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Summary: JASON LIVES ON DVD,BUT PARAMOUNT KILLED HIM
Review: . This has a nice widescreen clear picture as a DVD should, but also only has the usually Paramount extras (a trailer,or teaser in this case)but at least it has Dolby Surround Sound. The movie is decent I guess itself which really matters and the death scenes are awesome(you see a heart extracted from a victim)and Jason Voorhees looks brutal in the grave with maggots on his face and eyes. Plus this movie comes as close to the original because its at Camp Crystal Lake(CAMP BLOOD),actually changes the name to ignore the killings to Forest Green ,and has cabins,kids,and of course counselers. FINAL VERDICT:PRETTY DECENT COMPARED TO OTHER FRIDAY THE 13th sequels
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Summary: Sensational sequel!
Review: The title of this movie truly means it, it's the return of Camp Crystal Lake's least favorite citizen. " Jason Voorees" has been resurrected from the grave and on the prowl for more blood while Tommy ( the boy from the Final Chapter and New Beginning) is back to destroy him for sure.Easily the scariest in the series that has pop-up scares, a hot blonde chick, some great gore to boost up and some great Alice Cooper songs.
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Summary: THIS FILM IS THE BEST IN THE SERIES
Review: THE BEST IN THE SERIES[THOUGH I LIKED PARTS 8,9,AND 10] BUT THIS INTERESTING ENTRY IS FAR BETTER THAN DEPRESSING SEQUELS LIKE NOT VERY POPULAR 1, THE DREADFUL 2, THE TERRIBLE AND WORST 3, THE DUMB AND ROUTINE 4, THE BAD AND OTHER WORST 5, THE STUPID AND LESS BLOODY 7. THIS ONE IS THE BEST OFFERING BLOOD,SCARES,LAUGHS[INCLUDING THE SOLDIERS IN THE WOODS GETTING SLAUGHTERED BY JASON] AND THIS ONE HAS THE MOST COOLEST SCENE WHERE TOMMY JARVIS AND HIS FRIEND ALLEN HEWES BOTHERING JASON'S COFFIN AND TOMMY NEEDS TO SEND JASON TO HELL, BUT WHEN A LIGHTNING BOLT HITS JASON HE RISES AND RIPS ALLEN'S HEART WITH HIS HAND ACTUALLY SHOWING THE HEART AND THE BLOOD, AND OTHER COOL SCENE WHEN DARREN GETS IMPALED BY JASON'S SILVER POLE SPEWING BLOOD ON THE TRUCK MIRROR AND LIZBETH GETTING SPEARED IN THE MOUTH BY THE SILVER POLE.I REALLY LIKED THIS FILM THOUGH WHY DON'T THE OTHERS IN THE SERIES BE MORE LIKE THIS.
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Summary: Not my favorite, not my least favorite.
Review: I wish this movie had gotten a little more creative. It returned to Camp Crystal Lake (now Camp Forest Green) and had Jason murdering the counselors. However, this one did add a new element. Kids. Unfortunately, none of them get killed. Also, they're kind of annoying. In this one, Tommy Jarvis escapes from a mental institution with his friend and they go to make sure Jason is 100% dead. Well, he is. But, lightning strikes him and he comes back to life. He kills lots of people and then the movie ends. Like all the other ones, it had sequel written all over it. Tommy got a girlfriend. I would probably give this one a B+.
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Summary: Typical 80's film
Review: I just saw this movie and i rlly did not enjoy it as much as i thought i would. First off, in the "ressurection" scene well i thought that they could of done that much better and besides how many movies have alrady taken that idea including the classic Frankenstein. Also I almost had to turn this off in disgust because off the terrible acting! from the drunk gravekeeper to the paintball gun people in the near beggining it was all TERRIBLE I could rant on about the negatives for a very long time but ill just skip to the good thing about this; the killings! they were very good and at times slightly amusing, also i liked the new(er) Jason, he came quite a ways from wearing a sack over his head in the first! So all in all, there were some bad things in this movie and there were good things, so the least u can do it rent and see it for yourself
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Summary: Now it's personal!
Review: This chapter of the Friday the 13th series is better than most before and after it. For one thing, it has more energy, more old tension, some unsettled scores to settle! It begins where the last chapter left off. Back in the last chapter, our star hero, Tommy, had one mean terrifying showdown with Jason, the notorious hocky-masked serial murder from Camp Crystal Lake, who killed his friends and family. He did what many people got killed trying to do, kill Jason. And to add onto that, he did it as a child. Tommy Jarvis, now 25, is still haunted by visions and fear of his old nemesis, Jason Voorhees. He is comitted to a mental hospital, but therapy is not helping him forget the nightmare. Finally, Tommy decides to make sure Jason doesn't come back. Finding that Jason is still in his grave at the cemetary, Tommy drives a metal stake through Jason's chest in a fit of anger. But unfortunatly, he should have left Jason's grave alone. A lightning bolt stikes the pole, filling Jason's corpse with 100,000 volts of electircal energy (sound framiliar?). Within moments, the diabolical Jason is out of his coffin to pick up where he left off, and to get revenge on the one who killed him. Realizing that his nightmares of Jason returning from the grave were true, Tommy runs. He arrives at the sheriff's office and things go from bad to worse. Tommy is caught in a fix even bigger than the one he was in last time, for now he tells everyone that Jason is back, and no one believes him! Meanwhile, Camp Crystal Lake (now called Camp Forest Green in the hopes that it will help the residents forget the camp's bloody history) has reopened with lots of kids in for a weekend of fun and games at camp. While awaiting in a cell at the police station, Tommy takes on an ally, the sheriff's spunky and sexy daughter, Megan, who takes a fancy to him. Before long, however, Jason returns to his hunting ground at Crystal Lake and the body count begins to add up. Plus, the cynical and rather unfeeling sheriff thinks Tommy is doing the murders and accusing Jason to make people think that his story is true. Realizing that it's time to end it, Tommy escapes from the county prison with the help of Megan to save the innocent children campers before Jason does his worst homicide atrocity yet. But how can he do that with both a skeptical, over-protective sheriff and an undead, homicidal, machette-wielding maniac out top take him down? One reason why I liked this movie is that Jason has an old enemy. In most Friday the 13th movies, there are all new characters each time, not including Jason. Having an old enemy that brings us from a time long ago to now can really add to the twist of things. Plus, I find it great that the main character, hero, and protagonist of the movie is a guy and not a girl. In a lot of Jason movies, the surviving heroic character is a girl, with almost nothing to lose. In this one, they take it in a different direction with a male hero who has some unsettled scores. That what really makes this movie good. Another is that a whole camp full of innocent childrenis in danger. A common element in Jason movies is that kids are not really involved, for I have never really seen a Jason movie where young kids are in the danger of getting killed by Jason. This sort of thing adds to Tommy's determination to stop Jason.
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Summary: Showing Campers You Care
Review: When Jason Vorhees walked the Earth a man, he managed many a maiming to further his desires for revenge and all-around carnage-driven bliss. Still, those days are over now, and the ending of those chronicles can be attributed to one disturbed little fish that got away by the name of Tommy. Well, this ending seems to have led Tommy to a need for closure to visions he's been plagued with since those moments, one that involves digging up the worm-encrusted Vorhees with a mask in tow, introducing his body to the wonderful kiss of flames, and making certain that everything has ended once and for all. So, its off to Forest Greens, the artist formerly known as Crystal Lake (and Camp Blood for anyone tuning in this long) to find those remains. Unfortunately for everyone save the viewers, Tommy alters the plan a little and decides that stabbing Jason with a metal fencepost sounds like a good idea, and after that little anger therapy session is done that little unforeseen scenario enters the equation. Yes, the heavens spill out a little electric laughter and that storm finds the metal in the post a delicious beast to speak to and, in doing so, awakens something of a monster from the depths where once only a man slept. Thus, a true killer is born. Although many found this movie not to their liking because it strayed outside of the Vorhees cycle's atypical flow and gave him a true way to return time and again, I found myself enjoying it for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it was an extremely high bodycount tale, clocking in at 18 deaths in the human realm and one in the cockroach department (O those evil sheriffs and their trigger-happy shoe usage!). These included a variety of people that happened to be trying their hands at all sorts of things, including hunting one another for sport with paintballs, driving around in their slightly boring vehicles on mud that people obviously consider roads somewhere, enjoying the bliss of bodily altercation without the benefit of clothing, foolishness in the realms of choosing to picnic in some really creepy woods, and so on. Some of these deaths were highly painful looking, too, making it all the more interesting to note as they contorted here and their, begging, pleading, and snapping their way to a chorus of "ouches" from my watching lips. Second, the storyline involved was a fun-filled romp through the killing woodlands, throwing little prods at the former movies of the genre without doing too much to harm them and giving viewers something they want - a Crystal Lake, oops, I mean Forest Greens community under siege. This worked out well, not letting the boredom of sloppy extremities get in the way of the old-fashioned depths of a massacre that always seemed to be looming just inside the shadows. Third, the actors used in the movie worked out fairly well, none being superstar material but all being good enough to enjoy the press of some metallic object as it sweetly kissed them goodnight, keeping me entertained while Jason systematically worked his way through people like a knife would through so much butter. Lastly, the quality of the DVD release is good, capturing all the picture quality and removing the grainy nature that I've seen many and many a time - letting I and a Jason defying the realms of death play in fields that we both seem to enjoy rather well. For those purists out there in the slasher genre, I would first tell you not to watch the movie because you might not like the turns it takes and would then ask you why you've watched the series this far at all to begin with. It has gone from the original concept of a vengeful boy powered by a mother that had some neck-to-head related woes, becoming something that is comical in some rights and quite murderous in others. So, for lovers of these things that want to avoid a few acres of death and hope beyond hope that a camper might just end up on the wrong side of a hockeymask, this might be something you'd enjoy as much as I have. For demented kids of all machete-toting ages!
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Summary: Jason Lives!
Review: Now back in the New Beginning when it was not jason, it lost a plethora amount interset for fans of jason, but the writers did it again. Usually in Friday movie Jason always shows up without being explained. In this installme they finally explain! The story is close to the first film in which the camp has opened up and kids are usually there when the return of jason, struck by lighting in his grave, to stalk the children. On the other the character in this installment who happens to be Tommy must stop jason before he kill again thus of his power and horrific strength. This one is a great installment to the trilogy and at times can be quite scary. The gore is also a good heads up along with the acting.
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Summary: One of the best given shoddy DVD treatment
Review: As a Friday fan this movie would get 5 stars, but I have to knock off one for the typically lousy job they did with this DVD. First, of course, is no extras. Oh yeah...a trailer. Same as all the other Fridays. Two, lazy job. Dolby 2.0 mix. Wow. I know I know, we need to hear Alice Cooper's "He's Back" song (written for the film, impressive) in clear surround sound. Three--what on earth is with the artwork? Is it actually too much to ask for to get the original artwork? Same with Part V and Part VII. How's the movie though? This installment basically changed the tone of the series a bit. Jason Lives because Tommy Jarvis inadvertantly brings him back to life (with the assistance of his friend, played by none other than Horshak of Welcome Back, Kotter fame!) Jason is pretty much a full-blown zombie from here on out. He just keeps coming at you. He gets shot a few times, survives a car wreck, gets his brain sashimied by a motorboat propellor, gets whacked in the head with a shovel by Horshak before ripping Horshak's still-beating heart of his chest. This is the first self-reflexive Friday flick--it's the first time they throw in any real humor. They update the tone with an acknowledgement of the genre. And then go ahead and proceed with the genre standard stalk-and-slash. The direction is also a little bit more stylish here. How's Jason? He's back, and he's apparently very pissed off that someone woke him up. This movie got butchered by the MPAA, and if you do some reading online you'll find that all of the murders were apparently much more graphic and gory. So they cut them out and never bothered to restore them for VHS or DVD. It would make a great feature for ALL of the Friday films, but fans have yet to see Paramount make the effort. Nevertheless, we find Jason up to new and old tricks. He shows some amazing feats of strength with Horshak, then rams a girl's face so hard into an RV wall that it leaves a deep imprint on the others side, then crushes one guys skull with his bares hands, and then even bends a guy so far backwards he snaps his spine like a branch. Very demented stuff. Jason also hacks his way through the fools who were dumb enough to choose a career in camp counseling. There are quite a few beheadings, including 3-at-once that was clearly sliced by the MPAA to almost nothing. You get great action with the cruel yet witty deaths. You also get the second best Jason in my opinion, in CJ Graham (Hodder would take over after). You also get stupid yet welcome humor ("So, what were you gonna be when you grew up?" asks a camper of his friend as they hide from Jason). It's cheesy, the victims are idiots, the cops are idiots, etc, etc. But it's easily one of the best Fridays. If you just can't be bothered watching your worn-out VHS copy, then the DVD might be worth it. But once again they really dropped the ball when it came to releasing these flicks.
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Summary: TOMMY -GOOD, JASON-BAD!!!
Review: I did'nt know what the makers of part 5 were trying to have us believe.Last we saw Tommy Jarvis,he looked liked he was turning bad.Now,he does'nt seem so tormented.It starts with a trip to the cemetary, to dig up Jason's grave for proof that he's dead.HELLO!!,Jason is buried,leave him there.Tommy's plan backfires in one of many ridiculious ways Jason comes back to life,from this point on.What's with all of the explosions when the lighting hits him?Next,is the OH SO wrong ripoff of the James Bond movie trademark at the start of the credits.We see Jason walking sideways,then turns to the audience and swings his machette at us.What follows is, Jason tearing through campers and counslers while Tommy's trying to convince the tightly wound sheriff that Jason is the killer.In part 6, we see Jason becoming more unstopable.This Jason is played very well with relentless stamina.You can clearly see he means bussiness, storming through the woods.I thought both Tommys from parts 5 and 6 were great in their own portrayals.The deaths go from gruesome to stupid(Jason throws a weekend warrior, face first into a tree.When the guy slides off the tree,you see a smiley face on it).Some of this is hokey,but it has some of the best thrills in the series.The movie gets three stars, with one extra for the Alice Cooper song at the end credits.
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