This particular chapter didn't figure quite as strongly in my childhood as the two on either side of it. I'm not sure why that is. I know I saw it, or most of it, piecemeal on TV. But my memories of this were scattered.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
It becomes fairly obvious by the seventh film in the
series that the Friday the 13th
franchise was desperately seeking new ideas. So in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, instead of
simply unleashing Jason onto an unwitting group of youths in the woods,
screenwriters Daryl Haney and Manuel Fidello decided to provide him with an
adversary he’d never seen before. That’s how we wind up with Tina Shepherd, a
teenager blessed (or cursed depending on your perspective) with the power of
telekinesis. Her abilities are introduced in a brief prologue in which she
accidentally kills her father by causing the collapse of a dock at Crystal
Lake.
