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Summary: Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Review: The fans have deeply appreciated the first three installments to the Friday The 13th slot. In 1984, director Joseph Zito had brought horror fans the fourth and supposedly last installment to the Friday The 13th franchise. This fourth and horrifying, but not final, installment is appropriately titled, Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter.
Friday The 13th: The Final Friday starts off where we last saw Jason (played by Ted White): lying in Chris Higgins' barn, supposedly dead. He is then taken off to the hospital morgue and is admitted by Axel (played by Bruce Mahler), the man who puts the corpses in the cold boxes. After signing in Jason, Axel goes into the lobby for a little flirting with Morgan (played by Lisa Freeman), one of the hospital's sexy young nurses. Morgan is either not really interested in Axel, or she is, but is just playing the hard-to-get b*tch. She heads into the cold room to watch the news, when she is startled by Axel. She watches the news, until she and Axel begin making out. As they make out, Jason's supposedly lifeless hand falls out of the blanket and caresses Morgan's leg, scaring the hell out of her and Axel. Morgan screams at Axel and goes on with her job. Axel loads Jason into one of the boxes and closes the door, considering Jason to be sealed deal, but Axel has made the stupid mistake of leaving the door unlocked. As he watches an exercise program, Jason appears behind him with a hacksaw and slices Axel's throat. He enters the medicine closet and kills off Morgan.
The next morning we meet the Jarvis family. There's the lovely Mrs. Jarvis (played by Joan Freeman), the young and beautiful Trish Jarvis (played by Kimberly Beck), and the fun 12-year-old, Tommy Jarvis (played by Corey Feldmen). Tommy is an aficiendo in horror films and horror make-up. The kids learn from their mother that the house next is being rented by six fun teenagers.
The six teenagers are on their way. The six teens are: Doug (played by Peter Barton), Paul (played by Alan Hayes), Samantha `Sam' (played by Judie Aronson), Sara (played by Barbara Howard), Ted (played by Lawrence Monoson), and Jim (played by Crispin Glover, in his pre-Back-To-The-Future days). They stop to look at the map for directions and they drive on, as they pass by a cemetery, where the first grave is...Mrs. Voorhees. Late that night, the teens arrive.
The next morning, the teens are walking over to the lake, where they meet Tina (played by Camilla Moore) and her twin sister, Terri (played by Carrie Moore). They twins decide to join the teens and have a little fun. Tommy and Trish have just pulled in and decided not to stay. As Tommy and Trish head on home, their car breaks down. As Tommy tries to fix it, a young man named Rob Dier (played by E. Erich Anderson), the brother of Sandra Dier (who was killed by Jason in the second film, through double impaltion while having sex with Jeff). He fixes their car and accepts Trish's offer for a lift. He stays with the Jarvis' for a few hours and sets out into the woods to set up camp, where he is supposedly hunting bear, when he is really hunting Jason.
That night, the teens next door are having a party. Tina seems to be a little too flirtatious with Paul, this making Sam jealous, since Paul and Sam are dating. Sam goes out for a skinny dip, at a nearby lake. Instead of having a relaxing swim, Jason kills her off. As the night goes on, Jason gets around to killing Paul, who has decided to catch up with Sam, Terri, Jim, Tina, Ted, Doug, Sara (after the two showered together), and Mrs. Jarvis. Tommy and Trish return home from wherever they had gone out to and find that their mother is gone. While Trish tries to find Rob, Tommy stays behind to fix the lights. Trish finds Rob, where he tells Trish the real reason to why he's here. They run back to make sure that Tommy is safe, in which he is. Tommy stays behind, while Rob and Trish head over next door to check on the teens. Trish finds them all dead and runs down to the basement to tell Rob, only she witnesses Rob getting killed by Jason.
Trish runs back home and takes Tommy to safety. As Trish battles Jason downstairs in her living room, Tommy comes up with a plan to distract Jason, leading into killing Jason once and for all. Tommy runs downstairs in tight shorts and a shaved head, reminding Jason of he once looked like as a child. At that moment, Trish swipes off Jason's hockey mask, to reveal that hideous face for the third time. Tommy comes over to Jason and hacks him up with his own machete.
If you thought that the first three films were horrifying, you better think again. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter is the most horrifying film in the entire franchise and it will, indeed, do more than chill you to the bone. Now, put that damn camping gear down, and watch Jason wreck havoc on Camp Crystal Lake as Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter comes your way. This may say that it is the final chapter, but it is not the last.
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Summary: It's better the first time.
Review: "The Final Chapter" my..umm...eye. Friday 4 is more of the same, except that this one has Corey Feldman in it. Whopdie doo, right. Well, actually he isn't too bad in this one. It also has some of the best gore since the series began. Jason seems to be really upset in this one, there is no mercy in his butchery this time. We also get to see his face (have you noticed it looked defferent in every movie?). This was my favorite for a long time, and then I saw Part 2. It is still one of the better ones, and I can recomend it...
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Summary: BEST,"FRIDAY THE 13TH" !
Review: "FRIDAY THE 13TH 4:THE FINAL CHAPTER",IS THE BEST AND SCARIEST "FRIDAY THE 13TH" THERE IS AND EVER WILL BE.I LOVED JASON'S DEATH SCENE IT HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST "SUPPOSED" DEATH SCENE IN ALL OF THE "FRIDAY THE 13TH" FILMS.EVEN THOUGH IT IS OBVIOUSE THAT "PARAMOUNT" WAS TRYING TO CASH IN ON THE SUCCES OF THE FIRST THREE "FRIDAY THE 13TH'S",THIS ONE HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE BEST HORROR FLICKS I'VE EVER SEEN.THIS FILM IS A MUST FOR ALL HORROR FILM FANS ,AND THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE HORROR MAY NOT ENJOY IT.
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Summary: An entertaining slasher that goes back to its roots.
Review: "The Final Chapter" (a meaningless title), not to be confused with "The Final Friday" (the last film to date), finally returns the series to its original roots. Not exactly original, and technically just a rehash of the first three movies, but very entertaining, including a very threatening killer, which is a complete turnaround when you consider Jason's lumbering appearance in Parts 2 and III.With "Final Chapter", Jason escapes from a hospital and marks a path of blood on his way back to his home habitat, Crystal Lake. Waiting for him are foolish teenagers who plan to spend a weekend partying and having premarital sex, and the Jarvis family, which features Corey Feldman as the protagonist, Tommy Jarvis. The idea of having a strong hero that you can route for this time around (other than Jason, who's supposed to be the bad guy), works surprisingly well, especially when you consider that he's a twelve-year-old boy. The humor pervading this film comes off as complete entertainment. And the greatest aspect of this fourth installment is the realization that Jason no longer fools around. The gruesome deaths are twice as graphic as they were in the past, and the make-up, done by returning artist Tom Savini, who provided the make-up effects for the original film, does an outstanding job. Had this been indeed the final chapter, it would've been a great way to end the series. Needless to say, its many sequels, while they go off in several new directions, are just as entertaining, and represent the Jason Voorhees that fans have come to know and love. Great for crowds.
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Summary: Great Friday night fun!
Review: "Usually sequels are a poor version of the original, but not in this case. This movie provides everything you want in a horror movie. The body count is particularly high, the 'B' grade sex scenes are also there. The dialogue is particularly lame, which adds to "the appeal of this genre." Funny dancing scenes, shockingly scary jumps and humorous corny one-liners makes this particular Friday chapter one of the most popular with the fans! Don't rent.. buy! Great for parties.
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Summary: could be worse
Review: ...And so the Friday series rumbled on to this the fourth part of a nine part series (so
far). While it would never win an Oscar it is not a bad film when compared with
others in the series. Saying that though it is still an extremely derivative slasher film.
The director Joseph Zito is competent, but is no John Carpenter or even Sean
Cunnigham.
The film opens with a montage of images from the previous films in the series. They
are Friday the 13th (1980), Friday the 13th Part Two (1981) and Friday the 13th in
3D (19820 respectively. There is then the main body of the movie. In it after Jason
was dispatched by Dana Kimmell via an axe to a forehead he is taken to the city
morgue. However it seems that the axe to the forehead was not enough to kill him off
and he revives at the morgue. Once he escapes from the morgue he returns to Crystal
Lake to slaughter some more teens.
The story line on display in the film is not especially new, but it does not really
matter. The makers of the film were appealing to committed gore hounds by now and
they will enjoy it. Like Part Three the only time in which the film rises itself above
the poverty of imagination displayed is in the killing scenes. The gore was done by
the master of the genre Tom Savini (he had previously worked on the original and had
turned down the chance to work on the second). He was apparently lured by the fact
that it was suppose to bring closure to the series. However it seems that there was always plans to continue the series and once it grossed over forty two point six
million dollars it was not surprising that it continued. The film gives plenty of
opportunity for Savini to display his talents. The most memorable killing is probably
when Jason takes off a victim's head with a hacksaw. The gore on display is pretty
strong and this is ironic considering that this was the only Friday film apart from the
first not to suffer any cuts.
The acting on display is merely adequate, but there are a number of future stars on
display in this film. Crispin Glover, who shot to fame a year later with Back to the
Future (1985), makes an appearance as Jimmy who had a hilarious dance routine.
The other future star on display is Corey Feldman who later went on to appear in
Stand By Me (1986) and the vampire movie The Lost Boys (1987). Feldman, shaven
headed, also has a part to play in the denouement. This is because he hacks Jason to
pieces while trying to protect his sister Trish (Kimberly Beck). The only other
character which is worth noting is Paul (Alan Hayes). He has come to Crystal Lake to
try and hunt Jason because he killed his sister. The character development is pretty
perfunctory even for a stalk and slash movie. Indeed a hitchhiker (Bonnie Hellman) is
introduced only to be despatched by Jason moments later. The lighting is pretty lousy
as well which means that it is fairly hard to see the action. This was the last of the
really big grossing Friday movie and the series went down hill after. Followed by a
sequel: Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985).
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Summary: A promising start, but then it's business as usual.
Review: 1.Jason kills people. 2.A lot of teenagers have sex but get killed because they've fornicated and been naughty. 3.The surviving teenaged girl kills Jason. 4.Someone gets thrown through a window. 5.Jason isn't really dead at all. Sorry. I thought this was Friday the 13th by numbers. Oh, there is a slight difference in this one. It's the lone surviving teenaged girl's younger brother who kills Jason! Wow! Crikey! The makers of these films must have spent months of hard work thinking over that one!
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Summary: Solid entry in the Friday The 13th franchise...
Review: After helming the incredibly violent and sadistic slasher film, The Prowler, director Joseph Zito once again teamed with special effects wiz Tom Savini(Dawn Of The Dead, Maniac) to deliver what is without a doubt the most competent and atmospheric entry in the Friday The 13th series.
The film opens with the remains of the presumed dead Jason Voorhees being transported to a nearby hospital. When a little casual sex between morgue employees riles the Crystal Lake maniac back to life much carnage ensues in the stereotypical Friday The 13th tradition. The hockey masked psycho promptly escapes from the morgue and sets his murderous attentions upon a group of charismatic and likeable teens who have rented a home in the isolated wilderness for a bit of rest and relaxation, alcohol overindulgence and pre-marital nookie.
The greatest aspect of this Friday The 13th film is the cast-instead of the usual wooden actors, Zito chose to recruit a fine young cast which includes Corey Feldman(The Lost Boys), Peter Barton(Hell Night), Lawrence Monoson(The Last American Virgin) and Crispin Glover(Back To The Future, Willard). The dialogue is unusually crisp and interesting, in particular the chemistry between Monoson and Glover is very humorous.
Zito, who apparently understood his target audience flawlessly, wisely chose to up the gore and nudity quotient considerably. With the possible exception of Part V, this is the goriest and most violent of the films. The effects by Savini are wonderful, and much superior to the crappy and cheap looking effects of Part III. The briefly unmasked Jason is very horrific and the climax is particularly cringe worthy and realistic.
The film benefits also from a fast and lively pace that prevents the usual tedium found in many slasher films(He Knows You're Alone) from setting in.
My only gripe is the bare bones presentation of the film found on this DVD. Zito and Savini teamed up for a fantastic commentary track for the aforementioned The Prowler DVD from Blue Underground, why a commentary track was not supplied for this above average film is a mystery. Also, truth be told, the video quality is quite grainy in spots and many scenes seem to be much too dark, I do not recall this problem being apparent in my VHS copy.
In closing, despite the DVD's shortcomings and faults, this is one of the better films to emerge from the late seventies and eighties slasher craze. While not as original or pioneering as Black Christmas, Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it is still recommended viewing for horror and slasher fans.
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Summary: "The Final Chapter" of Jason Voorhees
Review: After regaining conciousness at a hospital morgue, serial killer Jason Voorhees makes his way back to Camp Crystal Lake. This movie has got to be one of--or maybe THE--most violent movie in the "Friday the 13th" series. Following the tradition set by its previous sequels, the murder scenes are very graphic. But, unlike its previous--and following--sequels, there are two scenes with double the amount graphic violence. For example, in one scene, we see Crispin Glover's (you might recall him as George McFly from the "Back to the Future" movies) character get stabbed in the hand with a corkscrew--here's the first graphic violence; he is then whacked in the face with a machete--here's the second graphic violence. In the other sequels, we only see one graphic violence per murder scene. The acting of the film's cast is average. Some of it is rather funny (to me, at least) and some of the dialogue is funny too. Among the cast, look for a very young Corey Fieldman--he made his film debut in this movie. Lots people like the ending to this movie. I can see why; there was a very intense scene attached to it. Many people say the film makers lied to the public by calling this movie "The Final Chapter"; if this really was "The Final Chapter", the movie should've stopped in this installment. Actually, there was a reason to this film being named "The Final Chapter". Origninally, Jason was no longer going to be the killer after this movie. Therefore, this movie was "The Final Chapter" of Jason's reign as a serial killer; however, fans demanded that Jason be brought back, and that's what Paramount Pictures did.
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Summary: "Final Chapter"....Shyeah, Right!!
Review: After the ax grinding conclusion to "Friday the 13th Part 3-D", you would think Jason would finally take things lying down, but "Paramount Studios" had plenty of milk left to squeeze out of this franchise's teet. After being taken to the County Morgue, Jason wakes up pretty grumpy & decides to let the coroner & his nurse girlfriend know about it by killing them both. After that, well,.... after that... Jason is lost! After he figures out where he's headed (I'm sure he has a compass w/ him but, if you listen closely you can still here him moanin' & groanin') Jason starts the long trek back home, but gets sidetracked when he encounters a group of teenagers partying at a house they've rented for the weekend. If you've seen the first three "Friday" films you know old hockeypuck tries to make friends & fit in. It's all peace & love... not! Keep an out for Crispin Glover (the Creepy Thin Man from the "Charlie's Angels" films, as well as, in real life) & a pre-Michael Jackson victim / "Goonies", Corey Feldman as Tommy, the boy who is cut above Jason. As for the DVD release of the film, "Paramount Home Video" drops the ball again w/ 2.0 Dolby Digital, & no special features except for a trailer (not a special feature, retards).
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