( AKA: Jason Lives : Friday the 13th Part 6 )
Tag Line : Nothing this Evil ever dies.
Tommy Jarvis returns again (played this time by Thom
Mathews), and so does Jason (now played by C.J.Graham).
Still plagued with nightmares about Jason returning from the grave, Tommy Jarvis and his friend Hawes, dig up Jason's grave so that they can destroy the body and prevent him from ever coming back. But unfortunately for Tommy and even more so for his friend, instead of finding a decaying corpse they find a very well rested Jason.
All appears to be going well, until the grave is struck by lightning. Jason then bursts out of his coffin and attacks them both. Hawes has his guts ripped out (excellent!!!) although Tommy manages to escape. Jason then dons his favourite Ice Hockey Mask and heads off back towards the former Camp Crystal Lake site.
The local police don't believe Tommy's story about Jason coming back to life and escort him out of the county. Meanwhile Jason has returned to the old camp, to find it has re-opened under the new name "Forest Green" but still, "a camp by any other name would be slaughtered just as sweetly" as the saying goes.
Numerous victims are picked off in the surrounding area, including the cheif counsellors and a group of paintballers, before turning his attentions towards the camp itself. But Tommy returns, aided by the Sherrifs daughter, and together they attempt to stop Jason by returning him to his original resting place, Crystal Lake.
This is a much better sequel than Part 5, but it is far from being the best in the series. Most of the killings seem to take place just off-camera (again) and once more, there's no real sense of fear or suspense, or even gore for that matter.
Jason's killings actually make you want to chuckle more than anything and as a matter of fact, the whole film appears to have been made as a black comedy, rather than a serious horror movie. Whilst this isn't a bad thing, I think it detracts rather badly from the earlier films, which relied heavily upon combining atmosphere, with excessive amounts of blood.
But still, as far as sequels go, this isn't a bad movie and despite the black humour it still manages to fit in line with the other sequels. There's also an excellent Hard Rock / Heavy Metal score featuring songs by Alice Cooper, that accompanied Harry Manfredini's incedental music score, which is also good and probably the films saving grace.
Overall Marks 6/10.
Other Information. Part 6 was written and directed by Tom McCloughlin and produced this time by Don Behrns. With Harry Manfredini scoring the films soundtrack once again. The film makers where obviously trying to make this adaption more comercial than the other films, considering the black comedy element and hard rock soundtrack. Apparently the caretaker of the graveyard was originaly scripted as being Jason's father, but this plot line was dropped and never used. Although it does remain in the novelisation. The German video is heavily censored and misses out most of the violence. When the film was shown on BBC1 there was an additional scene included to make up the running time. After Tommy and Megan drive off, leaving deputy Rick locked in the prison cell, the scene then cuts back to Rick who's banging on the cell window calling for help and struggling to reach the keys they left behind. Fans of the Return of the Living Dead trilogy may recognize Thom Mathews who had 2 differant -but similar- roles in the first 2 films. Thom is the second actor from those films to star in a Friday the 13th. The other of course, being Miguel Nunez from part 5. |
Buy Online.
Buy the video from Blackstar. |
| Video Clips. Requires Realplayer. Alice Cooper - He's Back |
Other films in the series.
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