Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 Directed by Joseph Zito
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Jason's Back, and this is the one you've been screaming for.
After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in addition to terrified teenagers, he meets a young boy named Tommy who has a special talent for horror masks and make up, leading up to a horrifying, bloody battle! Has Jason finally met his match?
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Easily one of the very best of the series, if not the best.
The young characters are likeable and highly relatable (possibly due to the screenplay being written by a former AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL writer), and it adds the intriguing element of a (also highly sympathetic) single-parent family, including bad-ass final girl Trish (Kimberly Beck) and her little brother Tommy (Corey Feldman!) Plus, Crispin Glover and his weird dance moves!
Like Parts 2 and 3, the last 20 minutes or so of THE FINAL CHAPTER are a suspenseful, gritty, exceptionally well-done extended chase sequence/battle between Jason (played by the alarmingly imposing Ted White) and the sibling duo, during (of course) a scary thunderstorm, followed by a VERY memorable Jason death. Bottom line: this movie is a blast.
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Part of Friday the 13th for Friday the 12th
Of all the people that could have killed Jason, the only one who could get the job done was one half of the Corey twins. Guess where he is now...
Poor guy. He never did quite recover from hacking away at Jason.
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Everyone in this film is a horndog. Everyone. This chapter went full-out. Nothing held back. Even the coroner was a lusty pervbomb. Even the goddamn prepubescent child was obsessed with sex and nudity. He SCREAMED and thrashed around when he spied two people kissing in a neighboring window. What a charmer.
P.S. This movie actually had good cinematography. Odd.
P.P.S. Did that hospital leave Jason's clothes and hockey mask on when they wheeled him in to perform an autopsy? Isn't that, like...the most retarded thing ever?
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What a genius idea this movie had! The makers must have thought "Well, there's probably a bunch of 10 year old horror fiends who'd love to be in a Jason movie, so let's make the guy who kills Jason a 10 year old so all the kids at home can relate!"
On top of that, we have a more going on here than usual. In addition to horny teens (now with more twins, porn flicks and Crispin Glover!), we've got a monster-obsessed Corey Feldman (!) and his family AND we've got a lone wolf on the hunt for Jason and revenge! (Although that dude puts up the least amount of fight in slasher history, ironically.)
Jason is less fun to watch in this than in Part 3, but he's a lot more physically imposing and sadistic (hammering corpses to doorways to prevent people from escaping?! It's like a "Saw" movie or something!)
And then the insane climax! Woah!
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Best entry in the series?
Savini at his prime, Corey Fledman as one of the great Slasher foils, Crispen Glover being Crispen Glover, Joe Zito making a very tight and sleazy entry into the franchise. Everything just clicks into place in part 4 and really sets the bar for pop corn slasher films for years to come.
So let me put this into my computer. *click*click*click* yes it is the best of all the Friday the 13th films in my humble opinion.
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The third one in my marathon of Jason, and the one I liked the most. Jason is more brutal and consolidated as the most Badass brutal iconic killer from horror movies. For the first time they've added other characters, so Jason kills more than only the usual teens.
Tom Savini make up is awesome, as usually and the movie as a whole looked more dark and brutal. The soundtrack is much better used here than it was in Part II and III, we can see that in the scene where Tommy slashs Jason, that's one of the best of the series by the way, and Tommy is one of the coolest characters, it's a shame what they did to him…
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This is the one with Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover - therefore, it rules.
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Everyone in this film is a horndog. Everyone. This chapter went full-out. Nothing held back. Even the coroner was a lusty pervbomb. Even the goddamn prepubescent child was obsessed with sex and nudity. He SCREAMED and thrashed around when he spied two people kissing in a neighboring window. What a charmer.
P.S. This movie actually had good cinematography. Odd.
P.P.S. Did that hospital leave Jason's clothes and hockey mask on when they wheeled him in to perform an autopsy? Isn't that, like...the most retarded thing ever?
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What a genius idea this movie had! The makers must have thought "Well, there's probably a bunch of 10 year old horror fiends who'd love to be in a Jason movie, so let's make the guy who kills Jason a 10 year old so all the kids at home can relate!"
On top of that, we have a more going on here than usual. In addition to horny teens (now with more twins, porn flicks and Crispin Glover!), we've got a monster-obsessed Corey Feldman (!) and his family AND we've got a lone wolf on the hunt for Jason and revenge! (Although that dude puts up the least amount of fight in slasher history, ironically.)
Jason is less fun to watch in this than in Part 3, but he's a lot more physically imposing and sadistic (hammering corpses to doorways to prevent people from escaping?! It's like a "Saw" movie or something!)
And then the insane climax! Woah!
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This time its literally just teenagers getting together, fooling around as much as the y can, finding an excuse to be alone outside or something so Jason can kill them. It's kind of fun, could be excellent for a drinking game.
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Here is the best that the Friday the 13th series has to offer, mainly because it gives the character of Jason his best showcase and without a doubt, the best of his many "deaths."
While Pamela Voorhees laid the groundwork, it was Jason who is the big dick a’ swinging throughout this series. But the Jason from the first four movies is a far cry from the Jason we see in Parts VI-VIII, and therein lies the fundamental difference between the first four movies and the last four. While Jason was never what one would call “human,” he at least had human qualities in the first four movies and therefore gave the audience a rooted interest in the survival of…
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Slasher Horror, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover
The ending of this movie stuck in my head more than any other as a kid and it was still great today. Would have been a great way to end the series. Corey Feldman is awesome as Tommy, i didnt remember Crispin Glover was in this he was good too as his insecure self.
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Suffers heavily from having a huge cast and separate groups. I must admit, aside from Feldman and his sister, I was almost completely lost about who was who. You have a lot of characters you don't care about, you have no tension and there were very few laughs.
So why the 2.5 stars? Holy shit some of those kills were awesome. The slow-mo pull and throw of the girl out the window and onto the car... brilliantly shot, one of the best horror kills I've seen. It was also surprising, Jason was killing in some genius and unique ways. If it had tension to back these kills up it would have been shit-yourself level scary.
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Jason, now is immortal!
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Easily one of the very best of the series, if not the best.
The young characters are likeable and highly relatable (possibly due to the screenplay being written by a former AFTERSCHOOL SPECIAL writer), and it adds the intriguing element of a (also highly sympathetic) single-parent family, including bad-ass final girl Trish (Kimberly Beck) and her little brother Tommy (Corey Feldman!) Plus, Crispin Glover and his weird dance moves!
Like Parts 2 and 3, the last 20 minutes or so of THE FINAL CHAPTER are a suspenseful, gritty, exceptionally well-done extended chase sequence/battle between Jason (played by the alarmingly imposing Ted White) and the sibling duo, during (of course) a scary thunderstorm, followed by a VERY memorable Jason death. Bottom line: this movie is a blast.