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Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part VI: Jason Lives<\/strong>\u00a0 (1986)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Tom McLoughlin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tom McLoughlin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jon Kranhouse\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 1, 1986 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Renee Jones, Kerry Noonan, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Vincent Guastaferro, Tony Goldwyn, Nancy McLoughlin, Ron Palillo, Alan Blumenfeld, Matthew Faison, Ann Ryerson, Wallace Merck, Whitney Rydbeck, C.J. Graham, Bob Larkin, Michael Swan, Courtney Vickery, Roger Rose, Cynthia Kania, Thomas Nowell, Justin Nowell.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $19.4 million (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 18<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: **** (four stars)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Whereas A New Beginning was unintentionally funny, director Tom McLoughlin (One Dark Night) deliberately goes for laughs in the decidedly tongue-in-cheek sequel Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part VI: Jason Lives<\/strong>. What makes it so funny is how self-aware it is. Here\u2019s an example, upon seeing Jason Voorhees standing in the middle of a dark road, a passenger in a car quips, \u201cI\u2019ve seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.\u201d That right there is a stroke of brilliance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0McLoughlin makes clear his intent in the movie\u2019s opening moments with Jason\u2019s first victim. It\u2019s none other than Ron Palillo looking exactly like his Arnold Horshack character from Welcome Back, Kotter. All that\u2019s missing is the trademark laugh. It gets the party started with a bang, that\u2019s for sure. The other thing McLoughlin does with Jason Lives<\/strong> is retcon the events of Part V thus making The Final Chapter the indirect predecessor. What this means is that Jason Voorhees (Graham) is back with a vengeance. Great news for fans, no?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Because of its different approach to the material, Jason Lives<\/strong> received many positive reviews from critics and raves from fans of the series. In my opinion, it\u2019s the best of all the sequels. Even though it\u2019s comedic, it doesn\u2019t skimp on the gore and violence. This one is a bit of a bloodbath with heads and limbs being torn off left and right and strewn about the woods. It\u2019s also surprisingly clever with its overt references to Frankenstein.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It\u2019s been several years since the gruesome killings depicted in parts 2-4 and people would just as soon forget the whole bloody business. The town of Crystal Lake has been renamed Forest Green and things are quiet. At least they were until Tommy Jarvis (Mathews, The Return of the Living Dead) returns and digs up Jason. He intends to cremate him as a means of closure, but winds up resurrecting him instead by way of a bolt of lightning and a metal fence post. He runs to the local sheriff (Kagen) to warn him, but gets locked up as it\u2019s assumed he\u2019s hallucinating again. This couldn\u2019t have happened at a worse time; a group of teens including the sheriff\u2019s daughter Megan (Cooke, V) plan to reopen the camp with some friends- Sissy (Jones), Paula (Noonan) and Cort (Fridley, Summer Camp Nightmare). They\u2019re worried because the two head counselors, Darren (Goldwyn, Ghost) and Lizbeth (McLoughlin), have gone missing. Oh yeah, Jason got \u2018em! He also gets a group of business executives playing paintball in the woods. He racks up a respectable body count by the time he makes it to the camp. The sheriff refuses to listen to Tommy and forces him to leave town. Not so easily deterred, he enlists Megan\u2019s aid in obtaining the supplies he\u2019ll need to finish off Jason once and for all. McLoughlin incorporates elements of the supernatural by requiring Tommy to return Jason to his home soil (the waters of Crystal Lake) in order to \u201ckill\u201d him. BTW, Megan is the last girl standing in case you didn\u2019t guess.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The best word to describe Jason Lives<\/strong> is cool. In addition to Harry Manfredini\u2019s iconic score, rocker Alice Cooper contributes three songs, one of which is titled \u201cTeenage Frankenstein\u201d. Okay, I\u2019ve given you two Frankenstein references, now here\u2019s a third. One scene shows Tommy making a phone call outside \u201cKarloff\u2019s General Merchandise\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Now for the killings, what do we have this time? The highlights are as follows: a man has his heart ripped out, a triple beheading, a girl has her head torn off, another girl has her head crushed so hard against a bathroom mirror that the shape of her face can be seen on the other side, a man has a knife rammed into his skull, somebody gets their back broken, an old drunk gets stabbed with a broken whiskey bottle and a couple gets impaled while sitting on a motorcycle. Jason leaves a bloody mess, but when done with a wink and a smile on the part of the makers, it doesn\u2019t seem as bad. The characters are quite likable. The acting is actually pretty decent this time out, especially by Fridley and DeMoss. He\u2019s cool and she\u2019s hot. They have a humorous sex scene together in a \u201cborrowed\u201d RV. The gore effects are very good.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Jason Lives<\/strong> is a top-notch production all the way. But I must once again point out that I love its sense of self-awareness. Near the end, when the campers are hiding under their bunks, one boy turns to another and asks, \u201cWhat were you going to be when you grew up?\u201d It\u2019s moments like this that make Jason Lives<\/strong> transcend the mad slasher genre. For me, it\u2019s the last truly great F13 flick.<\/p>\r\n Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives\u00a0 (1986)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Tom McLoughlin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Tom McLoughlin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jon Kranhouse\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 1, 1986 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Renee Jones, Kerry Noonan, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Vincent Guastaferro, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-VI-Jas.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-VI-Jason-Lives-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C966&ssl=1\")
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