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Summary: my slasher fav!
Review: It's about when the murderor,Jason,is found dead in a barn with10 or so bodies around.but if you've seen any of the other movies,you know that Jason never dies!he comes to life and kills more teens in the woods,until he is dropped by a 12year-old boy! END
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Summary: Splitting hairs
Review: Somebody explain this movie to me.I get it -- it's not really the final chapter. I have no problem with that. Stop pointing it out. No, I'm talking the climactic scene, where Tommy Jarvis (the *cough* incomparable Corey Feldman) shaves his head. For some reason, this gives JASON FREAKIN' VOORHEES the heebie-jeebies, allowing Tommy's forty-three-year-old sister to sideline Jason with a machete. Of course, Jason's hand twitches, sending Tommy into a berserker rage hack-a-thon. Hence the "finality" promised by the title. Jason's dead...or as dead as Jason gets until Part VI. But stop and think about this for a second. Why would Jason care that Tommy shaved his head? Did he get confused into thinking he was looking at a funhouse mirror? Was it supposed to make Jason think there was a "mini-me" version of himself running around? Did it make Jason hearken back to his days as a weird-looking bald kid, and warm the cockles of his heart? Did he just love Tommy's charming bowl-cut, and get dumbfounded that Tommy would squander such a magnificent hairstyle? At the end of Part 2 (they were still using Arabic numerals at that point), Ginny (Amy Steele) put on a crusty sweater that once belonged to Jason's decapitated mother. By tucking her hair behind her neck, Ginny apparently looked enough like Pamela Voorhees to momentarily make Jason think his mother had returned. Hey, nobody's ever nominated Jason for MENSA membership, so it wasn't THAT big of a stretch. At least it made sense. But Tommy's cueball ploy shouldn't have made Jason stop for two seconds, unless it was to double-over laughing. Ultimately, Jason got the upper hand; he's been in eight movies since that day. I'm pretty sure that beats Corey Feldman.
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Summary: Oh no, not... doggy defenestration!
Review: Sigh... if only this truly WAS the final chapter. After goin' through the first three films and seein' pretty much the same stuff each time, you'd think I'd have taken the hint by now and not get my hopes up about seeing anything all that new in the next installment. Just like the last three go-rounds, ya see the killer take out an entire group of horny, pot-abusing teenagers (with a few adults thrown in for good measure). Then there's the wide array of dispatchings, most of which are pretty gruesome but score higher on my gross-out meter than on my fright-o-meter. The only thing I found all that scary-- granted you take the rise and fall of this person's movie career following this-- is a pre-teen Corey Feldman as a sorta geeky messed-up kid who gets even more messed-up by the time the closing credits roll. Er, messed up in a psychological sense that is. Also kinda disquieting is the performance of lovable oddball Crispin Glover, who goes almost totally against type by playing a kinda normal ill-fated teenager. Corey & Crispin add a level of scariness to the 'Final Chapter' (*snicker*) that ol' Jason could never even come close to approaching... On the upside, this booger does feature the silliest Jason-kill I've ever seen when he tosses a pooch through a second-story window of a lakeside house. Now I'm not into animal torture and all that, but after seein' that moment I couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh. Talk about hittin' a whole new low... 'Late
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Summary: Another fantastic flop in the Friday The 13th series
Review: I enjoy watching film series to see how the evolve (or devolve). That curiosity of mine is the only thing that enabled me to watch this miserable entry after the 3rd installment (which was bad, bad, bad!).
Jason kills a bunch of people again for no apparent reason. Some little kid, who's really into monsters, shaves his head (in an effort to resemble Jason). His sister wacks Jason with a machete. End of movie.
This one is mind numbingly d-u-l-l (even compared to #3). The only plus to this one is it at least half-heartedly tries to have a bit of a plot. The producers had taken one too many dips from the well with this one. Creativity would come later in the series, but not here. It was a good idea to finally kill of Jason.
Should I bother mentioning that Crispen Glover (Back To The Future) is in this one?
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Summary: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Review: Three Times Before You Have Felt The Terror, Known The Madness, Lived The Horror. But This Is The One You've Been Screaming For.
This is the one of the best friday the 13th in this series. I think because it is the goriest. And it has alot of nudity then the rest. The dvd has no real features in it.
This film is presented in a widescreen Presentation
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Summary: Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Review: The fans have deeply appreciated the first three installments to the Friday The 13th slot. In 1984, director Joseph Zito had brought horror fans the fourth and supposedly last installment to the Friday The 13th franchise. This fourth and horrifying, but not final, installment is appropriately titled, Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter.
Friday The 13th: The Final Friday starts off where we last saw Jason (played by Ted White): lying in Chris Higgins' barn, supposedly dead. He is then taken off to the hospital morgue and is admitted by Axel (played by Bruce Mahler), the man who puts the corpses in the cold boxes. After signing in Jason, Axel goes into the lobby for a little flirting with Morgan (played by Lisa Freeman), one of the hospital's sexy young nurses. Morgan is either not really interested in Axel, or she is, but is just playing the hard-to-get b*tch. She heads into the cold room to watch the news, when she is startled by Axel. She watches the news, until she and Axel begin making out. As they make out, Jason's supposedly lifeless hand falls out of the blanket and caresses Morgan's leg, scaring the hell out of her and Axel. Morgan screams at Axel and goes on with her job. Axel loads Jason into one of the boxes and closes the door, considering Jason to be sealed deal, but Axel has made the stupid mistake of leaving the door unlocked. As he watches an exercise program, Jason appears behind him with a hacksaw and slices Axel's throat. He enters the medicine closet and kills off Morgan.
The next morning we meet the Jarvis family. There's the lovely Mrs. Jarvis (played by Joan Freeman), the young and beautiful Trish Jarvis (played by Kimberly Beck), and the fun 12-year-old, Tommy Jarvis (played by Corey Feldmen). Tommy is an aficiendo in horror films and horror make-up. The kids learn from their mother that the house next is being rented by six fun teenagers.
The six teenagers are on their way. The six teens are: Doug (played by Peter Barton), Paul (played by Alan Hayes), Samantha `Sam' (played by Judie Aronson), Sara (played by Barbara Howard), Ted (played by Lawrence Monoson), and Jim (played by Crispin Glover, in his pre-Back-To-The-Future days). They stop to look at the map for directions and they drive on, as they pass by a cemetery, where the first grave is...Mrs. Voorhees. Late that night, the teens arrive.
The next morning, the teens are walking over to the lake, where they meet Tina (played by Camilla Moore) and her twin sister, Terri (played by Carrie Moore). They twins decide to join the teens and have a little fun. Tommy and Trish have just pulled in and decided not to stay. As Tommy and Trish head on home, their car breaks down. As Tommy tries to fix it, a young man named Rob Dier (played by E. Erich Anderson), the brother of Sandra Dier (who was killed by Jason in the second film, through double impaltion while having sex with Jeff). He fixes their car and accepts Trish's offer for a lift. He stays with the Jarvis' for a few hours and sets out into the woods to set up camp, where he is supposedly hunting bear, when he is really hunting Jason.
That night, the teens next door are having a party. Tina seems to be a little too flirtatious with Paul, this making Sam jealous, since Paul and Sam are dating. Sam goes out for a skinny dip, at a nearby lake. Instead of having a relaxing swim, Jason kills her off. As the night goes on, Jason gets around to killing Paul, who has decided to catch up with Sam, Terri, Jim, Tina, Ted, Doug, Sara (after the two showered together), and Mrs. Jarvis. Tommy and Trish return home from wherever they had gone out to and find that their mother is gone. While Trish tries to find Rob, Tommy stays behind to fix the lights. Trish finds Rob, where he tells Trish the real reason to why he's here. They run back to make sure that Tommy is safe, in which he is. Tommy stays behind, while Rob and Trish head over next door to check on the teens. Trish finds them all dead and runs down to the basement to tell Rob, only she witnesses Rob getting killed by Jason.
Trish runs back home and takes Tommy to safety. As Trish battles Jason downstairs in her living room, Tommy comes up with a plan to distract Jason, leading into killing Jason once and for all. Tommy runs downstairs in tight shorts and a shaved head, reminding Jason of he once looked like as a child. At that moment, Trish swipes off Jason's hockey mask, to reveal that hideous face for the third time. Tommy comes over to Jason and hacks him up with his own machete.
If you thought that the first three films were horrifying, you better think again. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter is the most horrifying film in the entire franchise and it will, indeed, do more than chill you to the bone. Now, put that damn camping gear down, and watch Jason wreck havoc on Camp Crystal Lake as Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter comes your way. This may say that it is the final chapter, but it is not the last.
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Summary: The "Classic"
Review: this is the worst FT13TH movie yet. weaker characters, and wak plot. Oh well. GET THE MUCH BETTER FIRST ONE.
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Summary: Jason's unlucky day has arrived!!
Review: It's just a short while after the third set of murders, and Jason Voorhees is supposedly dead, in the hospital. However, he kills the workers on duty there and escapes back to Camp Blood once more to see if he can once and for all mark his territory.
He starts with the "lonely, undressed girl", follows with a spear to a man's no-touch area, and then moves to the teens' house to finish it all up. However, there is the next door neighbor, Trish, and the smart 12-year old Tommy Jarvis, who plays a big role in the other Jason films. Together, they do what they have to do, and that leads up to the end, where we see two interesting things: Jason unmasked AGAIN and then Tommy's hacking skill, where he splits Jason into quarter-inch pieces, or at least that's what I would have thought, judging from the 20 rapid-succession hits he did.
However, Jason is back in Friday the 13th: Part VI. In the fifth movie, something else goes on, and I think it is a little too disappointing to care about seeing.
Happy hauntings!
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Summary: Solid entry in the Friday The 13th franchise...
Review: After helming the incredibly violent and sadistic slasher film, The Prowler, director Joseph Zito once again teamed with special effects wiz Tom Savini(Dawn Of The Dead, Maniac) to deliver what is without a doubt the most competent and atmospheric entry in the Friday The 13th series.
The film opens with the remains of the presumed dead Jason Voorhees being transported to a nearby hospital. When a little casual sex between morgue employees riles the Crystal Lake maniac back to life much carnage ensues in the stereotypical Friday The 13th tradition. The hockey masked psycho promptly escapes from the morgue and sets his murderous attentions upon a group of charismatic and likeable teens who have rented a home in the isolated wilderness for a bit of rest and relaxation, alcohol overindulgence and pre-marital nookie.
The greatest aspect of this Friday The 13th film is the cast-instead of the usual wooden actors, Zito chose to recruit a fine young cast which includes Corey Feldman(The Lost Boys), Peter Barton(Hell Night), Lawrence Monoson(The Last American Virgin) and Crispin Glover(Back To The Future, Willard). The dialogue is unusually crisp and interesting, in particular the chemistry between Monoson and Glover is very humorous.
Zito, who apparently understood his target audience flawlessly, wisely chose to up the gore and nudity quotient considerably. With the possible exception of Part V, this is the goriest and most violent of the films. The effects by Savini are wonderful, and much superior to the crappy and cheap looking effects of Part III. The briefly unmasked Jason is very horrific and the climax is particularly cringe worthy and realistic.
The film benefits also from a fast and lively pace that prevents the usual tedium found in many slasher films(He Knows You're Alone) from setting in.
My only gripe is the bare bones presentation of the film found on this DVD. Zito and Savini teamed up for a fantastic commentary track for the aforementioned The Prowler DVD from Blue Underground, why a commentary track was not supplied for this above average film is a mystery. Also, truth be told, the video quality is quite grainy in spots and many scenes seem to be much too dark, I do not recall this problem being apparent in my VHS copy.
In closing, despite the DVD's shortcomings and faults, this is one of the better films to emerge from the late seventies and eighties slasher craze. While not as original or pioneering as Black Christmas, Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it is still recommended viewing for horror and slasher fans.
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Summary: Recommended for all slasher film fans.
Review: OK, so this wasn't the 'final' Friday the 13th. But 'The Final Frontier' wasn't the 'final' Star Trek film.
The story so far: Jason has seemingly been killed by the only teenager to survive his previous rampage, and has been taken to the morgue. However, before long he has escaped and makes his way back to the lake where more holidaying teenagers have arrived.
By now the series really is on the right tracks. Jason has genuine on-screen presence, there are plenty of sudden shocks, the characters are more interesting, and the special effects are better than before. A dark and brooding soundtrack helps set the pace for this, one of the series' stronger entries.
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