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Jason Lives:
Friday the 13th Part VI
(directed by Tom McLoughlin, 1986)
In what is probably the best Friday the 13th movie, Jason Voorhees, the zombie serial killer who wears a hockey mask, is dug up from the grave and accidentally (or maybe purposely?) hit by a thunderbolt, which reanimates his rotting, maggot filled corpse back to life and causes him to start coldly murdering every person he stumbles upon - except for some little kids camping on a camp site (they have his sympathy.)
Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) last saw Jason in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (part four) when Tommy was just a little kid (played by Corey Feldman) and Tommy savagely took a machete to Jason over and over again, just to make sure he'd die. In part five, A New Beginning, an older Tommy thought Jason came back, but it was only an imposter wearing the costume. But now, in part six, the REAL Jason is back - all thanks to Tommy digging up his grave just because he had to be SURE that Jason was truly dead. Tommy runs for help to the local sheriff's office, but everyone believes he's crazy, and when bodies start popping up, they believe he's the killer. The sheriff's blonde, sexy daughter is the only one who is willing to believe and help Tommy so that Jason can be finally put to rest. Meanwhile, a campground nearby has just received a new batch of little kids for the summer, but their camp counselors sure are disappearing on them....
This is a really fun and really breezy Friday the 13th sequel that keeps you entertained, laughing, and on the edge of your seat. In the past, I never really cared much for this movie, but now I can see why it's so beloved. This is the best typical Friday the 13th/Jason movie you could possibly see if you just had to see one -- it's got everything from the campground setting, to Jason on a major slaughter spree (with the deaths actually being shown in somewhat gruesome detail), to being more fast paced than some of the other films (this is a good thing), to comedy and originality (Jason even kills a group of people playing paintball) and it's even got them putting Jason down in the lake again. It's not as dark and dreary as many of the other entries, and for that you kind of do lose something, I think, when it comes to Friday the 13th, but it makes up for it in other ways. It even has Jason killing people on board a motorhome, which Jason crashes and climbs out of to stand on top of it, valiantly, flames surrounding him. There's also a very creepy and effective opening scene in a cemetery where Jason comes back to life.
Give it a watch sometime, perhaps during October if that's your time for horror.
Friday the 13th Part VI
(directed by Tom McLoughlin, 1986)
In what is probably the best Friday the 13th movie, Jason Voorhees, the zombie serial killer who wears a hockey mask, is dug up from the grave and accidentally (or maybe purposely?) hit by a thunderbolt, which reanimates his rotting, maggot filled corpse back to life and causes him to start coldly murdering every person he stumbles upon - except for some little kids camping on a camp site (they have his sympathy.)
Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) last saw Jason in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (part four) when Tommy was just a little kid (played by Corey Feldman) and Tommy savagely took a machete to Jason over and over again, just to make sure he'd die. In part five, A New Beginning, an older Tommy thought Jason came back, but it was only an imposter wearing the costume. But now, in part six, the REAL Jason is back - all thanks to Tommy digging up his grave just because he had to be SURE that Jason was truly dead. Tommy runs for help to the local sheriff's office, but everyone believes he's crazy, and when bodies start popping up, they believe he's the killer. The sheriff's blonde, sexy daughter is the only one who is willing to believe and help Tommy so that Jason can be finally put to rest. Meanwhile, a campground nearby has just received a new batch of little kids for the summer, but their camp counselors sure are disappearing on them....
This is a really fun and really breezy Friday the 13th sequel that keeps you entertained, laughing, and on the edge of your seat. In the past, I never really cared much for this movie, but now I can see why it's so beloved. This is the best typical Friday the 13th/Jason movie you could possibly see if you just had to see one -- it's got everything from the campground setting, to Jason on a major slaughter spree (with the deaths actually being shown in somewhat gruesome detail), to being more fast paced than some of the other films (this is a good thing), to comedy and originality (Jason even kills a group of people playing paintball) and it's even got them putting Jason down in the lake again. It's not as dark and dreary as many of the other entries, and for that you kind of do lose something, I think, when it comes to Friday the 13th, but it makes up for it in other ways. It even has Jason killing people on board a motorhome, which Jason crashes and climbs out of to stand on top of it, valiantly, flames surrounding him. There's also a very creepy and effective opening scene in a cemetery where Jason comes back to life.
Give it a watch sometime, perhaps during October if that's your time for horror.