Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

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Summary: I can hardly believe I'm giving a Jason movie 3 stars...
Review: Friday The 13th VII begins with a handy intro recapping the previous 6 installments, so you don't have to waste your life watching them. Jason, now a zombie, is freed by a young woman with telekinetic powers. She has returned to Camp Crystal Lake (with her mother and a creep of a psychologist) after accidentally killing her father years ago (by sending him to the bottom of the infamous lake). When she returns, she acidentally frees Jason (who was chained to the bottom of the lake in VI) who of course goes on yet another killing spree. Fortunately for Jason, there also happens to be a houseful of sex-crazed teens nearby, for him to whack. This is where it becomes morbidly amusing, as Jason kills each person with a different yard tool.
The young woman finally realises there is a killer loose and attacks Jason with her mind powers. Jason is apparently electocuted and the threat is over (not!). The woman and her new boyfriend now must do battle with Jason in the confines of a small house (some actual suspense!). Jason's face is revealed again (he's now a cool monster in the ranks of Frankenstein and the like!) and he is virtually unstoppable. The young woman's father rises again, and pulls Jason below into the lake, in a rather weak climax.
Kane Hodder begins here his 4 entry run as the infamous killer. Hodder's Jason is a muscular brute who finds sinister delight in finishing off his victems (escpecially in VIII).
Jason doing battle with another powerful foe reminded me a little of the Godzilla series. At the time of the film, a Freddy Vs Jason film was being tossed about, but fell through. Therefore, Jason fought a Carrie clone.
Though not extremely enjoyable, I thought my time was not nearly as wasted with this film as it was with the previous episodes (of course, maybe this one seemed good due to the previous films' poor quality).

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Summary: Carrie VS Jason
Review: After the greatest instalment of the F13th series of Jason Lives (6) comes the next instalment that hit the iceberg.

Obviously struggling for ideas they settled on a girl with telekineses powers to be the heroine to take on Jason. As a child her father was killed in lake, and she blames herself, it has traumatised her and her shrink has decided all these years later to take her back to the lake and confront her demons. But he's not interested in that, he has his own agenda. But everything comes to a halt when Jason comes back from his watery grave. But wonder woman has her magical powers to defend herself with... the movie is not too bad. I have watched it a few times. But I don't consider it to be great, or the best they could have made it. It is filled with some cool action and death scenes. But it doesn't hold a torch to the previous 6 films. However it is ten times better then it's successor.

No bonus features on this version. Check out the box set "Crystal Lake To Manhattan" for extra bonus features.


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Summary: Friday the 13th Part 7; The New Blood
Review: On Friday The 13th, Jason will meet his match.

Great movie. Bad dvd. The dvd has no real features.


This film is presented in a widescreen format.

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Summary: Friday The 13th Part 7: The New Blood (1988)
Review: In 1986's, Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives, Tommy Jarvis had finished off Jason, by drowning him at the bottom of the lake at Camp Crystal Lake, the only way to defeat Jason once and for all. Tommy had claimed that it was finally over. But Tommy was wrong.

In 1988, after getting more cravings from the fans, director John Carl Buechler had given us fans, Friday The 13th Part 7: The New Blood.

Friday The 13th Part 7: The New Blood starts off with the Shepard family. John Shepard (played by John Otrin) is drunk again, where he and his wife, Amanda Shepard (played by Susan Blu) are arguing, leading John into smacking Amanda straight across the face, where their 10-year-old daughter, Tina, after witnessing John's actions, runs off into a rowboat and drifts into the lake. John tries to run after her, but he is too late. He tries to call her back, as he apologizes, but Tina is nowhere even near feeling up to forgiving her father. Tina screams out, "You hit mom again. I hate you. I wish you were dead". Suddenly, just by looking at the pier in which John stands on, Tina, with her telekinetic powers, accidentally break the pier, which crashes into the lake, causing the death of John Shepard. Tina screams out, "DADDY!" She had never meant to say that she wished her father dead. That is something every child says to their parents when they are frustrated.

Tina (played by Lar Park Lincoln), now at the age of 17, wakes up in her mother's car. They are headed back to their cabin at Camp Crystal Lake. Tina has been in and out of mental hospitals for her guilt over her father's death, as well as her telekinetic powers. Dr. Crews (played by Terry Kiser, in his pre-Weekend At Bernie's days) has decided to spend the weekend with Amanda and Tina, in order to help Tina. But what the ladies do not know is that Dr. Crews is not out to help Tina, but out to exploit her. Next-door are ten teenagers. The ten teenagers are Nick (played by Kevin Blair), Sondra (played by Heidi Kozak), Russell (played by Larry Cox), Kate (played by Diane Almeida), Ben (played by Craig Thomas), Eddie (played by Jeff Bennett), David (played by Jon Renfield), Maddy (played by Diana Barrows), Robin (played by Elizabeth Kaitan), & Melissa (played by Susan Jennifer Sullivan). They have moved in next-door to throw a surprise birthday for Nick's cousin, Michael.

Dr. Crews has Tina getting started on her telekinetic powers, by having telekinetically move a matchbook. She tries, but can't, for her powers work only when her emotions are at their highest peak. Dr. Crews screams at her, causing her to move the matchbook across the table. She gets up and walks away. She walks down to the lake and tries to bring back her father, but accidentally brings back Jason (played by Kane Hodder).

That night, Michael (played by William Butler) and his girlfriend, Jane (played by Staci Greason) are on their way to the cabin, but their car breaks down. As they begin to walk, Jason kills them.

Nick arrives at Tina's and invites her to the party. She meets everyone there, including the b*tch, Melissa. Tina then has a vision of Jason killing Michael. She runs out in hysterics.

The next morning, Nick and Tina are having a pleasant conversation. Tina finds herself falling for Nick, as Nick is for Tina. They share a brief kiss, after Tina explains to Nick about her father's death and how it sort of messed up her head.

That night, while trying to throw Michael another party, hoping he will show up, Jason stumbles upon the kids and kills each and every one of them, leaving only Tina, Nick, and Melissa. Tina has run off after Amanda Shepard had found out about Dr. Crews' plans to commit her. Amanda and Dr. Crews set out to find Tina, but they find Jason instead, who kills them instantly.

Tina runs back to her house, where Nick and Melissa wait for her. Melissa, turns out to be even more of a b*tch then we thought, for she shows know care for what is going on until Jason axes her in the face. With her telekinetic powers, Tina breaks Jason's hockey mask. Instead of seeing the usual mongoloid face that we have seen since the first film, we now see an almost skeletal-like zombie creature, since Jason has been killed so many times. After a brief battle, Tina sets the place on fire, which is due for an explosion. She and Nick make a run for it. The house explodes, but Tina and Nick are safe. Well, not exactly. Jason made it out of the explosion. He tries to knock off Tina, but with her telekinetic powers, she brings her father's ghost up from the lake. He grabs Jason and pulls him back down into the lake, leaving Tina and Nick in safety.

This film gets all praise from me. It seems like the director wanted a Friday film where can bring Jason Voorhees face-to-face with a young Carrie. Another amazing sequel that you should watch before you set out on your long-anticipated camping trip.

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Summary: THE BETTER ONE IN THE SERIES
Review: Part 7 used to be my favourite in the series, then for awhile when I was little I didn't like it as much and thought that Part 8 was my favourite. But now that I'm older and since buying the boxset of one-eight, now I really do think Part 7 is one of the best in the series. The series as a whole was never completely fantastic, but what is good about Part 7 is that directer John Carl Buechler gave the character Tina more of a backstory and there was a lot more to the main character and was infinitely more interesting.

Not to mention as well the entrance of Kane Hodder who to IS JASON. He made the character what he is.

So I definitely recommend this entry into the series.

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Summary: A cool twist!!!!!
Review: THE STORY: Tina, a girl who has special powers, mistakenly kills her dad. She goes through many treatments. One day, she brings back Jason from his watery grave in Part 6 by mistake using her uncontrollable psychic powers. Now she must stop him!

MY THOUGHTS: Although it lacked gore, this is one of the better Jason flicks. Jason's makeup looked OUTSTANDING, you can even see his backbone. He also gets unmasked in this one. He also takes quite a psychic beating, too. FUN!

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Summary: Friday the 13th Part 7:The New Blood
Review: Interestingly enough, I heard this film was originally supposed to be the first of the proposed crossovers between Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Krueger, but due to some problems I guess the filmakers instead opted for a clone of Carrie White.

Anyway, in the latest of the series which has been a real guilty pleasure for me, a girl with psychic powers, who killed her father by accident when she was a child, winds up unearthing Mr. V, now played by Kane Hodder, who's been taking a nap or something while spending all that time under the lake. The years being under the water for real this time around cause him to now look like a completely decomposed zombie. His clothes are all ripped up, his bones are showing through his skin, and his mask is missing a bottom chunk, revealing a bit of his now zombie-fied mouth, something I actually thought was a pretty nice effect. Speaking of Jason being a zombie, I just have to say watch out, because when the film goes to show him without his mask, I just have to say he is one UGLY ! Well, goes without saying, pretty much everything else is just standard fare, acting, eh, story, eh, etc etc. No better or worse than the rest of the Paramount series. Also, animation fans, watch for an appearance by Jeff Bennett(the guy who does the voice of Johnny Bravo, Brooklyn from Gargoyles, and Dexter's dad from Dexter's Laboratory) as a sci-fi geek.

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Summary: jason vs a telekinetic chick
Review: yep thats right!hes up against a telekinetic teenager.sounds like a stephen king movie or maybe freddy.a little x-men like also.no worries.from here in the series,theres manhattan,hell,space and vs freddy.this one is one of the better ones.id rank it over all of these except freddy vs jason.the chick is sexy in a way.its like that a lot in horror films.the chicks are always freaked out,covered in blood or dying so theres really little time to check them out.of course shes very upset at her authority figures who dont belive her about her talent.theyre annoying!this is one of the best jason movies!

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Summary: Another Winner In The Series
Review: With Jason Voorhees how having evolved into a nearly unstoppable monster, "The New Blood" introduces a new adversary for the masked one in the form of a mentally-shaky telepathic teenage girl. Not as full-throtle horror as "Jason Lives" but sexier, inventive, and perhaps the most visually spectacular chapter to this point, "F13 VII" succeeds in every sense of the word. Also features one of the greatest climaxes in Friday history, in a series where even the weaker chapters almost invariably pick up markedly toward the end (except for 1 particular chapter, which I've already chastised too much in previous reviews, to the point where I'm starting to feel uncomfortably Scrooge-like). Fantastic special effects, worthy of Oscar condsideration, although I think the Academy usually doesn't consider movies like to this due to political correctness, especially in the 80s, when the politicians's yammering was at its shrillest. That shouldn't detract from the excellent work that went into making "The New Blood" one of the technically-soundest Fridays, and one of the best chapters overall in a great series.

As an interesting sidenote: the year this came out, four other legendary and long-running horror lines also put out outstanding entries: "Hellbound" (the secon "Hellraiser"), the first "Child's Play", "Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers", and the fourth "Nightmare On Elm Street" movie ("The Dream Master"). All among the top ten horror movies of 1988 (one of horror's greatest years), and all extremely recommended, as is The New Blood.