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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
DVD/APPROX. 91 MINS/1993/USA UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 91 MINS/1993/USA UNRATED
3.5
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Well the last time I heard the words Final in a Friday the 13th title, was in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), which Jason was officially
killed off by child superstar Corey Feldman with a machete. Then in part 6 Jason is resurrected back to life and finds his way back home to Camp
Crystal Lake to quench his bloodthirsty rampage by massacring more innocent teenagers. Once again we are hit with another Final Friday would
you believe it! but this time Jason Voorhees soul (that’s right people, I said it, his soul) can transfer host to host, making it harder for those to
know who actually is the real Jason Voorhees.
Now I usually write a little synopsis explaining what the movie is about right about now, but honestly I am not even going to give this movie any
satisfaction whatsoever. Because lets be straight down the line, the damn movie doesn’t even deserve it. Why the hell the screenwriters were
even allowed to portray our monstrous hockey mask slasher in this manner is beyond me. And top it off, I am guessing that director Adam Marcus
had just finished watching Wes Cravens Shocker (1989) and probably thought to himself “Hey, why don't I completely fuck over the Friday the
13th franchise by creating the most ridiculous sequel ever”. Well Marcus here is your award and you have officially proven yourself to be the most
un-liked director ever. If only New Line Cinema officially went with Tobe Hooper who was originally considered to direct this particular sequel, then
just maybe, Hooper could of turned the whole series around for the good. I totally now understand why this series slowly died off after the 4th
sequel, it was to do with poorly picked directors, bad screenwriters, piss poor actors or New Line Cinema wanting to quickly cash in.
With the whole body to body soul jumping thing, this movie is slightly enjoyable when it comes to some of the death scenes. In the Unrated
version you’ll see several brutal kill scenes where a woman having sex with her partner in a tent, has a pole jammed through her back and out of
her stomach, only to be torn in half upwards. A nice heart eating moment, some poor bastard getting their throat slit open and a scene where
some guy gets his arm broken causing the bone to break through the skin. There is plenty more vile death scenes with I wont spoil for you, but if
you enjoy watching the Friday the 13th movies for the gory death scenes, then there is some hope for this movie to be enjoyable to sit through.
A few things some of you might now about is that in the original script written by Jay Huguely, Jason was suppose to of had a evil twin named Elias
who was the killer with included a back-story about Pamela Voorhees's involvement in the occult. They scrapped that idea and left the focus on
directed the storyline towards Jason. Not to mention you also get a quick body count update by a news reporter doing a segment on American
Case File, total number of kills is 83. But according to the Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Wikipedia page, this is an inaccurate body count as
the cruise ship in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the 10 teenagers he
killed where never to be found. So it knocks the total body count down to 76.
Once again we have the mighty Kane Hodder who has played Jason Voorhees since the Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) also
playing a security guard that gets killed off by the possessed coroner. Now get this, even Kane calls Jason "a big old pussy” in this movie.
In the DVD Extras you are presented with a Uncut and the rated R version. The Unrated version happens to run for a solid 3 minutes longer than
the VHS rated R version. So all those wonderful gore scenes you Friday the 13th gorehounds are hungry to see, well finally we can see the movie
in its true form. Now if only they can do so for the rest of the series, we will all be a bunch of happy little campers.
I consider Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday to be the worst sequel of the whole entire series, it shouldn’t of even been made and most of all, I
don’t even claim this to be a Friday the 13th movie at all. But some of the kill scenes are probably the only thing going for it, so I highly suggest
you save your cash and just rent this movie out and then decide on buying it or not. Though if you're a die-hard Friday fan and want this movie no
matter what goes on in it, then go ahead right now and purchase the DVD.
killed off by child superstar Corey Feldman with a machete. Then in part 6 Jason is resurrected back to life and finds his way back home to Camp
Crystal Lake to quench his bloodthirsty rampage by massacring more innocent teenagers. Once again we are hit with another Final Friday would
you believe it! but this time Jason Voorhees soul (that’s right people, I said it, his soul) can transfer host to host, making it harder for those to
know who actually is the real Jason Voorhees.
Now I usually write a little synopsis explaining what the movie is about right about now, but honestly I am not even going to give this movie any
satisfaction whatsoever. Because lets be straight down the line, the damn movie doesn’t even deserve it. Why the hell the screenwriters were
even allowed to portray our monstrous hockey mask slasher in this manner is beyond me. And top it off, I am guessing that director Adam Marcus
had just finished watching Wes Cravens Shocker (1989) and probably thought to himself “Hey, why don't I completely fuck over the Friday the
13th franchise by creating the most ridiculous sequel ever”. Well Marcus here is your award and you have officially proven yourself to be the most
un-liked director ever. If only New Line Cinema officially went with Tobe Hooper who was originally considered to direct this particular sequel, then
just maybe, Hooper could of turned the whole series around for the good. I totally now understand why this series slowly died off after the 4th
sequel, it was to do with poorly picked directors, bad screenwriters, piss poor actors or New Line Cinema wanting to quickly cash in.
With the whole body to body soul jumping thing, this movie is slightly enjoyable when it comes to some of the death scenes. In the Unrated
version you’ll see several brutal kill scenes where a woman having sex with her partner in a tent, has a pole jammed through her back and out of
her stomach, only to be torn in half upwards. A nice heart eating moment, some poor bastard getting their throat slit open and a scene where
some guy gets his arm broken causing the bone to break through the skin. There is plenty more vile death scenes with I wont spoil for you, but if
you enjoy watching the Friday the 13th movies for the gory death scenes, then there is some hope for this movie to be enjoyable to sit through.
A few things some of you might now about is that in the original script written by Jay Huguely, Jason was suppose to of had a evil twin named Elias
who was the killer with included a back-story about Pamela Voorhees's involvement in the occult. They scrapped that idea and left the focus on
directed the storyline towards Jason. Not to mention you also get a quick body count update by a news reporter doing a segment on American
Case File, total number of kills is 83. But according to the Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Wikipedia page, this is an inaccurate body count as
the cruise ship in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the 10 teenagers he
killed where never to be found. So it knocks the total body count down to 76.
Once again we have the mighty Kane Hodder who has played Jason Voorhees since the Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) also
playing a security guard that gets killed off by the possessed coroner. Now get this, even Kane calls Jason "a big old pussy” in this movie.
In the DVD Extras you are presented with a Uncut and the rated R version. The Unrated version happens to run for a solid 3 minutes longer than
the VHS rated R version. So all those wonderful gore scenes you Friday the 13th gorehounds are hungry to see, well finally we can see the movie
in its true form. Now if only they can do so for the rest of the series, we will all be a bunch of happy little campers.
I consider Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday to be the worst sequel of the whole entire series, it shouldn’t of even been made and most of all, I
don’t even claim this to be a Friday the 13th movie at all. But some of the kill scenes are probably the only thing going for it, so I highly suggest
you save your cash and just rent this movie out and then decide on buying it or not. Though if you're a die-hard Friday fan and want this movie no
matter what goes on in it, then go ahead right now and purchase the DVD.
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