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Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It's better the first time.
Review: "The Final Chapter" my..umm...eye. Friday 4 is more of the same, except that this one has Corey Feldman in it. Whopdie doo, right. Well, actually he isn't too bad in this one. It also has some of the best gore since the series began. Jason seems to be really upset in this one, there is no mercy in his butchery this time. We also get to see his face (have you noticed it looked defferent in every movie?). This was my favorite for a long time, and then I saw Part 2. It is still one of the better ones, and I can recomend it...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Final Chapter...before the next chapter
Review: Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter...NOT! Intricate plot filled all the twists and red herrings of a good Agatha Christie? NOT! Richly developed characters interacting against the back-drop of a romantic historical period? NOT! Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back? NOT! Boy gets girl, boy gets splattered against a wall, girls gets impaled and brutally hacked? YES!!! This isn't "The Hours" or "The English Patient". This is Jason Vorhees!

Jason not know love.
Jason not know pity.
Jason stalk and kill
til' Jason bloody and gritty.

Jason movies are what they are: Slasher movies. And Jason is the best. He is the predator hidden just beyond the herd. Those who are so wrapped up in their shallow little lives that they ignore the danger that is lurking at the boundaries soon find themselves as prey.

When I saw this movie in the theater, people didn't cheer for Jason, they feared him. (Okay, there was a little cheer when the loud-mouth guy in the hospital gets his own unique killing.) No, the crowd I was with cheered little Corey Feldman. Watch the movie and you'll know why. I'm not going to spoil it.

This film doesn't have quite the excitement level of Part 3 but does give us an important piece of the Jason saga.

The 3 stars are for Paramount's contemptable attitude toward a series that earned it profits. The DVD comes with the movie (widescreen enhanced) and a theatrical trailer. That's it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The first "Final" chapter
Review: In what is always a massive lie but a beautiful way to pack them into the box-office, the producers of the fourth "Friday The 13th" film promised that this would be the last entry in the series. There have since been six more chapters, not including a showdown with fellow horror icon, Freddy Krueger. Though we all know it's baloney, us, horror fans always seem to swallow the "killer's swan song" pic. Why? Because we all know the killer is going to meet an elaborate and cool death but not before he takes out a record number of victims. We also always assume that the "last" film will be the coolest and most exciting one there is.

After finding his look and taking out campers in 3-D in "Part 3", there really isn't much new left for Jason to do. "Final Chapter" takes place after the events of the last film. Jason is believed to be dead after an axe to the head (if only it were that easy?) and is on his way to the morgue. He escapes from the morgue in typical Jason fashion and is on his way back to Camp Crystal Lake where a new group of oversexed teens is on vacation. We've got skinny dipping, drug abusing, and even nympho twins, all in the woods where an escaped lunatic is walking around. If that's not the formula for trouble then I don't know what is.

This script is about as "by the numbers" as it gets but the movie is not without its treats. We've got some excellent make-up effects by splatter master, Tom Savini, as well as a young Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover doing their thing. As a sequel, this one is pretty much a rehash of the previous three movies and any horror fan will be able to predict nearly everything that happens but any horror fan should check it out if only for Savini's awesome effects.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best in the series
Review: This was a great friday the 13th movie and one of the most popular. By now everyone hates the teens that descide to go to the camp yet again so everyone is rooting for jason and are happy to see them die. This is one of the scariest and goriest in the sreies and has a great ending were jason is killed forever. If only that were true but the descided to keep making more movies and they just kept getting worse and worse. If the series had ended here I could have called it a graet horror series but since they descided to keep going I have to say all together the series is pretty bad. But anyway see this movie its really scary and a great horror movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The goriest F13 movie made!
Review: Good story, great GORE, you Friday fans must see this!

Story: Jason escapes from the morge and heads to Crystal lake to slaughter more teens!

A must see! Rent it before you buy it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: More Gore!
Review: This is the goriest F13 movie yet! Very fun!
Story: Starts off where pt 3 left off. Jason escapes from the morge and comes to Crystal Lake! Teens are there who eventually get slaughtered!
Gore: Axe to chest, meat cleaver to face, knife through throat, knife to head, hack saw to neck, death by scapel, and more!
The goriest f13 movie out of the series!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Final Chapter?.......Not in the least.
Review: I find it funny that instead of calling this movie Part 4 it was named the final chapter. Not only did more sequels follow but this movie is actually a trilogy tied in with part 5 & 6 as a previous reviewr mentioned. Why is that? Simply becuase of the character Tommy Jarvis. Anyway, on with the review. Part 4, as I like to call it, gives somewhat more of a storyline. Here we have the Jarvis family...mainly 12 year old Tommy Jarvis who live right next to Camp Crystal Lake. Corey Feldman does a good job playing Tommy and is the most likable character in the whole movie. Part 4 is mainly a slasher flick up until Jason goes for the Jarvis family and things get personal. As I said earlier, Part 4 does tie in with part 5 & 6 but unfortunately part 5 was a real stinker. I strongly suggest skipping Part 5 and moving on to Part 6. You WILL NOT miss out by avoiding Part 5.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Friday the 13th Ever
Review: F-4 was scarier that part 1, 2,& 3,. Although this should of been the last Friday the 13th. After the final chapter. The story line gotten confusing. Highly recommended.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: HERE WE GO AGAIN
Review: IN THIS ONE, JASON AWAKES IN THE COUNTY MORGUE, AND HE CONTINUES HIS VIOLENT KILLING SPREE AT CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE. THIS SEQUEL SHOULD'VE BEEN THE LAST ONE, BUT, KNOWING THIS WAS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT DIDN'T END HERE. OF INTEREST ONLY FOR A YOUNG COREY FELDMAN, OTHERWISE, IT'S JUST YOUR AVERAGE HORROR SEQUEL.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Idiots Guide To The Innanities And Inconsistencies Of F-4
Review: Final Chapter is an atmospheric entry in the series, benefitting from the early work of a pre-stardom Crispin Glover and a pre-rehab Corey Feldman .The film begins where part 3 left off; the police clean up the remains of Higgins Haven (the ranch setting of the 3rd film), and Jason's body is taken to the morgue. He wakes up, polishes off a couple of morgue attendants, makes his way back to Crystal Lake, kills a half dozen or so vacationers, and gets his belated comeuppance at the hands of a 12 year old with an affinity for make-up fx. Now that we're done with the plot summary, we can ask some rudementary questions about the film.
Note: the following is an observation of the innanities of the film, and is best enjoyed while actually viewing the picture. Copy this review, and reference it while watching Final Chapter.
- Why do people continue to visit Crystal Lake when they know there is a killer loose? Though this film has an excuse (he's presumed dead at the beginning of the film),it still doesn't explain why the vacationers who rented the lakeside cabin didn't cancel there trip when news of the first murders hit the television (parts 2,3, and 4 take place on the same weekend).
-Why doesn't anyone see Jason leave the hospital? If you worked the night shift at the county morgue, could you overlook a six-foot-five behemoth wearing a hockey mask walking out of the cold room? And why doesn't security come running when the nurse screams bloody murder as Jason eviscerates her?
- Why doesn't the raft deflate when Jason impales the girl through it? And Where does jason get the speargun he uses in the next scene? Was it left over from part 3 (the infamous 3-D eye murder)? Did Jason actually go back to Higgin's Haven to get it?
- Jason kills one victim as she is about to mount her bicycle. Later in the film someone looks out the window and notices that the bike is upright. Did Jason replace the kickstand?
- Once Jason gets into the house, the order of the murders makes no sense. First he kills a guy in the kitchen, and why the guy doesn't scream as Jason cleavers him is a matter of debate(Answer: because his friend in the living room would hear him, and the director is saving that murder for later); then he miraculously appears outside the upstairs window; then he appears in the living room; then upstairs in the shower; then outside the front door.
- How could Rob not bump into Jason at his tent, when only moments before Jason was there destroying his weapons?
- Why does Rob run back into the basement after Trish tells him the killer is in the house? And if Jason was in the basement the whole time, why did he wait for Trish to come downstairs before attacking Rob? And why on earth would Trish run back into the basement knowing that Jason was there (Answer: so the director could use a cool "hand coming throught the staircase" shot)?
- Why can't she run past the dead body lying at the front door when trying to escape the killer?
- Why, after returning home, does she nail the door shut to prevent the killer from entering the house, when there are big bay windows even a five-year-old could break through?
...it's a Friday The 13th film ...! It's not supposed to make sense. So pop the dvd into the tray, turn down the lights, and savor a relic of a filmmaking era that has long past. This was the height of the 80's slasher craze. If you can't be nostalgic for a Friday film, don't even think about watching one. At this point, nostalgia is all they have to offer, and who ever said there was anything wrong with that?!!!


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