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Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives

Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: MORE GORY JUNK AND BAD ACTING!!!
Review: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI is the same gory junk as the rest of the films. Jason should've stayed dead this movie is not worth seeing at all the actors are amaturish again and the effects are just as bad so avoid this piece of junk at all costs.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not a titanic compitition,but still one of the best
Review: All jason fans should see this one. Not oscar material,but a good movie. This and #7 are,in my opinion,the best of the series. If you are only planning to see one Friday the 13th,see this one. There are mistakes,like when he slices 3 people in half,you can see white crates move at the bottom of the screen. I liked this,and so did my friends. END

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a low point in the series
Review: As I said above, one of the worst in this long series, but still great fun. I'm a big fan of the series, but this one seemed lacking somehow, not quite up to par with the previous films, except part five, which it neatly outdoes. If you liked the other ones in the series, you'll like this one too. Just don't expect anything profound. Don't even expect a storyline, or anything innovative. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. END

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Incredibly funny!
Review: Showing a bit of originality, this installment in the 80's slasher series injects some humor into the story, combining good scares with snappy one-liners. Definitely what the tired series needed for a comeback! END

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: SUPER-JASON
Review: when Jason gets dug-up he goes on another killing spree.NOTHING SPECIAL,HUH!only this time he's super strong and his old 3rd time assalent,Tommy Jarvis, is suspected of the murders! END

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME MOVIE
Review: FRIDAY THE 13TH IS ONE OF THE BEST HORROR MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN SO FAR. I LIKE OF THE MOVIES IN THIS SERIES OF MURDER, AND GORE. I AM A BIG FAN OF "JASON." I COULD WATCH THIS MOVIES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THE DIRECTOR KNOWS HOW TO GET YOUR ATTENTION,EACH MOVIE HAS A THRILL. YOU WILL ENJOY EVERY MOVIE AND IT WILL LET YOU WONDER.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Trash as always..... One of the best (or "less worse")
Review: Part VI is the best (or the less mean) Friday The 13th. Somehow, the director managed to give some "honesty" to the movie, some good photography at least, I don't know to explain. It's a short movie (86 minutes) and Jason kills exactly 18 people in this one...

There are also tha fmaous absurds of this series. Talk about the ending, for example. Yes, Tommy JArvis manages to "drown" Jason in Crystal Lake. But in the end, when we get the usual hint that Jason is not dead, we see him underwater in a clear day, trapped by the chains Tommy put around him. Guess what? Is it possible that after such a maniac had killed almost one and a half people (including three policeme) tha authorities would not have digged the murderer body out of water?! Of course this is not possible! But no, Jason is left underwater, undisturbed, nobody apparently cares!!

Also funny is the fact that the girl's father had died the most brutal dead in the hands of Jason, only minutes ago, and all the girl (Megan) cares about is to support and comfort young Tommy after he finally killed Jason...

All in all, a good terro flick, if you can still consider Jason a terror flick and not a commedy.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: 'Friday the 13th' enters the self-satire zone...
Review: Uh-oh-- looks like the 'Friday the 13th' franchise decided to take a more comedic turn here, more than likely in response to the darkly humorous mayhem of 'Friday's' greatest rival pop-horror phenomenon, the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series. From the James Bond tribute in the opening credits to the Frankenstein-like reanimation of our fave slasher to the characters spouting some of the hokiest lines I've ever heard uttered in a 'Friday' flick so far, there was no way I was gonna take this load o' celluloid silliness seriously. Especially after our fave psycho's encounter with a group of paintballers. 'Course, I'd pretty much given up on taking any of 'em seriously after Part 2... but this I really Really REALLY can't take seriously! Ya know?

Adding to the cheese factor were the usual array of Jason-kills, many of which were ridiculously over-the-top and just plain unbelievable, I didn't really find 'em all that scary. Somewhat gruesome at times, but nothing all that frightful. Oh yeah, let's not forget the usual staples of Jason takin' out a buncha teenage camp counselors (including a few who invoke the 'Friday' franchise laws of Sex=Death and Pot=Death), And an ending that suggests that, in spite of his apparent 'death', out beloved psycho goalie ain't quite through yet (surprise, surprise)...

All in all, I found this go-round fairly fun to watch for the silly dialogue and overdone Jason shenanigans. So long as it's not taken seriously, it's a more than passable piece of entertainment.

'Late

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Scary Well-Done 6th Installment
Review: Friday the 13th Pt. 6 is one of the better films of the slasher series; there are a number of scenes that are genuinely scary and terrifying. Case and point, the opening "resurrection" of Jason in the storm swept graveyard. After escaping the grave, Jason once agains makes a B-line for Camp Blood on Crystal Lake, where after slashing his way through more nubile young co-eds and assorted townspeople, he confronts his grown up nemisis from Pt. 4 Tommy Jarvis. The real horror of this movie may lie around the use of a couple dozen young children as innocent by-standers in the campgrounds as the gruesome killings occur around them. Although you know there's no way you'll see Jason slice up some 7 yr. olds, the terror that he might is quite real. By this time in the series, the gore-content was extensively diminished, replaced with, unfortunately, far less-graphic scenes. (This is especially true in Pts 7 & 8) For example, you see Jason grab one girl back into the cabin, hear her scream and then tossed from the cabin but never see the actual carnage taking place. I'm sure with the impending release of "Jason X" in 2002, the gore-content will be back up to more acceptable levels. But regardless, for a good scare and quality slasher flick, Pt. 6 is top notch.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: For the Love of "Jason"
Review: "So, what were you going to be when you grew up?", asks one young camper to another, just before Jason scares the bejesus out of both of them, in "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives".

The sixth installment to the "Friday " series is still one of the best. Tommy still isn't convinced that Jason is dead so, in the middle of a lightning storm & with the help of his friend, Allen Hawes (Horseshack, from "Welcome Back Kotter"!), he decides to dig up Jason's grave & cremate him. But, when Tommy pierces Jason's corpse with an iron fence post, causing lightning to strike (twice!), old hockeypuck rises up to kill again. Crystal Lake changes its name to Camp Forrest Green but, Jason knows there is no place like home and heads there killing anything in his path. Its up to Tommy to take him down. For me, there wasn't any scare factor or suspense to this film (if you've sat thru the first five "Friday"'s, your senses to this type of violence are dulled and immune by now). What makes the film tick, much like "Freddy vs. Jason", is the amount of humor tossed in (hottie Renee Jones, thinking its a another camp counselor playing a prank on her, pours soda onto Jason's face as he hides underneath a windowsill waiting to strike. When I heard Jason's muffled reaction, I couldn't stop laughing!).

The cast of this installment went on to bigger and better things. The beautiful actress, Renee Jones, who played Sissy, joined the cast of the popular daytime drama "Days of our Lives", in February of 1993, as Dr. Lexie Carver (a surreal twist is in the current storyline to "Days" there is a serial killer loose in the town of Salem, complete with dark robes, a hunting knife, and... a hockey mask). Hottie, Jennifer Cooke, who played Megan in "Jason Lives", started the popular "Celestial Seasonings" tea company with her husband and in 1995 wrote her own book "Cooking with Tea". Thom Mathews, who played Tommy, has earned a black belt in martial arts, owns his own construction company, and continues to be a good friend of George Clooney. Actor Tony Goldwyn, who had a brief role as Darren, would go on and co-star in the blockbuster "Ghost" and also star in "The Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise, "The 6th Day", "The Pelican Brief", and be the voice of Tarzan in the Walt Disney animated film of the same name .


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