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F**********************************K I just lost the entire review I wrote on this. So here's take two. Still mad I lost the first take.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Tom McLoughlin
1986
"I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."
Tommy Jarvis, driven by a desperate desire to make sure Jason Voorhees is really dead (hey, didn't Part V tell us he was cremated?), digs up Jason's body and pokes it a bit. Then lightning strikes and we're back on track with a much meaner, far less vulnerable and dare I say charged? Jason. And, like bears, he's not a fan of being poked.
Firstly: this Jason? Niiiice!
The most frightening of them all so far, in my opinion. And while the previous installment in the franchise didn't feature enough Jason, this one features a **** ton. Perhaps too many shots of him walking to the location of his next kill, but among those, a couple of cool images are to be found, like him standing atop a burning RV.
BAD. ASS. *finger snap*
There's no nudity in this one (awwww), and not all that much gore (AAAWWWW), but the movie doesn't suffer for it. If anything, I'd give it some shots from Jason's POV, as I missed that. I get the impression the director either watched every film in the franchise in one day, or none of them but the first.
Either feels like it would result in this kind of comeback.
Things that give me giggle-snorts include:
I almost fell under the broken marathon spell with Part V again, but persevered! And I'm glad I did. This felt like a defibrilating jolt to the series and I had fun. It felt great to have Jason back. Bigger, badder, stronger, kind to little girls. 
It's me you want, remember?????
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Tom McLoughlin
1986
"I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."
Tommy Jarvis, driven by a desperate desire to make sure Jason Voorhees is really dead (hey, didn't Part V tell us he was cremated?), digs up Jason's body and pokes it a bit. Then lightning strikes and we're back on track with a much meaner, far less vulnerable and dare I say charged? Jason. And, like bears, he's not a fan of being poked.
Firstly: this Jason? Niiiice!
The most frightening of them all so far, in my opinion. And while the previous installment in the franchise didn't feature enough Jason, this one features a **** ton. Perhaps too many shots of him walking to the location of his next kill, but among those, a couple of cool images are to be found, like him standing atop a burning RV.BAD. ASS. *finger snap*
There's no nudity in this one (awwww), and not all that much gore (AAAWWWW), but the movie doesn't suffer for it. If anything, I'd give it some shots from Jason's POV, as I missed that. I get the impression the director either watched every film in the franchise in one day, or none of them but the first.
Either feels like it would result in this kind of comeback.Things that give me giggle-snorts include:
WARNING: spoilers below
The metahumour, the foreshadowing DEAD headband, the slick cut from "What, does he think I'm a fathead" to kids gleefully screaming "YEAH!!!!", Jason casually acquiring his machete from a ripped off arm, the triple beheading, the double skewering, the one kid reading Sartre, sex on beat, "If my father sees you, he'll NAIL you!", and finally, Tommy's head being repeatedly shoved into Megan's crotch. There's more but this will do.
I almost fell under the broken marathon spell with Part V again, but persevered! And I'm glad I did. This felt like a defibrilating jolt to the series and I had fun. It felt great to have Jason back. Bigger, badder, stronger, kind to little girls.
It's me you want, remember?????