Overall rating 4.5/10
If you can’t tell from the title, Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives, marks the return of Jason Voorhees to the franchise. His resurrection is almost as good as Freddy’s from Nightmare on Elm Street 4. Tommy Jarvis, Corey Feldman from IV, also played by random dude in V, is back and played by yet another random dude. He is still plagued by flashbacks and visions of Jason, so he and a weasely sidekick dig up Jason. They manage to accidentally revive him when he’s struck by lightning. The resulting zombie Jason then does what he does best: kill a bunch of people. There is nothing like the classics.
There are an average amount of deaths for a Friday the 13th film, 17, and a surprising amount of adults die in this film. This is also the first time there are actual children at the camp that Jason attacks, though no kids are killed.
In terms of non-whites there is one black female councilor – who we named fake Lisa Turtle due to a vague resemblance to the character from Saved by the Bell. There is also a hilariously contentious sheriff, whose daughter is the final girl. The final girl is immediately, and nonsensically, attached to Tommy – who the sheriff is convinced is delusional because he keeps insisting that Jason is back. This film, like most Friday movies, makes very little sense (seriously are there 24 hour hardware stores?) but it has lots of death and blood. There is a distinct and puzzling lack of nudity in this movie, it just doesn’t seem like a Friday the 13th movie without any boobs.
Continue reading for a list of victims and final girl.
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