down at the bottom of the lake. Megan pulls a potentially drowned Tommy back to the beach. A little CPR later, Tommy spits up the water and all of the children cheers in excitement.
The movie ends with another shot of Jason. Eyes still wide open...waiting.
The Characters Tommy Jarvis - Coming back for a record third time, Tommy still has some craziness, but he's a virtually different character. He's less reclusive and more normal hero for a horror movie. Much more enjoyable now that he's no longer in zombie mode.
Megan Garris - Daughter of Sheriff Garris, Megan is fearless, balls to the wall kind of chick. She's not a slut, but she's also not a prude. Possibly my favorite female character of the series.
Sheriff Garris - Garris seems like a fairly decent Sheriff who lets his fear of having everyone become scared of Jason/murders again that it clouds his judgment when Tommy first comes to him. Even though he is an antagonist to Tommy, he's still likable.
Paula - The mother-like counselor. A likable version of Brenda from Part 1.
Sissy - The spunky token black person that has now been injected in the Friday films. She's at least not a walking cliche of every black stereotype like the three black people were in Part 5.
Cort - The horny bastard of the group. Seems to stick to trashy slut which makes him an obvious kill. Still enjoyable though.
Jason Voorhees - No longer human, Jason is now an angry and violent zombie version of his former self.
The Verdict
As I said in the last verdict, Part 6 being good was so important for the survival of the series. Part 5 had made enough money to warrant another sequel, but if this one once again alienated the fans, fans wouldn't be returning in such numbers. The first thing the filmmakers did was something Halloween 4 creators would borrow two years later. Right in the sub-title, they made it clear that Jason was back with 'Jason Lives'. How they went about bringing him back may of not been the most realistic or the best written, but it accomplished it's goal. Jason was back and he was back quickly, so now we could get on with the story.
The first thing that really pops out at a viewer is how different Tommy Jarvis acts from Part 5. With Jason coming back as the full time killer for the series, the whole plan of Tommy becoming the killer was scraped. Due to that, Tommy no longer needed to be on the brink of insanity. What the writers did was actually pretty smart. Everything in the movie suggests that Part 5 didn't happen which is a true blessing. However, as you can ask any diehard Halloween fan, a lot of fans hates the idea of certain entries having to be ignored. So even though Part 5 is somewhat ignored, the script has a few lines about Tommy being in an institution. For viewers of the last movie, that institution would be where Tommy would end up after leaving the hospital from the attacks of Roy. However, the institution can always be assumed to be the place Tommy went after killing Jason and where he stayed without the Roy murders happening at all. Either way you look at it, it's a smart way to ignore a horrible movie and one that following along would of hurt this one. Speaking of Tommy, he's played by 80's horror god, Thom Mathews. Matthews is best known for the roles in Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2. He's everything Tommy wasn't in Part 5. Lively, energetic, funny and actually wants to live.
Unlike other Fridays, Part 6 doesn't present itself as solely a fright film. In fact, I would put it in the category of horror comedy along with Return of the Living Dead. The film doesn't take itself too serious. After all, you have a dead serial killer now as a zombie, killing a couple dozen people in various ways. You might as well have some fun with it. What's great is that they found a way to keep the film lighthearted, yet you can still take the main characters serious. Jason is a good comparison for how you make a horror movie funny, but serious at the same time. Part 3 showed Jason as a complete cliche joke. The scene near the end when he has an ax sticking out of his head and he's trying to grab Chris makes him look like a classic Universal monster of the 30's. Decades later, it's just corny, not funny. For this, Jason's comedy was less of him performing the comedy, but rather the comedy finding him. Whether it was Jason tilting his head at the sight of the RV rocking back and forth or the best kill (Look below for the gif of it). Here you had this monster in these events which aren't meant to be funny, but with Jason playing such the straight man, it's pretty funny.
It's odd that in a sequel I hold to such a standard as I do this, that it lacks two of the biggest things that Friday films are known for - gore and nudity. Much like with Part 5, it appears as if the MPAA enjoyed forcing some cuts to limit the gore. However, we are shown a lot more gore and more time for the kills. What we lack in gore, we make up in unique kills. Jason becomes more of an artist with his kills. No longer is he satisfied with just stabbing his victim. Instead, he enjoys shaping them into a human pretzel. As for the nudity, I believe this is the only Friday film not to show a single female nipple. Nada, zilch, none. We're even shown a sex scene, yet the girl has her shirt on. Amazingly, while watching this, I didn't miss the nudity at all. Had this film been made today, I feel it probably would of been able to get away with a PG-13 rating. Without tons of gore, nudity and the death scenes being mostly cartoony over the top, I can't see a reason to give it a R rating. Which only adds in the greatness of this movie. They managed to make the best Friday film while making the most tame.
Perhaps one of the reasons for not missing the nudity is Megan played by Jennifer Cooke. Cooke is sexy, fun and provides all the eye candy a Friday film needs without showing any excess skin. Who wouldn't love a girl who would speed away from the cops and keep shoving you down to her crotch so no one sees you?
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Megan is a perfect mix of being her own woman, but still having that innocence and vulnerability once her father dies. I was surprised to learn that this was her last acting gig. She seemed to have the talent to go further on with her career.
One small thing that I liked was how even though Jason was this murderous figure, some of the deaths seemed to have some justification beyond the normal 'I'll kill anyone who comes in the woods or anyone who reminds me of the girl who killed my mom." The deaths of Burt and the drunk Martin were done because of how they were hurting Jason's woods. Whether it was using a machete to randomly branches up or attempting to throw a empty bottle on the ground. Jason shows off the side where he's more protective of what happens to his woods than just being a murderous anti-hero. Add in Jason breaking up the two sex moments, it seems as if Jason wants a pure woods. Since he's so fucked up in the head, he feels as if killing is alright since the people are messing up his woods. It goes back to Ginny's thoughts about Jason not having the mindset to understand what death really is about.
Overall, I have a difficult time finding anything bad to say about this movie. It accomplished everything it needed to do and provided a nice blend of humor with scares. While Part 4 is the model for any gory sequel, Part 6 is the model for any horror comedies to go by.
The Extras Death Count: 18
(At this point, the most Jason killed in a movie.)
Boob Count: 0
(That's right mom and dad, you can watch Junior watch without any worry.)
Best Kill: Burt
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