This is the other of two Friday the 13th films that I remembered best because it played on TV a lot at a crucial time when I was growing up. I had certain deaths from this movie in particular kind of etched into my brain.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
After a one film diversion in which a mere mortal takes
the murderous reins from Jason in Fridaythe 13th: A New Beginning, the real deal Jason was
brought back by popular demand. Things really start to run off the rails for
this series in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th
Part VI. It still has enough earnestness in its voice to believe that
writer and director Tom McLoughlin’s intention was to make a serious horror
film. You could read it as a bit tongue in cheek as in the self-referential
moment when a woman driving a car in the woods stops short and tells her
boyfriend (Hey! Is that Tony Goldwyn?) she’s seen enough horror movies to know
that you don’t mess with a big guy wearing a mask.
