Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives - Film Review
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is directed by Tom McLoughlin and stars Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, and C.J. Graham as Jason.
Plot
Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.
Review
This is my favorite of the Friday the 13th series. I love this film. This is the most fun film in the series, due to it being a self-aware, intentionally fun movie. It even has a James Bond style opening.
After A New Beginning was hated by fans when it came out because there was no Jason, so in this movie, they brought Jason back from the dead as a zombie, bringing us Zombie Jason.
The film is funny in some parts too, like when those people are playing paintball and Jason kills them and he rips the guys arm off and he's stabbed by a tree and he leaves a smiley face on it's bark.
I also love where that couple is driving to the camp and Jason appears in front of them and the woman tries to give him money to leave them alone and when she dies you see the American Express credit card in the water. Jason only accepts MasterCard and Visa.
I also love that kid who says that they're dead meat and another kids asks him what he was going to be when he grows up.
I'm sure this line shows how non-horror fans think of horror fans.
Alice Cooper even did a song for the movie, and it's one of the best pieces of music in the series along with the theme from Part III.
This movie also has some really good kills, like I mentioned the paintball and the credit card scenes. There's one scene where Jason kills the sheriff (David Kagen) by bending him completely backwards. There's a scene in the beginning where Jason kills Tommy's friend by punching a hole through him and ripping his heart out right after being resurrected.
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Tommy Jarvis is back in this movie, once again played by a different actor. I heard that Reggie and Pam were supposed to be in here, but John Shepherd became a born again Christian and didn't want to play Tommy again and it would look weird if they had Reggie and Pam without the same Tommy. I'm not sure how true that is because I heard it online.
Thom Mathews is probably my favorite Tommy Jarvis. He is still haunted by the events of The Final Chapter and sets out to destroy Jason's corpse once and for all, only for Jason to be resurrected by a metal pole jammed inside him getting struck by lightning. I'm impressed at how Tommy and his friend are able to dig down to Jason's coffin in only a minute. He tries to get the sheriff to believe him, but it's a horror movie so the sheriff won't believe anything. Thom Mathew's Tommy is a playable character in Friday the 13th: The Game.
Jennifer Cooke isn't bad as Melissa, the girl who helps Tommy with defeating Jason and she's pretty much his love interest. Also, her dad is the sheriff and sheriffs in horror movies never believe anythng.
David Kagen is good as the sheriff, but as I said, he's pretty much the disbelieving sheriff cliche. He doesn't believe Tommy when he says Jason is back and tries all he can to stop Tommy from proving it only to get killed by Jason.
C. J. Graham is a really good Jason, he's not Kane Hodder, but he's up there. I can't think of much to say other than he's a really good Jason.
Overall, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a great installment in the Friday the 13th series and my favorite of the series.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives gets a 9/10.
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