Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

[caption id="attachment_322" align="alignright" width="258"] Official Score = 1 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Now I am not the kind of guy that generally speaking, advocates a formulaic Horror/Sci-Fi Movie, or just movie in general... I mean I am a huge fan of originality when it comes to the movies that I watch… But I have learned in the past 15 years or so, since I really started getting in to Horror and Science Fiction movies in the whole, that sometimes a little tradition in a movie is actually a good thing…

I learned this when I first started watching one of the Friday The 13th movies each year for Halloween, and realized that although that it is true that the heroes and heroines in these movies are  important... But that at least as far as the Friday The 13th franchise goes, that it really is Jason and Mrs. Voorhees and the hell they went through, and the bloody swath they cut across Camp Crystal Lake (Camp Blood) for decades!

Believe it or not, I discovered this when I watched a Friday The 13th movie that didn’t have Jason in it, and realized that it was nowhere near as good as any of the movies in this series that came before or after it… This movie of course being, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993):

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="255"] Not one of the better movies in this series![/caption]

Written by: Jay Huguely (Magnum P.I.) and Adam Marcus (Who also directed the movie). Starring: John D. LeMay (Friday The 13th: The TV Series), Kari Keegan (Mind Games), Kane Hodder (Jason X), Steven Williams (21 Jump Street), Steven Culp (Thirteen Days), Erin Gray (Silver Spoons), Rusty Schwimmer (Twister), Leslie Jordan (The Help) and Kipp Marcus (Aisle Six).

Now believe it or not, one of the truly great things about this movie, is that it has John D. LeMay in it… The reason that I mention him is the fact that LeMay had been in Friday The 13th: The TV Series, (A series in the late 80s that had been created by Frank Mancuso Jr. (Who helped create the original Friday The 13th movie), and was actually A great TV series that did not have Jason Voorhees in it!)

The movie it self is a descent enough Saturday Midnight Monster Shock Fest for TV, that tells the story of how after being murdered by an FBI sting operation, Jason Voorhees decides to come back to life by willing the coroner of the local morgue to eat Jason’s original heart… (which of course he does so!)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jason finally meeting his maker... or is he?[/caption]

After this is done though, Jason ends up cutting a bloody swath through the whole of Crystal Lake as he tries to make it to his half sister (It is never fully explained, but I suspect that this half sister is Jason’s father’s daughter, but not Mrs. Voorhee’s daughter.) Now he does this because he has to impregnate her (Don’t worry, it is strange, but it is not necessarily some strange sex act).

You see the way it works is through a Voorhees Jason was born, and if he dies, through another Voorhees will he be re-born…

But when is half-sister dies, her daughter and grand daughter are in town and it will be up to the daughter (Keegan) and her ex-boyfriend Steven (LeMay) to protect Jason’s sister’s daughter and grand-daughter from Jason’s attempt to impregnate one of them and being reborn as the evil incarnate that he is!

[caption id="false" align="aligncenter" width="386"] Jason, fresh faced, meets with his half sister...[/caption]

In the end, this entry I hate to say, because I love this series, has a bland and somewhat weird story line, and is definitely not a good entry in to the series, but unless you’re a fan of the whole series, then I don’t recommend watching this movie… It just isn’t very good!

http://youtu.be/Eikhwtqvhbo

 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (2013) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

You know you are a true horror movie fan when you can sit through a truly disturbing horror movie (Not a gore fest, or a thriller, but also not something like a, 'snuff' film), but a truely awesome but disturbing and fun horror movie... The first one for me that I saw was, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)!

Up to this point I had been watching the more traditional horror movies (A Nightmare On Elm Street, Silence Of The Lambs & the like...) But this one I found to be truly disturbing... Not because it is strongly violent... It's a gore fest... Not even out of fear that this type of thing could be real (sadly I have read that elements of this movie are based on serial killer, 'Ed Gein', and his life...)

No this movie was disturbing to me, because it was one of the few horror movies that scared me when I got older... (a circumstance that I assure you when I say that it doesn't happen often,)

Now because of the fact that this movie scared me... (Before I continue, let me say that this movie no longer scares me, but is a movie that I do enjoy), with that said, I decided to dive in to the series in the whole, and I have to admit that I found them to be a lot of fun, and with the later sequels to the original series bringing together such 'A' listers as, 'Viggo Mortensen' (who was in, 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3'), 'Matthew McConaughey' (who was in the final movie of the original series) and, 'Renee Zellweger' (who was also in the final movie of the original series.) I found them to be a lot of fun as well!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="510"] A young, 'Matthew McConaughey' with a young, ' Renee Zellweger' before they became the 'A-listers' of today![/caption]

And the most recent movie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2013), I found to be an interesting way to reboot the original series instead of just remaking the series again...

Written by: Adam Marcus (Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday), Debra Sullivan (Conspiracy), Kirsten Elms (Banshee) & Directed by: John Luessenhop (Lockdown). Starring: Alexandra Daddario (Hall Pass), Dan Yeager (Metal Head), Trey Songz (Step Up 3D), Scott Eastwood (Flags Of Our Fathers), Tania Raymonde (Wild Cherry), Shaun Sipos (Final Destination 2), Keram Malicki-Sanchez (American History X), Thom Barry (Independence Day), Paul Rae (Enterprise), Richard Riehle (Office Space), Bill Moseley (Halloween) & Gunnar Hansen (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers).

This movie is interesting to me, you see this movie isn't a remake, but a reboot... But not a reboot of the first movie, in this case, this movie seems to reboot the series but starting from the end of Tobe Hooper's original 1974 movie, and seeks to reboot the original series as the original series (I have to say that I was really happy to hear this!)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] This new movie seeks to reboot the original series starting from not long after this point in the original movie...[/caption]

But this movie starts off just after the events of the first movie, where the Sawyer family is holed up in their farm during a tense stand off with Sheriff Hooper (Thom Barry)... Now at first it looks like everything is going to go fine... The speaker for the family, 'Drayton Sawyer' (Bill Moseley) & Boss Sawyer (Gunnar Hansen) have decided to let, Jed 'Leatherface' Sawyer (Dan Yeager) be taken in to custody... That was when things started going wrong!

You see Burt Hartman (Paul Rae), and a group of rednecks come out to get their own brand of justice... They end up torching the farm and everyone in it... Or so they think...

Decades later, Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) finds out that not only is she adopted, but that she is the last known living member of the, 'Sawyer clan', and that she had been taken the night that the Sawyer farm had been torched, by one of the redneck couples and raised as their daughter...

[caption id="attachment_2514" align="aligncenter" width="450"] A family reunited...[/caption]

During this time she discovers that she has inherited the estate of the last recognized Sawyer... And so she and a couple of friends decide to drive down to the family estate while they make their way to Louisiana.

On their way, they pick up a hitch hiker by the name of, 'Carl' (Scott Eastwood)... Once they get their though, they are completely blown away by the level of wealth that was bestowed on to Heather... But with all good things there is always a catch right?
And as the bodies start to pile up, it is starting to look like maybe the, 'Sawyer curse' may not actually be over!

In the end, the only thing that I was a little surprised with, was the ending... Other then that, this movie was a great way to reboot the original series!

If you like these type of movies, then I recommend checking this one out, it is a fun one, and I think you might like it!

http://youtu.be/AKqFfkassgo