friday the 13th part 6 Jason Lives

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	"This is the best one in the franchise, perhaps even better than the first. This should have been part 5.

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This impressive entry in the popular horror series brings back the relentless killer Jason Voorhees, this time as a supernatural zombie. Tommy Jarvis, now played by Thom Matthews, accidentally resurrects Jason when he impales the killer's corpse with a metal pole during a lightning storm. Numerous murders follow, beginning with Tommy's friend (Ron Palillo) having his heart torn out of his chest by the zombie killer. Implicated in the crimes by a mean-spirited sheriff (David Kagen), Tommy is freed from jail by the sheriff's daughter, spunky Megan (Jennifer Cooke). The cast converges on Camp Crystal Lake, which has been renamed "Camp Forest Green" by superstitious locals, in time for Tommy to send Jason back to the bottom of the lake, if only temporarily. Harry Manfredini's score is among his best, and the makeup by Martin Becker, Gabe Bartalos, R. Chris Biggs, and others is outstanding. Cooke makes an appealing heroine as Megan, although Matthews' Tommy has lost the interesting mental disturbances of previous entries and becomes just another bland hero. Tom McLoughlin's direction is effective, and the film has a memorably funny supporting turn by Bob Larkin as a grumpy drunken caretaker. Alice Cooper sings the title song, "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)." Although no classic, this is a solid horror film with a witty script and engaging characters. Jason would rise again to face a telekinetic teen in the disappointing Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi




 

Mutant Review 
Tagline: Nothing this evil ever dies.
Summary Capsule: Zombie Jason kills a lot of people, but in a sitcom kind of way.


Kyle’s Rating: Oh wait, I’d date this Megan girl!
Kyle’s Review: Jason returns, and he is pissed. Very pissed.
He’s also dead. Very dead.
See, it’s now 1997 and Tommy Jarvis (now played by Thom Matthews) and a fellow once-mentally-unbalanced-but-now-mostly-sane-again friend are out of the asylum, and have dug up Jason’s grave to “send him to hell where he belongs.” This whole exercise is presumably the thirteenth step in Tommy’s healing process or something. So our first glimpse of Jason is him rotting in his coffin, covered in cobwebs and maggots. Tommy wants to burn Jason’s body to ashes to be rid of him once and for all, but like so many picnic-planners he didn’t count on bad weather, and with a Frankenstein-flourish Jason is resurrected, rejuvenated and reunited with his hockey mask and lots of sharp pointy things. Let the gore gush commence!
Part 6 is hugely popular with fans because after the serious brutality of the last two installments, this film injects some much-needed craziness and zaniness into the mix. A character speaks directly to us and chastises us for our choice of entertainment, little kids in potential mortal danger talk about what they would have been if they had grown up, and several camera angles make it disturbingly clear that a female counselor is wearing a Maxi Pad. On the whole the atmosphere is relaxed and functions as a kinder and gentler film about a mass murdering zombie. The studio must have finally clued in that people were watching these things to grin and point as much as gasp and flinch, so they delivered.
We get humor, gore, a high body count, some new weapons for Jason, a long close-up of an American Express card, a better batch of 30 year-old actors playing teenagers, and a glimpse of Crystal Lake the city (now renamed Forrest Green to keep reporters out and tourists in!). We also get actual little kids attending the camp, a surprising first for a series based about camp counselors and camping and stuff. Yes, Part 6 delivers on all of these counts. And more!
The character of Tommy Jarvis returns as the only “kid” (how old is this guy supposed to be? 20? 30? 40? I just don’t know!) who knows Jason is real and on the killpath. In the years since Tommy has been in the psycho clink Crystal Lake has been renamed the aforementioned Forrest Green and it seems the town elders in the “know” about Jason, including the stick-up-the-butt sheriff, have decided to treat Jason Voorhees and his murderous past as an urban legend. You’d think the smarter Forrest Green teenagers would just check out old newspaper clipping for the truth, and why would an urban legend have his own tombstone? But I guess “smarter Forrest Green teenagers” is an oxymoron, eh?
Part 6 is fantastic. You’ve got unstoppable zombie Jason as the badass of the hour, and he is in it to win it and kill a lot of people as he goes along. Part 6 doesn’t get ultra-top credit because the entire cast isn’t as strong as Parts 2 and 3’s, but Matthews is a sturdy hero and the sheriff’s off-limits daughter Megan (Jennifer Cooke) is a great heroine/damsel-in-distress. It’s strange that 6 should be such good entertainment when it feels so much like a sitcom production. I’m serious about this, it’s like this was made-for-television or something, including the look of the film and the “acting” straight out of Crazy Charlie’s Discount School of Acting curriculum. I guess that’s why they toss in a big load of profanity at the beginning, so you’ll remember you’re watching a real movie here.
It isn’t an epic, and you’ll forget all about it three hours after the credits roll. But if you want to see a Friday the 13th movie and the cult anti-hero Jason in all his hockey mask glory, this is what you want. Murders that aren’t too brutal, inane dialogue you can tune out and get the gist of, and nothing that’ll keep you up at night. You don’t even need to have seen any of the other films to understand anything! So why resist any longer, go rent Part 6 and join the slasher bandwagon. JUST DO IT!

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Jason (Graham) comes back as a zombie and heads back home to Crystal Lake, killing dumb characters on the way. When he finally gets there, he realizes that they changed the name of the grounds to Forest Green and that a group of kids have taken residency on his turf. A peeved Jason dusts off the machete and cleans house, Voorhees style. - See more at: http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/reviews/friday-the-13th-part-6-jason-lives#sthash.vwvftQM1.dpu