Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives

 

        

        Ladies and gentlemen, the impossible has happened just when all hope seemed lost and was almost close to giving up along comes a one true slasher film that is a trillion times, ah hell a zillion times better than Friday the 13th 1-5. Jason Lives is the Friday the 13th movie that everyone deserved but not the one movie everyone deserved to see. And yet this was the movie that established the lore of Jason Voorhees, moreover, took six movies to realize that we need to make Jason into a walking corpse. Which feels like the development of Friday the 13th film feels like the writers, producers and directors had no clue on what to do with the character of Jason and yet with this movie they found a winning formula and yet took six movies to happen. Though with this movie producers at least learned from their mistakes.

        Years ago, Tommy Jarvis (Thom Matthews) killed infamous hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees (C.J. Graham), and the intensity of the experience has landed him in a mental institution. To end his torment and achieve a level of closure, Tommy escapes from the hospital and heads to the graveyard where Jason is buried, intending to dig up the body and cremate it. But, before this total annihilation can occur, a freak electrical accident resurrects Jason from the dead, and the terror begins anew.

        Like the Nightmare movies where the odds are better movies than the even films, the fourth film and the sixth film in my logic are the best ones out of the Friday the 13th franchise and I can give the second film at least some credit because there are some interesting and intriguing storylines when it comes to creating the lore but the odds are strangely the worst ones out of the franchise, and I'm not trying to slam to much of the first movie because it was trying to be a Halloween movie but adding a lot of shock and gore so, in all fairness I would certainly recommend watching the first movie out of the sense of what it was trying to be and then the rest of the series was just trying to find it's grasp but at times shooting itself in the foot with the horrendous 3-D effects to not including him in the fifth movie. Basically after the fifth installment's release sure it was successful but everyone didn't like it all because of the fact that this was a copycat killer and Jason wasn't in the movie and so, the producers decided out of the best interests of the fans that they would go back to basics and director of Jason Lives, Tom McLoughlin wanted make the film more like a gothic horror from the old Universal studio monsters for which really out of all the directors that made the Friday the 13th films, Sean Cunningham and Tom Mcloughlin were the only ones to have a true enough vision to at least make these movies a real movie and that's the most effective complement I can give out of the entire franchise. Like the first and second film I can say watch those if you want to have a more experience Friday the 13th movie watching experience because you get to see a more humanized version of Jason the same with the fourth film in a strange sense because as of right now I stopping the Jason movie bash till next October so as of right now you can always watch those films I can recommend those films and the greatest Jason movie of all time, Jason X. The thing personally in what makes the sixth film great is that you have a Tommy Jarvis character that makes more sense than the fifth movie despite he wasn't talking much and suffering from PTSD and towards the end becomes a killer, which is fine? But, at the end of the day it the ending that I really don't want as an audience member because I'm trying to get out of lamest trend of stupid teens making piss poor choices and with four and sixth movie these are at least compelling because you have a character that wants to have closure and has the chance to redeem himself and more importantly you have kids in the movie so, really makes the suspense worthwhile and you feel more for the human characters than just wanting to watch Jason kill everyone and have a great time seeing it just like in Jason X. When it comes to the month of October with the Halloween season coming up I never thought in a million years I would go on this bizarre journey of eighties slasher movies, with their franchises sequels and really they're a treat in itself, granted the movies are at times a bit boring but I watched three Friday the 13th movies in a row and went to bed at a decent time which in all fairness is a better way at getting some sleep then trying to watch the Lord of the Rings, Extended Edition in a row for which I'm way too old to dive into that idea of wanting to do for a bucket list. Either way, the Nightmare movies and the Jason movies all together are a treat to watch you'll learn a lot of things from them granted their not perfect but you get some fresh ideas with each of the movie's when you watch them and their all under 90 minutes so you can finish two movies at a time and still have a good time watching them. But deep down I haven't finished all the Jason movies, the same with the Nightmare films but I'm going to wait till next season of Halloween for an opportunity complete them, and for good reasons when you finally found a good and decent movie you have to close the book mark on a chapter in your life and at least feel good about them almost like Michael Jordan winning game sixth of the NBA Finals despite the fact he was tired of dealing with management. So, in conclusion, if you want to have a great Jason Voorhees experience, I highly recommend watching the first two Friday the 13th movies to get a good grasp on the Crystal Lake lore and proceed to watch Friday the 13th, four and six to complete your closure of experiencing the whole aspect of Friday the 13th. But more importantly also watch Jason X because if you want to know what's the GOAT out of all the Jason movie franchise Jason X is the greatest one of all, though the sixth film is a winner in my book.