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The Story
With Jason still at the bottom of Crystal Lake...err Forrest Green Lake it was only a matter of time before he found a way out. In comes Tina Shepard, played by 80's Scream Queen, Lar Park-Lincoln (Who appears to be making a career rebirth currently). One night, young Tina's parents were arguing with her drunk father beating her mother. Tina would run off to the lake and get on their little boat. While her father would run after her, Tina's anger would cause her telekinesis to kick in and her father would end up dying when the dock collapses. Cut to several undetermined years in the future, Tina is a teenager who's still trying to deal with the fact that she killed her father. Her doctor, Dr. Crews, prompts Tina and her mother to go back to their cabin on the lake to help deal with her problems. While Tina and her mother are close, Tina has the feeling that Dr. Crews is more interested in Tina's telekinesis abilities than her issues. During one argument, she runs off to the new deck. With her emotions at a fever pitch, she inadvertently breaks the chain that was holding Jason to the bottom of of the lake. Tina ends up passing out at the sight of Jason.
Meanwhile, their neighbors are a bunch of teenagers who came to the lake for a birthday party. However, for the guy it's for, Jason finds first. The group is your basic run of the mill stereotypical characters. As Tina declines into insanity with her doctor saying any sights of a guy in a hockey mask is a delusion, she becomes close to Nick, the cousin of the dead birthday guy. Some sex, drugs and betrayals occur with Jason spoiling everyone's fun by hacking people up again. In the final battle, it's Jason vs the telekinesis powers of Tina. For the first time, Jason, ends up being powerless with a "Victim" who can fight him using only her mind. In the basement, Tina pours gasoline everywhere with her mind and lights everyone, including Jason, on fire. Jason isn't dead though, although I guess he technically is undead, and the fight continues on the dock where all of this began years ago. At the height of emotional distress, Tina brings her father back to life, looking very good for someone dead for years, and he drags Jason down into the lake once and for all. Jason is finally beaten...until the next sequel.
The Characters Tina - Heroine of the film with a lot of emotional baggage. Over the course of the film she gets close with Nick while drawing back from Dr. Crews. Her power of telekinesis makes her one of Jason's toughest foes.
Amanda Shepard - Tina's mother who is sucked into Dr. Crews' deceptions while thinking he only cares about helping Tina.
Dr. Crews - Tina's doctor who brings the Shepard's back to their cabin by the lake. With Tina, he sees dollar signs exploiting her powers so he purposely messes with her already unstable mind.
Nick - Hero of the film with him being the only party member who seems normal enough. Fairly bland character though. Relationship with Tina.
Melissa - Rich, snobby, bitch of the group. While trying to get Nick's attention, she purposely tries getting under the skin of Tina.
Jason Voorhees - Same old same old.
The Verdict
The decline of the series started with part 5. As I've been saying, all it takes for a series to be derailed is one horrible movie. While part 6 was a very good sequel, money wise, it wasn't the kind of hit that 1-4 were. With that, the series took a new turn. Since Jason was apparently not enough of a draw (Bullshit, by the way), the filmmakers decided that additions had to be made to the films. For this film, it was Jason vs Telekinesis. While it was a fresh idea, the way it played out just detracted from the movie. The main thing it hurts is the character of Tina, herself. Lar Park-Lincoln was a fairly good actress, but her character was too one-dimensional. This may be some small slasher, but you don't want your heroine to be so limited.
Once again, the MPAA had their fun in editing out gore and death scenes. With this being at the height of the war on horror movies, slashers really suffered. The movie still shows a lot more gore than part 5 though. I have heard a lot of talk about a desire to see an unedited part 7 about how it's a lot better. While the MPAA getting into cuts, they're "To blame" for the best kill in the history of the series. The sleeping bag kill (Look below for the gif) was originally several hits against the tree. With the cuts, it was forced down to only one. That one hit made it look pretty damn impressive.
After the fun of part 6, this one lacks virtually all fun. Instead, the writers went down the path of trying to make a serious horror movie. The problem with that is unless you have a good script, talented actors and a smart director, you're bound to fail. While Jason is fun, it's never good when he's the only character worth caring about. You're supposed to care about the deaths, but with so many lame characters, you're cheering for Jason.
With the first four trying to stay fairly connected to each other, this film really showed little care to be an extension to part 6. The town is randomly named Crystal Lake again which doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it. Another problem was the location of Jason. While they never show Jason right at the dock of the cottage, it's assumed that he's there or at least nearby. However, from the last film, we know he drowned at the camp. Without any mention of a nearby camp, the question comes up of how Jason ends up at the cottage. Was Jason perhaps always there? Had the camp went out of business and all of the buildings taken down with the cottages being put up? If so, that would mean Jason had been in the water for roughly a full decade. For the sake of continuity, I'm going to assume that the camp was near by and over time Jason may of been able to move along on the bottom of the lake. The other thing I can't understand is how in all of these films, no one really knows of Jason Voorhees. I don't care if it's been five, ten or fifty years, when there was a serial killer in your little city, people should know of him. This consent 'Who's Jason' is ridiculous.
Finally, it should be noted that this is the beginning of the Kane Hodder era of Jason Voorhees. Kane is known as the most popular Jason amongst fans of Friday. While Jason was perfect for what Jason evolved to become (Angrier and less stealth) I can't help, but feel he's only beloved because he was in a lot of Friday's. Perhaps it's because of all the accounts of Kane being a prick to his fans, but especially when you compare him to past Jason's he's basically a midget Jason. Jason is supposed to be a character who has some sympathy. Kane's time as Jason was one where he becomes just another serial killing. Killing for the sake of killing and not for the reason he originally started. Then again, it's probably just because Kane is an asshole to the very people who made him famous in the world of horror.
The Extras Death Count: 15
(16 if you count the death of Tina's father. Considering we don't know the fate of Jason, his death isn't included.)
Boob Count: 4
(It's mostly the same girl, but I'm not complaining.)
Best Kill: Judy
(Best viewed on a dark skin)
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