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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

August. 13,1993
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Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

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Actuakers
1993/08/13

One of my all time favorites.

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Matialth
1993/08/14

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Lucia Ayala
1993/08/15

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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Candida
1993/08/16

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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falseprophet616
1993/08/17

So I rewatched the uncut version of this as a comedy and actually had a good time, pretty funny, and form-wise it isn't as bad as I initially thought.The uncut version is actually worth tracking down imo. There hasn't been an uncut BR release yet, so you'll only be able to find it on DVD or some streaming platforms. The runtimes are listed on imdb for those interested in doing so. There's also a helpful movie-censorship dot com comparison.Perhaps much of my dismay to it on first-watch, was the fact that I had just watched Part VIII, so getting another turd would have been frustrating after the abomination of Jason Takes Manhattan.The Crystal Lake Memories docu gave it some more context too.Anyway, this is definitely a guilty pleasure/good-bad for me now.

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Sean Lamberger
1993/08/18

During the 1980s, only two years passed without an entry in the Friday the 13th series. That's eight films in ten years, and while the quality usually betrayed those short production times, they always felt like kin. Spiritual relatives. It took four years for a ninth chapter to see the light of day, plus a switch from Paramount to New Line Cinema, and somewhere along the way there was a great disconnect. A true B-grade picture in every sense, Jason Goes to Hell is the worst Friday yet, and one of the most desperate, flailing, pointless films I've ever seen. Though veteran blade-swinger Kane Hodder has returned to the role, this Jason bears little resemblance to the cool, creepy psycho killer of the earlier films. Inflated and deformed, at this point he's basically a roid-raging leper in a twisted, vaguely-familiar hockey mask, but he's changed in more than just a physical sense. The story revolves around his black heart, literally migrating from host to host to inspire fresh killings after Jason himself is blown to bits in the opening scene. We've swallowed some absurdly stupid plot devices over the course of this franchise, including a similarly lame-brained "fake Jason" angle in 1985's A New Beginning, but this one sets an awful new standard. It plays like cruddy straight-to-video '90s gimmick horror, not the quaintly under-produced slasher material that had typified the series to this point. Needless to say, the acting hasn't improved (somehow, impossibly, it's actually grown much worse) and the production values, which enjoyed a well-deserved bump in Jason Takes Manhattan, are once again cut-rate and pitiful. Not a good look for New Line, proving right out of the gates that they don't understand what they're making and don't honestly care, one way or the other.

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Leofwine_draca
1993/08/19

This supposedly "final" entry in the series (although yet another has been recently, unwelcomely made) wisely takes the theme in a different direction from the repetitive stalk-and-slash antics of the previous entries. Unfortunately for us, the film decides to takes its inspiration from that underrated classic THE HIDDEN, turning Jason into an evil being that swaps human bodies by sliding from mouth to mouth! Sadly the producers still see fit to throw in a few moronic teenagers, plenty of dumb characters, and stupid dialogue. But they also make one of the slimiest, ickiest entries in the entire series and in my book, that deserves points. Whether we're watching the human vessels that Jason travels in being shot to bits, impale,d and generally destroyed, or witnessing the truly disgusting "body melt" that occurs after he leaves the body of one of his hosts (ROBOCOP has nothing on this), the special effects are pretty damn good.Although the general acting of the cast leaves something to be desired, as a bonus point for cult fans we get the appearance of Erin Gray (Wilma Deering from BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY) who shows up in a small but important role as a waitress who becomes one of Jason's victims. The male lead, who looks a lot like Ted Raimi, is actually quite good in his role, and the female lead isn't too bad either. However, the truly psychotic Steven Williams manages to steal every scene he's in as a sadistic bounty hunter following Jason's trail - just witness his totally unnecessary snapping of a man's fingers just for the hell of it. Of course fans of cult TV will no doubt recognise Williams as being the guy who played Mr. X in THE X-FILES, and the two characters are very similar: they shout a lot, throw their weight around and are generally fun to watch.So, for a Friday film, this offers us up a lot of action and violence, which is most welcome and makes things easier to take, a silly plot seemingly written on the back of a beer mat and designed to give Jason a motive (when they mentioned that Voorhees had a secret sister I groaned), and surprisingly good special effects. There are also a couple of in-jokes for movie buffs too, including the appearance of the Necronomicon from EVIL DEAD 2 and Freddy's gloved hand from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The crazy finale sees Jason being dragged into the ground by a load of giant hands which are supposed to represent the demons of hell - I was expecting more from this, especially with the build-up, the title and the fiery box art, and thus left disappointed. This isn't bad stuff though, just not particularly original. It could be worse - just try watching numbers 2, 4, 5 and 7 in this series instead. It would have made a good conclusion if they'd just decided to leave things alone after all, but when there are bucks to be made, you just know they're somehow going to contrive a reincarnation, no matter how absurd it might be...

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Jackson Booth-Millard
1993/08/20

The previous eight Friday the 13th films all came one after the other in the 1980s, with mixed results, this ninth entry was billed as being the final film in the series, but you can't keep a good psycho killer down. Basically sometime after the events in Manhattan, the undead serial killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is back at Camp Crystal Lake, he is lured into a trap by undercover FBI Agent Elizabeth Marcus (Julie Michaels), several armed men blow him to pieces, his body is destroyed and his remains taken to the Federal Morgue in Youngstown, Ohio for autopsy. Jason's putrid heart remains intact, the Coroner (Bean's Richard Gant) is fascinated by the remains, then Jason's heart starts beating, igniting a transfer of Jason's surviving soul, the coroner is possessed by Jason's demonic spirit after ingesting his heart, in the coroner's body Jason (who only shows in a mirror reflection) escapes, killing all in his path. Jason returns to Crystal Lake, where he finds and kills partying teens having sex, he also attacks two police officers, killing one and possessing the other, it is revealed later that Jason must continue transporting into other bodies, as he has a limited time to use each. Meanwhile bounty hunter Creighton Duke (Steven Williams) discovers that Jason can only be killed permanently by a member of his bloodline, and that he will return to his normal and near-invincible state if he possesses the body of a family member, his only living relatives are his half-sister Diana Kimble (Erin Gray), her daughter Jessica (Kari Keegan), and Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica, and Jessica's infant daughter Stephanie (Brooke Scher), Steven Freeman (John D. LeMay) is the father. Jason makes his way to Diana's house, she is killed, but he escapes when attacked by Steven, who is falsely arrested for murder, he meets Duke who explains Jessica's relation to Jason, Steven escapes from jail determined to get to her before Jason does. Jessica is dating American Case files reporter Robert Campbell (Steven Culp), he wants to boost ratings for his show, emphasising the return of Jason Voorhees from the dead, having stolen Diana's body from the morgue, Robert is next to have Jason's heart transferred. Jason attempts to reborn through Jessica, but is disrupted by Steven who takes her and hits him with his car, Steven tries to explain the situation to Jessica, but she doesn't believe him, throwing him out of the car and heading to the police station. Jason arrives at the police station, killing most of the officers, he nearly possesses Jessica before being stopped by Steven, she now believes him, in the chaos Duke makes his escape, Jessica and Steven go to a cafe to collect the baby, Jason is attacked by the owners before he kills them, Jessica and Steven find a note from Duke, he has the baby and demands Jessica meet him alone at the Voorhees house. At the house Duke gives Jessica a mystical dagger that she can permanently kill Jason with, meanwhile Jason transfers from Robert's body into a police officer. Duke falls through the floor, Sheriff Ed Landis (Billy Green Bush) and Officer Randy Parker (Kipp Marcus) confront Jessica, she accidentally kills Landis dropping the dagger, Randy is possessed by Jason, who attempts to reborn through Stephanie, but Steven arrives and severs his neck with a machete. Jason's heart, which has grown into a demonic infant, crawls out of Randy's neck, goes to the basement, and crawls into Diana's dead body, Duke is pulled out of the basement by Jessica and Steven as Jason is reborn into his original body (he does not need an actual living member of his family). Steven and Jessica try to retrieve the dagger, while Duke distracts Jason, he is killed, the dagger is found and Jason is stabbed in the chest, the souls Jason collected over time are released, and Jason is pulled into the depths of Hell by demonic hands, Steven and Jessica walk off with their baby into the sunset. Also starring Kane Hodder as a Security Guard, and a cameo by Freddy Krueger's arm (the ambiguous ending that lead to Freddy vs. Jason, ten years later), Rusty Schwimmer as Joey B., Leslie Jordan as Shelby, Andrew Bloch as Josh, Adam Cranner as Ward, Allison Smith as Vicki and James Gleason as Agent Abernathy. Unlike the previous films this entry does continue directly after the previous film, so Jason is essentially back from the dead with no explanation, and the same thing happened when he returned eight years later in tenth entry Jason X, critics praise the clever body- swapping concept to keep the crazed killer alive, I personally found it a bit out of place for the series, the gore was fairly good though, in my opinion it's an alright horror. Okay!

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