After the disappointing pile of crap that was Friday the 13th Part 5, Jason Voorhees fans should appreciate this return to the real hockey masked killer and his nemesis, Tommy Jarvis.
Tommy, who viciously slaughtered Jason Voorhees as a little boy in Part 4, is now an emotionally troubled and very angry young man, played by Thom Mathews (who also appeared in one of my favorite zombie films The Return of the Living Dead). Tommy has been plagued by bad memories and nightmares ever since his slaying of Jason and so decides to trek out to Crystal Lake with his buddy Hawes (aka Horshak) to finish Jason off once and for all. After digging up Jason's grave and opening the cobwebby and maggoty coffin, Tommy goes ballistic, stabbing Jason's dead body with an iron spike ripped off of the cemetery fence. Unfortunately, Tommy has extraordinarily bad timing: a lightening storm descends over the cemetery and one convenient lightening bolt later, Jason is alive and well and is ripping Hawes's heart out of his chest with his bare hands. Tommy is then off and running, trying to warn the local sheriff of Jason's resurrection, but the sheriff dismisses Tommy as a nutcase and later believes that the young man is responsible for the new string of bloody murders. However, the sheriffs pretty blond daughter believes Tommy and decides to help him, breaking him out of prison and hunting Jason down...but not before Jason can decapitate a bunch of yuppie paint-balling executives, slaughter an annoying fornicating couple in a mobile home, slaughter two camp counselors at the newly re-opened Camp Forest Green and terrorize a little girl. Can Tommy finish what he foolishly began and kill Jason before he and his new girlfriend are killed themselves?
This, along with part 7 and 8, are my favorite sequels in the Friday the 13th series. Thom Mathews is great as the haunted and ultimately very foolish Tommy. C. J. Graham is satisfyingly brutal as Jason Voorhees, displaying all the right qualities of rage, curiosity and dumb innocence that Kane Hodder would later improve upon. This is a somewhat spoofy, darkly funny and satisfyingly bloody installment in the prolific series. The opening sequence, featuring Jason's maggot-ridden corpse, is perhaps the best pre-credit sequence of any of the Friday films yet.
Hardcore Friday fans should not miss this 6th sequel. 8 out of 10 stars for Jason Lives!
Tommy, who viciously slaughtered Jason Voorhees as a little boy in Part 4, is now an emotionally troubled and very angry young man, played by Thom Mathews (who also appeared in one of my favorite zombie films The Return of the Living Dead). Tommy has been plagued by bad memories and nightmares ever since his slaying of Jason and so decides to trek out to Crystal Lake with his buddy Hawes (aka Horshak) to finish Jason off once and for all. After digging up Jason's grave and opening the cobwebby and maggoty coffin, Tommy goes ballistic, stabbing Jason's dead body with an iron spike ripped off of the cemetery fence. Unfortunately, Tommy has extraordinarily bad timing: a lightening storm descends over the cemetery and one convenient lightening bolt later, Jason is alive and well and is ripping Hawes's heart out of his chest with his bare hands. Tommy is then off and running, trying to warn the local sheriff of Jason's resurrection, but the sheriff dismisses Tommy as a nutcase and later believes that the young man is responsible for the new string of bloody murders. However, the sheriffs pretty blond daughter believes Tommy and decides to help him, breaking him out of prison and hunting Jason down...but not before Jason can decapitate a bunch of yuppie paint-balling executives, slaughter an annoying fornicating couple in a mobile home, slaughter two camp counselors at the newly re-opened Camp Forest Green and terrorize a little girl. Can Tommy finish what he foolishly began and kill Jason before he and his new girlfriend are killed themselves?
This, along with part 7 and 8, are my favorite sequels in the Friday the 13th series. Thom Mathews is great as the haunted and ultimately very foolish Tommy. C. J. Graham is satisfyingly brutal as Jason Voorhees, displaying all the right qualities of rage, curiosity and dumb innocence that Kane Hodder would later improve upon. This is a somewhat spoofy, darkly funny and satisfyingly bloody installment in the prolific series. The opening sequence, featuring Jason's maggot-ridden corpse, is perhaps the best pre-credit sequence of any of the Friday films yet.
Hardcore Friday fans should not miss this 6th sequel. 8 out of 10 stars for Jason Lives!