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Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday

Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Okay movie with serious lack of skill.
Review: The plot to this movie is just ridiculous. What were they thinking? Any TRUE Friday the 13th fan (myself included) knows that the series offically ended with Jason Takes Manhatten. And this movie here is not a Friday the 13th film. It's a JASON movie. And not a terriblely good one either.

First off, the make-up for old Jay isn't so cool. It looks fake. The hokey is too small and seems to have been melted onto his face. Plus he doesn't have much screen time (always a mistake in JASON movie). The dialogue and acting (some cast members are compentent enough I should stress) is unbelievable. It's so basic!

And this JASON movie seems to rip-off plot elements from Evil Dead (the presence of the Necronomicon and the Dagger) and The Hidden. Did Pamela Voorhees use the Necronomicon to bring back old Jay? Does this explain the whole 'Hell Baby' thing going on? It might, but it' never really made clear to us.

The showdown at the end is a bit of an anti-climax. There's no real energy or excitement to it. And Jason's decent into hell is just big non-event. A couple of oversized Cookie Monster hands come up from the ground and drag him thru the suspiciously loose gravel. Zuh?

But New Line makes up for this by providing us with an unrated DVD that restores the gore. This is something Paramount never did. Now the movie seems very over-the-top and some of it is really gross. This was the whole idea for parts 1-8. People cringe and freak at the blood and guts. When you cut them out you castrate the movie and it becomes exceedingly dull. So far this DVD is the only glimpse of what the first 8 could have been like.

Plus the 1.85:1 anamorphic picture is looking fine. And the DTS 5.1 soundtrack is loud, loud, loud. This is very good when considering the ambient effects and constant surround use. But Harry Manfredini's score is not...good. His music in Friday the 13th Part 1-7 (Fred Mollin for part 8) was dead cool and used screetching strings and orchestra. Now if JGTH he uses a badly out of tune synthesizer. And it's simply awful.

Buy this DVD. It makes for a great double-bill with Jason X. And New Line's quality and commitment to making it the best possible DVD presentation is something Paramount would never do.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: THis is not the best, but weirdest of the entries
Review: This could also be considered a black sheep of the series primaily becasue of how small of a role Jason really plays (physically). To some weird extent in this one his heart is a parasite that can jump from body to body when the origional carcass is destroyed (in this case blown to hell). He then continues to kill but in variose bodies. It is up to his neice to slay him (because his sister dies) but with the problem that if Jason goes inside her aka through the vagina, he will be reborn and continue to kill. Actually one way or another he would kill but it would not require him to leap from corpse to corpse. There is a bounty hunter after him as well and in the end he is defeated in a special effects style kill (a bunch of hands from the earth grab him and drag him down) and it sets up for Freddy vs Jason set to be released sometime in 2003/2004 time range. Overall this movie is decent but not the best of the series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is one of the best!!!
Review: Jason goes to hell is one of the best in the series. He can posses people. The DVD has both rated and unrated versions.
The cover looks cool. It also has other cool features. I also likes jason X. This movie is a definate classic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is the Worst one yet
Review: Please don't buy this..It is terrible. It's not even jason, his spirit takes over peoples bodies and there is nothing LESS scary that a 50 yeaR OLD HOUSE WIFE WITH DARK BAGS UNDER HER EYES KILLING SOMEONE AND THE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/STUDIO THINKING THAT IT IS SCARY.. I Know that for the most part these movies aren't the best BUT at least every other one actually has Jason in it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: JASON GETS GROUNDED IN THIS VERY GORY SEQUEL
Review: Well, Well, this is the ninth entry in the Friday the 13th film series and the first film from New Line Cinema, who bought the rights to the film franchise in 1991 after Paramount wanted nothing to do with the film series after the embarrassing Jason Takes Manhattan.

This film was made in 1992 and released to the general public on Friday, August 13, 1993. This film was not well advertised at all. I only saw one big poster at a bus shelter and that was it.

I go to see JASON GOES TO HELL and I hated the film at first and made very much fun of it. With JASON X having "Alien Resurrection" written all over it, JASON GOES TO HELL has "The Hidden" written all over it, another film by New Line Cinema. When it comes to a Friday the 13th film, logic just goes out the door. A great thing about this film is that it totally disregards the embarrassing Jason Takes Manhattan (Part 8).

I started to like the film after not seeing it for months, when released as a "Original Directors' Uncut Edition" in 1994 on VHS. With the help of a friend, I am the proud owner of JASON GOES TO HELL on DVD.

Many people were complaining about the film being too dark in the DVD transfer. I saw the film on DVD and some scenes were dark but in my opinion, it didn't detract from watching the film, I thought it added to it in the sense that I was expecting to see dark scenes in the film...The sound was perfect. Watching the film on Widescreen was great as well, for the first time in standard widescreen (1.85:1) format.

Also, the DVD cover is great, the Animated Menu Board was great and better than JASON X and better than the Paramount DVD's. ALso, there is the Theatre Trailer, a Jump to a Death Sequence(s), Deleted Footage from the TV version and Commentary by the writer and director of the film. I listened to the commentary by Dean Lorey (writer) and Adam Marcus (director) and these guys are nuts - but too hilarious. This commentary is one of the better ones I have ever heard on film. Certainly beats the commentary on JASON X, which is way too boring.

JASON GOES TO HELL is in my opinion, the goriest film in the film series. There are Unrated and R-Rated Versions available on the DVD and I wonder which version people will watch ?? There is still missing footage of David's death in Vicky's house as his skull was crushed with teeth knocked out in the bathroom sink - I wonder if New LIne still has that footage in their vaults ??

In closing, JASON GOES TO HELL despite its little detractions in story is one of the better film in the series and this DVD was well worth the wait. A must have for fans of the series.

Get Your Copy Today.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jason Vorhees returns with a new and dealdy power
Review: JGTH was one of the best Fridays because of both the story and the fact that Jason does some thing new. After jason is blown to bits which was cool, his remain are being examined by a corinor when the heart of jason hipnotizes him to EAT IT and possesses him becoming Jason but unfortunately not in appearance. Ee then goes out trying to find blood realitives who we never knew existed in order for him to be reborn. this was a great movie and I plan to get it on DVD and my favorite part is at the end there you see Jason's Hockey mask on the ground and were thinking its finally over WHEN FREDDY KRUGGER'S KNIFE GLOVED HAND POPS OUT OF THE GROUND AND PULLS IT DOWN INTO HELL which tells me that theres going to be Freddy Vs. Jason in 2003.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The title is quite accurate
Review: [...]I know the idea was to take Jason in a new direction and break away from the formula. I figure after eight films of the same formula, why even bother? This movie proves that the films should stick with the simple, cheesy, juvenile formula it's always had. They were very fun that way. The viewer is expected to swallow alot of [garbage]here. First off, that the whole time, Jason was really-down deep-some grotesque Lovecraftian spermy creature. Give me a break. When a horror series goes on for some time, they always try to throw some new "twist" into the story and it always ends up being terrible. Like the little evil floating teardrop shaped spirits in "Freddy's Dead" that possess him. Or the bogus theory in Halloween 6 that Michael is part of some druid cult that murders family when the stars are in line. The whole "body jumping" thing doesn't fit this film. It's been done before and kinda takes the Jason presence out of the movie. What else? Oh, Jason has a long lost sister! You gotta be kidding! Didn't Jason's mother in the first FT13 say that Jason was her only child?? And the only way to kill Jason now is to stab him with some magical dagger(?) the black dude from 21 Jump Street happens to have hanging around. Let me say that again: Jason must be stabbed with a magical dagger in order to kill him once and for all. I think that pretty much sums up the rotten direction this franchise was taken in. It's pretty horrible, even by the very low standards of the series

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: JASON GOES TO HELL - The Final Friday
Review: finally on DVD director Adam Marcus's uncut version is out it's in dts 5.1 bloody sound it is the all time greatest no the absolute best horror film in the FRIDAY THE 13TH series buy it now

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but could be better
Review: As far as Friday the 13th movies go, this one is not too bad. It has plenty of gore and excitement, and does a pretty good job of scaring you. As far as the DVD goes, it could be a lot better. The rated and unrated versions are nice, as is the theatrical trailer (Personally I thought the trailer was done extremely well, short, quick, and some awesome music), the problem is with the deleted scenes. If you watch the trailer you see an image of a large creature snarling, this the scene where the creature version of Jason grows to a considerable size and attacks the main characters. Though it was cut from the movie. As were the original monsters that bring Jason to hell. They looked like demons made of roots - as opposed to the large floppy hands we see in the movie - they looked really sweet, but I guess the director just didn't like them. And a particularly gruesome death scene (a faucet is involved...don't ask) was removed as well. I was really hoping to see these scenes in the DVD, but I guess we never will. Other than that, it's a pretty cool flick.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: About time we got something new.....
Review: I'll admit, I've never really been big on the Friday the 13th series yet I have seen them all and I have enjoyed them all. So, when it come to watching this one, I figured we'd be getting the same old, same old. Boy, was I wrong. They basically take the soul outta Jason and base the whole movie on that alone. You only get to see Jason twice in the movie(which disgruntled alot of fans). Yet, somehow, that idea worked and it actually was an awesome movie. I have to admire the people who made this film, they had the big kahunas to try something new. I wish more directors of these horror icons could do that. Giving a new take on them would be cool. Anyhoo, i give it five stars, a thumbs up and a "COOL!" to boot.


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