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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong>\u00a0 (1993)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unrated Version (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Adam Marcus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Dean Lorey and Jay Huguely\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bill Dill\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 13, 1993 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Steven Williams, Alison Smith, Steven Culp, Billy Green Bush, Erin Gray, Rusty Schwimmer, Leslie Jordan, Andrew Bloch, Kipp Marcus, Richard Gant, Adam Cranner, Julie Michaels, Dean Lorey, Michelle Clunie, Michael B. Silver, Kathryn Atwood, Kane Hodder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $15.9 million (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count:\u00a0 18 kills and 4 possessions<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Shortly after the lackluster Jason Takes Manhattan, Paramount sold the rights to the F13 franchise to New Line Cinema (the house that Freddy Krueger built). The time span between the eighth and ninth installments was four years, the longest fans had gone without a new F13 flick. Originally titled Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part IX: Jason Goes to Hell, it was changed to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong> in hopes that it would create more interest among fans. It\u2019s a good title, but the purist in me likes the first title better. Once again, the word \u201cfinal\u201d is in the title. Final, really? REALLY? We\u2019ve been through this before and know the score.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019d like to preface my next point by saying that I do like Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong>. It\u2019s campily entertaining and has a fair amount of gore. My problem with it is that it attempts to explain why Jason Voorhees can\u2019t die. BAD IDEA! Some things are just better left unexplained. The fact that Jason can\u2019t be killed is something that should be accepted on faith alone, much like a child believes in Santa Claus bringing toys to all the children of the world in a single night. It\u2019s a paradox really. I wanted to know why Jason couldn\u2019t die, but deep down I really didn\u2019t. All that aside, the explanation offered up here is absolutely ludicrous, so much that I still shake my head in disbelief twenty-odd years later. It should have torpedoed the movie entirely, but strangely enough doesn\u2019t. Oh, it\u2019s a bad movie, but it\u2019s the kind that you don\u2019t mind watching as it\u2019s so much goofy fun.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0In the years since his trip to New York, Jason has somehow returned to his old stomping grounds and resumed his murderous ways. As this latest chapter opens, a young woman makes her way to a cabin at Crystal Lake. It\u2019s nighttime, she\u2019s alone and does all the things that girls in horror flicks shouldn\u2019t do (e.g. goes outside to get something from a shed, takes a shower). Sure enough, our hockey-masked friend appears and chases her through the woods \u2026. right into a trap set up by the FBI. They literally blow him to pieces. The fact that they think it\u2019s really over says very little about their understanding of who they\u2019re dealing with here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Jason\u2019s remains are taken to a secure government facility for the autopsy. The coroner (Gant, Rocky V) becomes hypnotized and eats Jason\u2019s heart. He becomes possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. Let me lay it down for you. The spirit, which manifests itself as a black slug-like creature, moves from one body to another as it needs to, usually when one body becomes too physically damaged to continue. Yeah, RIGHT! Furthermore, in order for Jason to return to his original state, he needs to be reborn by way of a blood relative. Conversely, only a Voorhees can kill a Voorhees. Kind of like only a ninja can destroy a ninja, right?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As it turns out, Jason does have family in the Crystal Lake area, namely half-sister Diana Kimble (Gray, Buck Rogers), her grown daughter Jessica (Keegan) and infant granddaughter Stephanie. Circumstances force Jessica to return to Crystal Lake and be reunited with ex-boyfriend\/baby daddy Steven (LeMay). He\u2019s fully aware of the situation thanks to bounty hunter Creighton Duke (Williams, The Blues Brothers) who also wants Jason finished for good. The killer transfers into a few different bodies in his vigorous pursuit of Jessica and her baby while Steven tries to protect them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As I write this, I\u2019m thinking about my initial reaction to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong> upon seeing it opening day way back when. It sounds more like a sequel to The Hidden (another New Line release) than an F13 movie. It\u2019s this kind of thing that makes me smile with bewildered delight. At least the movie doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously. Directed by Adam Marcus, it\u2019s decidedly tongue-in-cheek, especially with allusions to other classic horror flicks of the 80s. I won\u2019t spoil the surprise by pointing them out here, I\u2019ll only tell you to pay attention to certain background objects in the old Voorhees house. This raises a real quandary for me. Should I discuss the final scene or not? I mean, this movie is 21 years old, so most people have seen it. Also, it sets up the events of a particular sequel, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m dropping a major spoiler. I guess I\u2019ll leave it alone for now.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0One thing that I really like about Jason Goes to Hell<\/strong> is that it marks a reunion of sorts. Producer Sean S. Cunningham and composer Harry Manfredini both return to the series. Also, Kane Hodder makes this third appearance as Jason. It dawns on me that I failed to mention him in previous reviews and the man certainly deserves his props. He makes a great Jason Voorhees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I also haven\u2019t mentioned the best kill scenes yet. They are as follows: an assistant coroner gets stabbed in the back of the skull with a probe, a naked woman gets cut in half from behind (very bloody!), Jason smashes two cops\u2019 heads together, a man\u2019s arm is graphically broken, another gets scalded in a deep-fryer, a woman\u2019s face is literally smashed in, another woman\u2019s head is squeezed until blood squirts out and a decapitation. I counted 18 onscreen deaths and 4 body jumps (I didn\u2019t count them with the killings). The previous two F13 installments weren\u2019t particularly gory, so it\u2019s nice to see a return to form. Actually, Jason Goes to Hell<\/strong> is the goriest F13 yet. Of course, I\u2019m talking about the unrated version on DVD as opposed to the one released theatrically. Other than the woman being cut in half, I couldn\u2019t say what was added or expanded.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong> may be more-than-sufficiently bloody, but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that it\u2019s the silliest entry in the series. If I may return to a point previously made, sometimes the answer to a burning question proves unsatisfying. Perhaps it\u2019s best not to seek answers at all to certain questions. I remember hearing a classmate make a similar point when 2010 came out in December \u201984. He said that while it\u2019s a good movie, it spoiled the mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I get it, I really do. That being said, I like Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday<\/strong> as a slasher flick, but not as an explanation of Jason\u2019s immortality. I prefer to keep thinking of him as the hockey-masked killer that never dies no matter what.<\/p>\r\n Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday\u00a0 (1993)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unrated Version (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Adam Marcus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Dean Lorey and Jay Huguely\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bill Dill\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 13, 1993 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: John D. 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