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The Story

Like before, the film opens up with showing what happened in the last film. In fact, we get the entire Jason's shack scene shown in it's entirety without any breaks. They finally give the viewer a reason to watch this part as they show Jason alive and moving. With that, cut to the disco music for the Friday theme. Yes, the theme was disco. Jason heads over to a house/grocery store of a married couple (No idea of the ages since the man seems in his 40's while his wife appears to be mid 20's playing an older woman). Jason steals some clothes and gets in a couple new kills to break in his new gear.

From there, we're introduced to the new cast. An odd ensemble if there ever was one. A former couple trying to see if their flame still burns, a dating couple who has a baby on the way, the blind date of a Latino girl with her Seth Rogan loser of a date and finally, Chong (Of Cheech and Chong) and his pot smoking better half. The ages of everyone is also unknown. The potheads appear to be in the their 30's while everyone else in the 20's. Everyone heads to Crystal Lake to smoke some pot and have some fun.

For Chris, our assumed heroine, it's a bitter sweet moment because of her past with the lake. You see, two years ago, she fell asleep in the woods and a man (Jason) attacked her. She blacked out and upon waking up, she was back in her bed. Did Jason put her back in bed? Parents come and get her? Did Jason rape her? We're never given a real answer. Going into town, Shelly and Vera (The Seth Rogan loser and Latino girl) stops to get some groceries. At a store, they encounter some bikers. To prove that he's a man, Shelly hits the motorcycles a couple of times and speeds away. The bikers aren't too happy so they eventually follow to perform some evil biker misdeeds to the camp/farm/whatever the place the group is staying at. However, Jason intersects them and has some fun with the moronic bikers.

One by one, the friends are killed off. Some random sex. More deaths. Back to Shelly, one of the main reasons why he's such a loser is because everyone hates him. He tends to love faking his death. It's during this night he puts on a hockey mask to scare his blind date into loving him. Shockingly, that doesn't work. However, what does work is Jason upon killing Shelly has a new mask to cover his grotesque face. Chris and Rick, her old farmer boyfriend (Why are there farms so close to a lake?) comes back to camp/farm/whatever this place is to find everyone dead. Rick quickly succumbs to the same fate. As for Chris, she realizes that this hockey mask wearing killer is the same guy who attacked her two years ago. How does she know? Well, Jason pulled up his mask and stuck out his tongue at her. A battle continues in the barn where there's hay, but there had never been any animals. Chris uses an ax to kill Jason just as the killer was "killed" in the last two movies. She then throws herself into a canoe and drifts off into the lake (Which is more like a 10 foot wide stream). She wakes up with several fake attacks only to realize her mind was playing tricks on her. Just then, Mrs. Voorhees pops out of the lake that is really just a 10 foot stream and attacks Chris. It turns out that that too was only a dream. The cops on the scene even informs us of that. We're shown one final glimpse of Jason dead.

The Characters

Chris - The supposed heroine of the movie. She has some sort of past with Jason, but even she doesn't know what happened. Not likable and an odd choice for the main female lead.

What she brings to the movie: Jason is a rapist?

Rick - The dumb hick boyfriend of Chris. Seems to be a more manly version of Paul from Part 2, but the acting is too bland to care about.

What he brings to the movie: The longing to see Steve Christy in his cut off jean short shorts. At least that was funny.

Shelly - The Seth Rogan lookalike who has such low self esteem he feels the need to annoy everyone to get some attention. When told he's annoying, he informs us that it's better than being a nobody.

What he brings to the movie: The hockey mask.

Vera - This Latino seems to be interesting and a potentially good heroine, but her only real scenes is with Shelly. That instantly makes her part horrible.

What she brings to the movie: Flying arrow.

Andy and Debbie - The new sex couple in the series. Oddly, they're also expected parents which makes them a strange pick to be the oversexed ones.

What they bring to the movie: Hammock sex~!

Ali - The leader of the bikers. This black bad ass is the only one in this film that has a little charisma and personality.

What he brings to the movie: The first black man's death of the series.

Jason Voorhees - The deranged momma's boy killer is back to his mischief.

What he brings to the movie: The death to all of these annoying characters.


The Verdict

I have a soft spot in my heart for this movie. This was one of the first horror movies I can remember watching. However, it is a horrible movie with nothing making sense.

First off, the 3D nature of the movie takes away any scares when they're trying so hard to make things pop out of the movie. 3D may of been a popular fad in the 80's, but just because it's a fad doesn't make it a good idea. In 2009, it comes off as hokey and cheesy.

Another gripe would be the flashback. Part 3 was released just a year after Part 2. Are our memories so poor that we need to be shown the entire ending for the previous film? A few quick clips of the ending would of been enough (Although still unneeded), but why show the entire ending? The way these filmmakers are doing the flashbacks, it makes watching the previous film pointless.

Whenever you have a heroine of a movie, you need to be especially careful of how you write her character. Too boring or bitchy and people will want to see her die. Going for the sympathy route is good enough idea. However, what was the point of Chris' past with Jason? It just made everything more confusing and with it being the only thing that Chris was known for, the audience doesn't care about the lead. When you don't care about the lead, you don't care if the killer wins or not. If you don't care who wins, you have a movie that no one cares about. That...is a problem.

What makes this film pointless is how we've seen everything already. How is it that after just three movies, the writers are still doing the same things over and over? This is basically a remake with how much material was stolen from the first and second. Each movie has the same exact ending. Lead woman is the last one alive after boyfriend dies. Her and the killer fights it out and she somehow wins with a knife blow to the head area. She goes to a safe place, but the killer (Whether past, present or future) grabs her one last time that turns out to be a dream. The films end with the cops talking to each other detailing what happened. A good amount of the deaths are just previously done (Better) ones.

The only real reason to watch the movie is to see how Jason found his hockey mask. However, since we don't even see Jason grab the mask (One moment Shelly's wearing it and in the next scene Jason is wearing it) it's not even worth watching it for that.


The Extras

Death Count: 12
(13 if you count the unborn baby that Debbie carried and 14 if you count Jason himself.)

Boob Count: 1
(The shots of them are never the focus of the camera.)

Best Kill: Vera


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Well done again. Have you ever thought about doing this for a living?

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With the amount of times I've been cringing at what I type up? Hell no.
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This is a movie that falls under the "so bad it's good" category for me. Like you said, it's a pretty horrible movie, but I still can't help but have a soft spot for it. The cheesiness is actually kind of entertaining, especially if you haven't seen it in years or at all.

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The Story

In a similar, but vastly better opening, we're reshown Paul's campfire tale about Jason from Friday the 13th as clips of the three films are shown at appropriate moments of the story. The story heads back to the camp/farm/whatever the place the dead group was staying at as Jason is loaded up in an ambulance with the thought that he's still dead. Night and rain adds to the mood. At the morgue, a creepy and horny the doctor tries to get a little action with a nurse with Jason in the room. The smell of attempted sex in the air brings Jason back to live. Two deaths later and Jason is a free man.

Once the question as to how Jason returns to life is answered, we're introduced to two new groups. The first is your typical Friday gang of horny friends who might as well wear shirts that say 'Kill me Jason!' No one is particularly interesting with the exception of Jimmy (Played by Crispin Glover of Back to the Future and Charlie Angel's). Jimmy is your perfect lovable loser who brings comedy without being annoying. The group ends up meeting a pair of brunette twins with one of them just screaming out 'Slut' if there ever was one. The six friends moves in to a house on Crystal Lake next to the Jarvis'. Trish Jarvis instantly has the feel of the heroine that the girls in the house next door lacks. Meanwhile, Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) is the ten year old horror lover who makes his own masks.

As the killings continue, we're introduced to another outsider of a new category. Rob Dier is a mysterious backpacker who's supposedly hunting for bears. In reality, he's hunting the big bear of Crystal Lake - Jason. Rob turns out to be the brother of Sandra Dier, the incredibly hot counselor that was killed by Jason during sex in Part II. With Rob on their side, the Jarvis' realize that Jason is in town and their new friends aren't fairing too well. The battle ensues at both houses as young Tommy Jarvis learns the back story of Jason from the newspaper clippings that Rob has collected. With his sister in jeopardy, Tommy shaves his hair off to resemble young Jason. Coming after Jason, Jason is freaked out at the sight of his former self in front of him. This allows Tommy to pull out a machete and go to town on Jason. In one of the smartest scenes in the history of horror cinema, while embracing his sister after seemingly killing Jason, Tommy keeps his eye on Jason's body. At the first twitch of Jason's fingers, Tommy grabs the machete again and cuts Jason up several more times. 'DIE! DIE! DIE' Tommy screams as Jason is killed once and for all.

Cut to the hospital as Trish is being fixed up from some wounds. The doctors reassure Trish that Tommy's crazed state was a result of the need to protect her and that he will be alright. Tommy comes in and the siblings have one more embrace. The film ends with Tommy's eyes opening with that same crazed look in them. Uh-oh...

The Characters

Tommy Jarvis - A young boy who's obsessed with monsters and things of horror nature. With his parents divorced, he has stepped up to be the man of the house at such a young age. At the same time, he's still young enough in his mindset that he presents a new challenge to Jason.

Trish Jarvis - The older sister of Tommy, Trish is your "Good girl" heroine in slashers. She quickly takes a liken to Rob and is pushed to new extremes once Jason comes around. A huge step up from Chris in Part 3. She's more of an Annie (Part 1) than a Ginny (Part II) in terms of fierce independence.

Rob Dier - The first of his kind. Rob is the first non-cop who is actually coming after Jason. The older brother of Sandra from Part II, Rob wants to avenge the death of his sister. Rob becomes close with the Jarvis' upon meeting them.

Jimmy - Described as a 'Dead Fuck' when he questions why his ex dumped him, Jimmy plays the role of the hopeless loser who is just trying to get a break. A love/hate relationship with his best friend, Ted, the one who came up with the Dead Fuck nickname. Jimmy is desperate to find a girl to care about.

Ted - Nicknamed Teddy Bear, Ted is your classic horny asshole. Unlike other horror assholes, Ted has zero luck with the ladies. After failing with both twins, Ted spends most of the bloodshed night watching old pornos on film.

Sara - The would be heroine had the movie been without the Jarvis'. Sara is the virgin and modest girl of her group of friends, but over the course of the film becomes more outgoing. She's a lot like Chris from Part 3 where she's not interesting in the slightest. One of the wisest moves in Friday history by keeping her from becoming the heroine.

Tina and Terri - The twins of the movie. The one is supposed to be more beautiful (Uh...they're identical twins
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) and more slutty. None of this even becomes apparent until their deaths draws near.

Paul and Samantha - The would be sex couple. Neither is memorable and the only thing interesting is the fact that they don't have sex. Paul is torn between caring about Samantha and the slutty twin putting herself out for him to take.

Jason Voorhees - Back from the dead for the first time, Jason is angrier than ever. No longer does he wait in the shadows of the trees, but rather goes straight after anyone he can find.

The Verdict

After a disappointing Part 3, The Final Chapter was touted as just that, the final episode in the Jason Voorhees saga. For this final movie, they went all out giving us exactly what Friday films are supposed to be about: fun kills, nudity and tons of blood. The last thing is one of the better aspects of this movie. With Tom Savini back for the first time since the original, the gore and fx was so much better than the other movies. The deaths were gruesomely fun just as they should be.

The best part of the film was just how creative it was compared to the other sequels. For the first time in the series, the writers didn't follow the exact outline of the first film. Had they, Tommy and Rob wouldn't have been in the movie and Sara would of been the one to kill Jason at the end. This goes back to my previous thoughts where it's so important not to be stuck doing the same thing over and over again. Yet, simple changes can do wonders for a film. Tommy Jarvis is an especially well written character. Children in horror movies can be difficult. They can generally be annoying and with them being unable to kill, they lack anything interesting. Yet Tommy realistically acts as Jason's biggest threat in the entire series. He's mature enough not to be calm, however; he's young enough to not be caught up in sex and other things that blinds you from realizing trouble is coming. Tommy is basically a young male version of Ginny.

While I did like the idea of a character avenging a previous death, the way they went about Rob wasn't great. For one, they built him up to have a big time showdown with Jason. What we got was Rob quickly dying once the fight began. While it was a surprise from what would have been expected, it's not what I wanted to see. Going deeper into the character's back story, it doesn't make much sense. With this film starting the day after Part 3 ended and Part 3 started the day after Part II ended, that would of given Rob just a few days to find out this his sister died, to find out who did it, research Jason and to come to Crystal Lake. Up until Part II, Jason had remained in hiding with no one even knowing he existed. So with the exception of any newspaper clippings of his drowning and the eventual news coverage of his mother's killings, there wasn't anything to report on Jason. Even if Rob did live near by, I think it's doubtful he could of talked to Ginny already. Chris is out of the question since he's in the woods looking for Jason the day of the cops finding her. Finally, add in the fact that his family just got the news of Sandra's death. Are you really going to leave your family to hunt for the man who killed her when they're in such an early stage of grieve? It's a great idea for a character, but I'm very surprised no one from production picked up on this mistake.

Speaking of mistakes, the end of Part 3 was the cops showing up at day break. Yet, in this, the ambulance to take the dead bodies and Jason away comes at night. Granted I don't have any knowledge about these kinds of things, but would you really leave bodies around a crime scene for a full day? That's roughly eighteen hours that Jason had been laying on the floor of the barn. This is why you have script supervisors. I can understand that night scenes are better for atmosphere, but it's these kinds of mistakes that leads people to look down on horror films.

As far as character go, Jimmy has to be one of my favorite in the entire series. Crispin Glover shows exactly why he went on to have a successful career while everyone else (Sorry Feldman) didn't. His final few minutes are just the icing on the cake of a life of a loser. For the rest of his friends, no one was interesting at all. It has to be the weakest group of teens in the series thus far. Which is why Trish and Tommy are such a crucial part of the film's success.

I'll touch on this more on the next movie, but this was intended to be Jason's final movie. The ending implied that Tommy was now blood crazed and would become the killer. I'm not sure how the series would of differed with Tommy as the killer instead. I assume logic would of been the main reason with the idea of one man being unable to continue to kill people time after time without being killed himself. However, you could of killed off the one killer and bring on another one to do the same exact thing. As I said though, there will be more time to talk about this later.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is regarded by fans as one of the better Friday's. To this point, it's easily the best film with only Part 2 rivaling it. Even with all the issues I talked about above, it's a fun ride and one that pretty much set the standard for what a slasher sequel should be.

The Extras

Death Count: 14
(Including Jason, this is the highest death count to date.)

Boob Count: 5
(This doesn't include a few more from the old porno that Ted was watching.)

Best Death: Jason Voorhees


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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?
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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.
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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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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?
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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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Grade: 9
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Bigpapa42

This is so very much making me want to watch through the whole series again... Even the terrible ones. Good work, Jim.

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The Brain

This is easily my favorite in the series. The production value is just head and shoulders above any of the prior ones. The music is also much better, with Harry Manfredini bringing in some great new themes to go along with the new unstoppable Jason.

Edit: I just watched it again and didn't realize how many subtle things I missed last time I saw it. In the graveyard scene, Tommy's friend wants to leave because his, "heart can't take much more of this". Jason ripped his heart out a couple minutes later. Also when it shows the kids sleeping, a few of them get close-ups. The last kid they show is asleep with a book by Sartre on his chest. Smart kid. Also when Tommy is talking to Meagan from the pay phone, he's at a place called Karloff's General Merchandise. Nice tip of the hat.

/anal

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