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):
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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!)
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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!
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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
Roger (William Katt) finds a nightmare world in his new house and if he survives it, he will get the ultimate gift![/caption]