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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Adam Marcus
1993
Where the **** is Jason: Part II
Aaaannnnd it's another mess, and another misleading title as Jason spends no time in hell. He's also hardly in this movie at all, unless you count the glorious Kane Hodder cameo as security guard #2 sporting a curly mullet and a smart mouth.
This particular mess opens with an FBI sting operation on Jason in Camp Crystal Lake. No, it's never explained how Jason's back there, or how we got from Jason being taken care of with toxic sludge to the FBI calling in an air-strike on Jason yeah that happened but at the end of that we're left with Jason blown to bits except for his still huge black heart, that just can't stop beating...romantic, I know. More romantic still that the coroner felt moved to eat that beating heart, and so mad body-jumping Jason begins. Oh, and there's a randomly sadistic,cowboy hat wearing bounty hunter by the name of Creighton Duke, out to kill Jason once and for good. He informs everyone that mad body-jumping Jason (who transfers himself from body to body via demon-snake) trying to get to the remnants of his family so he can be reborn.
There's no way around this - it's a silly movie. This, along with Jason X, is basically the a new studio pissing about waiting for Freddy vs Jason to work as a concept. Sean Cunningham apparently told the 23 year-old director, "just get rid of the damn hockey mask." What? *******.
So. The parts I liked. Kane Hodder as the security guard and the nanoseconds of Jason we actually see. He had a line or two of meta humour that I liked (particularly the one in which he refers to Jason as "nothing but a big ole pussy."
), and it's cool that in a movie that feels a little like a **** you to Jason fans, it looks like he had some fun. The fact that the screenwriter also got to be killed in this movie is just...
yeah. I like these two things about this movie. The male nudity. Yep, that's a bonus.
Not sure how I feel about the Evil Dead stuff getting involved in this mythos. In this movie we see the Necronomicon from Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, implying some kind of tie-in.
What I disliked was...the entire premise. The absence of Jason. I didn't like Creighton Duke or his finger fetish. Really didn't care for Jason's long lost family. Some pretty decent kills, but without actual Jason, it's not the same. The way the hockey mask seems to have grown into Jason's face. What.
*sigh*
A big old mango-sized crap.
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Adam Marcus
1993
Where the **** is Jason: Part II
Aaaannnnd it's another mess, and another misleading title as Jason spends no time in hell. He's also hardly in this movie at all, unless you count the glorious Kane Hodder cameo as security guard #2 sporting a curly mullet and a smart mouth.
This particular mess opens with an FBI sting operation on Jason in Camp Crystal Lake. No, it's never explained how Jason's back there, or how we got from Jason being taken care of with toxic sludge to the FBI calling in an air-strike on Jason yeah that happened but at the end of that we're left with Jason blown to bits except for his still huge black heart, that just can't stop beating...romantic, I know. More romantic still that the coroner felt moved to eat that beating heart, and so mad body-jumping Jason begins. Oh, and there's a randomly sadistic,cowboy hat wearing bounty hunter by the name of Creighton Duke, out to kill Jason once and for good. He informs everyone that mad body-jumping Jason (who transfers himself from body to body via demon-snake) trying to get to the remnants of his family so he can be reborn.
There's no way around this - it's a silly movie. This, along with Jason X, is basically the a new studio pissing about waiting for Freddy vs Jason to work as a concept. Sean Cunningham apparently told the 23 year-old director, "just get rid of the damn hockey mask." What? *******.
So. The parts I liked. Kane Hodder as the security guard and the nanoseconds of Jason we actually see. He had a line or two of meta humour that I liked (particularly the one in which he refers to Jason as "nothing but a big ole pussy."
), and it's cool that in a movie that feels a little like a **** you to Jason fans, it looks like he had some fun. The fact that the screenwriter also got to be killed in this movie is just... yeah. I like these two things about this movie. The male nudity. Yep, that's a bonus.
WARNING: spoilers below
I liked the imagery at the end of the hockey mask in the dirt, seconds before Freddy's grabs it.
Not sure how I feel about the Evil Dead stuff getting involved in this mythos. In this movie we see the Necronomicon from Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, implying some kind of tie-in.
What I disliked was...the entire premise. The absence of Jason. I didn't like Creighton Duke or his finger fetish. Really didn't care for Jason's long lost family.
Some pretty decent kills, but without actual Jason, it's not the same. The way the hockey mask seems to have grown into Jason's face. What.*sigh*
A big old mango-sized crap.