Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives

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Summary: The Best Friday
Review: yea in my opinion this has the best one friday movie, big improvement over the previous one, and the real Jason is in this one.But this one shows that late sequels could be better in the series

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Summary: Friday the 13th Part 6 Jason Lives
Review: Kill or be Killed!

This movies is great. I like how jason comes back to life. It is a approvemnet over part5. See it it is great fun. The dvd has no real features.

This dvd is presented in a widescreen format.

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Summary: Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)
Review: Fans were disappointed with the results of 1985's Friday The 13th Part 5: A New Beginning. What made them disappointed was the fact that Jason was not the killer in that film, making it the second Friday film to not have Jason appear as the killer. But in 1986, director Tom McLoughlin made up for that when gave us fans, Friday The 13th Part 6: Jason Lives.

This one starts off with Tommy Jarvis (played by Thom Matthews, in his best role yet), now at the age of 20 or 21, driving in a pick-up truck with his best friend, Allen Hawes (played by Ron Palillo, the infamous Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter). The two are driving to Crystal Lake's Eternal Peace Cemetery to finish off Jason once for all. Jason (played by C.J. Graham) has been dead since Tommy killed him at the end of Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter. But Tommy knows that Jason's death isn't all together true, which is why he must finish it off and make sure that he is sent to the fiery gates of Hell.

They dig up his grave and find Jason's rotting corpse lying there, all hollowed out. Before cremating Jason's corpse, Tommy reminisces of the night he brutally killed Jason, and then rams a giant pole into Jason's hollow chest. Tommy then throws Jason's goalie mask into the grave and gets ready to pour gasoline all over Jason, but not until a lightning bolt strikes the metal pole, resurrecting Jason through electricity. Tommy grabs the tank of gas and is ready to pour away, but Jason jumps up and grabs Tommy. Tommy breaks free, as Jason climbs out of the grave, as Tommy throws enough gas on Jason to burn him down to nothing but ashes. As Tommy lights a match, rain begins pouring down, which burns out the match. Hawes tries to beat the ever-loving sh*t out of Jason, but Jason rips out Hawes' heart. Tommy runs off to his truck and drives down to the sheriff's station. There, he meets Sheriff Mike Garris (played by David Kagen). Tommy tries so hard to convince Sheriff Garris that Jason has returned, but Garris, with the help of Deputy Rick (played by Vincent Guastaferro), throws Tommy behind bars, and promises to call the health clinic to pick Tommy up in the morning. That very same night, two head counselors named Darren (played by Tony Goldwin) and Lizabeth (played by Nancy McLoughlin) are on their way to Camp Forest Green, which was originally Camp Crystal Lake, but changed in order to help the town forget about Jason and Mrs. Voorhees' bloody legacy. As they drive on, they stop dead, where Jason is in front of them. Unfortunately, Jason kills them both.

The next morning, Garris' daughter, Megan (played by Jennifer Cooke), and her friends, Paula (played by Kerry Noonan), Sissy (played by Renee Jones), and Cort (played by Tom Fridley) enter the station, where they are requesting that Garris try to find Darren and Lizabeth. There, Tommy begins to warn the kids about Jason. Garris escorts the kids out and decides to see Tommy out of the city.

Camp has begun and the kids have arrived. Cort, Sissy, and Paula are totally unprepared, without the help of Darren and Lizabeth. They do they're best all day, until night falls. Cort has taken the night off with his girlfriend, Nikki (played by Darcy DeMoss). The two are in Nikki's trailer, having sex, but the two are killed off by Jason. Sissy is waiting up in Paula's cabin, while Paula sleeps, but Sissy is killed off. Paula is the only counselor left. A few things happen, like one of the female campers named Nancy, being frightened of bad dreams. Paula kindly takes Nancy back to bed and goes back to her own cabin, where Jason kills her off. Megan helps Tommy out of jail, as her father is out, investigating Cort and Nikki's murder. Megan and Tommy return to the campsite, where her father and two other officers are at the camp, trying to figure out how to stop Jason, but the two officers are killed, followed by Sheriff Garris. Megan takes the boys over to the girls cabin and stays with them out in front of the cabin as Tommy, sitting in a motor boat, battles Jason one last time. Tommy, with one end of a chain rapped around a huge rock, the other end rapped around Jason's neck, pushes Jason into the lake to drown him once again. The plan works, but Tommy is unconscious, from Jason trying to drown him. Megan runs into the lake, and grabs Tommy out of the water, but not before Jason tries for one last victim. Megan uses the motor to kill Jason, by having the propellers break Jason's neck. She swims back to shore with Tommy and rescues Tommy from drowning all together. Tommy vows that it is finally over.

Tommy is certainly mistaken. We all know that Jason will return again, and you know that this is a good enough reason for to sit the hell down, and forget about your camping trip because Jason lives on. So, grab yourself a copy of Friday The 13th: Jason Lives, and watch as Jason claims more victims and scares you half to death.

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Summary: The 2nd Best Of The Worst Friday The 13th Series!
Review: I'm not gonna be too critical!just don't buy it!

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Summary: Jason lives, but he's much livelier in other films
Review: Jason, Jason, Jason...what happened to you?

I've been introduced to the Friday the 13th franchise in reverse, with Jason X and Jason Goes to Hell, then Freddy vs. Jason. Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives has the glimmer of humor and self-referential parody that became a staple in the later films.

The plot, such as it is, goes like this: Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews), the closest thing Jason (C.J. Graham) has to an arch nemesis, is determined to see that Jason's dead. The fact that Jason is already dead and buried doesn't stop Tommy. He wants the body cremated. And Tommy's going to do it all by himself.

That said, there are some problems right from the start. Like Allen Hawes for example. Allen is played by Ron Palillo, THAT Ron Palillo, from Welcome Back Kotter. I didn't think it was possible, but Palillo plays the exact same character-whiny and annoying. Fortunately, we don't have to put up with him for long, because in a fit of rage, Tommy rips out a metal spike from a nearby gate and plunges it into Jason's chest!

Never mind that Tommy is apparently possessed of superhuman strength, or that metal spikes can be easily torn from the metal gates they're welded to. What the hapless duo really has to worry about is a lightning storm that strikes the pole in Jason's chest, not once, but twice. KAZAAM! Jason's lives!

The movie does get props for bringing Jason back to life (death?) in spectacular fashion. But that's pretty much the only novelty to the film. There's also the fact that Jason wears a jumpsuit and actually methodically stores his weapons in little pockets, one for each victim.

Jason immediately makes his way back to the Camp Crystal Lake and begins slaughtering camp counselors. These aren't just camp counselors, they're camp counselors from the 80s in a big way. This movie is the aftermath after an 80s bomb went off: everyone wears ripped shirts, tight jeans, big hoop earrings, frizzed hair, listen to bad 80s rock, and drive Camaros.

The plot shows promise as the local sheriff (Michael Garris, played by David Kagen) assumes that Tommy is trying to bring back the myth of Jason by committing the murders himself. Less believable is Jennifer Cooke as Megan Garris, who flirts, winks, and hair-tosses her way through the film, every inch the bad-girl sheriff's daughter. Megan, we're supposed to believe, thinks Tommy is cute and will do anything to save him, including stealing a deputy's high powered pistol and pointing it at said deputy's forehead.

While Tommy runs around trying to convince everyone Jason is loose, and Megan tries to run around convincing everyone Tommy is innocent, Jason hacks and slashes his way through everybody else. He kills people playing paintball, he kills graveyard drunks and of course, he kills camp counselors. He does not kill any children, although the camp is crawling with them. We can't have that, that'd be going Too Far ™!

For the latter half of the movie, Tommy decides that since the supernatural resurrected Jason, the supernatural will put him down again. This arcane grimoire lists all the ingredients to get rid of a psychotic zombie, which includes a length of chain and a rock. That's right, Tommy needed to get "supplies" (he refers to the supplies over and over) to take care of Jason, only to come up with the world's stupidest plan.

It's refreshing to have someone that Jason actually hates. Tommy lures Jason out to the lake after the cops are progressively chopped up, broken in half, etc. The catch is that Jason doesn't swim (he drowned, remember?). So he walks along the bottom of the water and Tommy loses track of him. Whereupon Tommy decides to pour gasoline around the boat and set it ablaze (because that makes the situation MUCH better). After tying a rock to Jason's head and dropping him into the middle of the lake, a whole 20 feet under, Jason grabs Tommy's throat and proceeds to strangle him.

Up to this point, the movie takes great pains to show just how strong Jason is. He rips Horshack's heart out. He breaks off somebody's arm that tries to shoot at him. He bends a man backwards in half. But for some reason, he just can't strangle our hero Tommy.

Jason's subsequent death is irrelevant because it doesn't make any sense (just how much does it take to really kill a zombie?). And the "he's finally laid to rest" argument holds little water-pun intended-because Jason's floating just a few feet below the surface tied to a rock. Yes, Tommy really has put the scourge that is Jason to rest. Other horror movies should import Tommy: maybe he can throw an unlit match at Freddy and end the series that way too.

I've read a lot of fans talk up Kane Hodder and how he pulls off the Jason presence, an entirely silent act. Well, I actually noticed the difference. Jason seems like some crazy survivalist as opposed to a psychopath with a machete. At time he's methodical, too methodical, when he should be a brutal killer. In essence, Jason just isn't very Jason-like.

Of course, hindsight is 20/20. The more recent Jason films that followed in this movie's footsteps have spoiled me. Many of the movie's conventions, like the self-referencing humor (camp kids openly wonder what they "we're going to be if they grew up", Horshack's body falls into Jason's grave and nobody notices, the drunk gravedigger stumbles around drunkenly), the undead Jason, the innovative weapons use, and the fact that Jason is a supernatural entity that can be defeated by water.

Jason lives, but he's much livelier in other films.

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Summary: One of the best Friday 13ths
Review: Tommy Jarvis is still being plagued by memories of Jason Voorhees, the mass-murderer he killed as a 12-year-old child, and so he and a friend decide to go to Jason's grave, exhume the corpse and destroy it to make certain the killer really is gone forever. However, lightning hits the rotted body, and Jason returns to life as a zombie hell-bent on revenge on Tommy - though he hasn't abandoned his previous habit of killing anybody else he comes across.
From the title sequence (a James Bond parody), to the variety of characters (inevitably there are a few dozy sex-mad teenagers, but they're more in the background than before), this is one of the most entertaining and inventive Friday the 13th films. There are a lot of nice humorous touches, and little in-jokes (a girl called Nancy having nightmares, etc). There is barely a dull moment, and the inclusion of Alice Cooper songs (including 'He's Back: The Man Behind the Mask) is the icing on the cake.

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Summary: Friday the 13th Part 6:Jason Lives
Review: THE STORY: Tommy Jarvis is now an adult, and he is still being troubled by Jason. He thinks, "Maybe if I burn his corpse, my fears will go away." So he and his friend dig up Jason's grave. Tommy sticks a metal pole in the corpse's body, curses at it, and prepares to burn it. Unfortunely, a lightning bolt strikes the corpse, thus reviving Jason! Jason kills Tommy's friend, and continues his rampage. But nobody will belive Tommy when he tells them what happened.

MY THOUGHTS: Nice rebound after part 5! After the absymal Part 5, [that one is so bad I'm not gonna even review it] I thought the series is in the gutter, but nope! This one is great! The REAL Jason is back, Tommy is no longer a pu$$y-whipped momma's boy like he was in the last one, he finds love, and the song at the end of the credits rocks!!! This is a must-see!

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Summary: Great start & cool final credit song but no meat in between
Review: Okay, let's just jump into the deep end of the pool right away with this one. I have always wondered why so many people attacked "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988 when "Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives" was sitting on the shelf of their local video store (or, more accurately, was not sitting there because teenagers were sitting in dark rooms watching it). The Martin Scorsese film based on the provocative novel by Nikos Kazantzakis offended many Christians because of the sequences in which Satan tempts Jesus with a vision of the normal human life he could have if he got down off the cross and walked away from his divine mission. However, at the beginning of "Jason Lives," when Jason is dead, his corpse is dug up by Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews), the boy who killed him in the previous film. Tommy sticks a pole in Jason's rotting corpse and when lightning strikes it, Jason rises from his grave, gets his hockey mask, and sets off for Camp Forrest Green a.k.a. Camp Crystal Lake a.k.a Camp Blood. There is also a urinating dog involved in the resurrection as well, but the fact that a film would suggest that some power other than the divine could bring back somebody from the dead to slaughter brainless teenagers strikes me as being much more offensive than reaffirming that Jesus knew exactly what he was doing by sacrificing his life for humanity.

Anyhow, the opening sequences is not only the best one in the series it is also the best part of this 1986 installment in the series. Remember, this is a world in which Bobby Ewing shows up in a shower in "Dallas" a year after he died, so it is hard to fault the producers of this film for resurrecting Jason for another festival of slicing and dicing. Besides, you can see Tommy's insane need to make sure Jason is dead as an acceptable enough rationale to justify the mistake of digging up the corpse and a nameless evil being responsible for his reanimation is as good of an explanation for what motivates our killer zombie as anything else (Okay, so the best explanation is that Paramount wanted to make more money on this franchise since clearly they have the formula down pat by this point).

But after the sizzling opening to get Jason back in the ballgame we are back to the standard routine of see the obnoxious teenager, kill the obnoxious teenager, until the final credits role and Alice Cooper belts out "The Man Behind the Mask." None of the killings stand out and the same can be said for the actors and actresses making up Jason's buffet. I do not ascribe to the insult being added to injury in "Jason Lives" because you have Arnold Horshack from "Welcome Back Kotter" but no gratuitous nudity for the simple reason that splatter flicks have to be judged by the creativity and/or gore of the deaths ("Final Destination" was the last movie that impressed me in that regard). By episode six in the "Friday the 13th" series you just do not get beyond the feeling you have seen it all before. I swear that you could mix and match the murders in these movies and most viewers would not be able to tell the difference. The bottom line is that "Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives" is an average entry in the series at best and the value of that assessment is totally dependent on how much you like the series overall.

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Summary: part 6
Review: a few horny teenagers go out to crystal lake and jason hacks them up.sound familiar?later in the series theres a telekinetic chick,ny,hell,space,andfreddy.this was the last bloodbath entirely in or around crystal lake.its good in the set about average id say.the chick is a sherriffs daughter,so you know shes sexy.the only message i can think of is stay the hell away from crystal lake and get a damn room!