Sadly Over-hyped

Fantastic!

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is my all time number 3 favorite film of the franchise. It is one of my personal favorite horror movies. This movie is the bomb this movie is the best horror slasher 80's movie in my opinion. They don't make movies like this anymore. I really wish that Hollywood would make movies like this one today. This movie has everything I just love to death from the setting, from the music from the actors just everything it has in here. I love, love, love, love this film so much to death it is in my heart and I will always cherish it. Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.My number third best film. There are Reasons why I love this movie to death and it is my number three film in the franchise. My favorite Jason will always be Ted White and my final girl will be Kimberly Beck as Trish Jarvis, but this movie has action and horror mixed together. I am big fan of this film. It is my number 1 personal horror film in the horror genre. I have this movie on Blu-ray disc and I also have the poster about this movie my girlfriend bought me so much I love it. Tommy Jarvis is the ultimate hero in this movie for me. He saved those kids from Jason, he saved Deputy Rick Cologne from been killed he is alive thanks to Tommy, he saved Megan from Jason she is alive thanks to Tommy. He sacrificed him self by luring Jason in to the lake and chained him with a chainsaw. Tommy remorse when he found out that Jason killed Cort and that girl Nikki. Thom Mathews to me is the only Tommy Jarvis no one else is. I love the scene in which Jason stabs Cort and the Van flips over and you see a huge explosion and Jason stands on the van great practical effect. I love the grave yard opening scene and the resurrection scene with a lightning to Jason. The end with the boat is the best in the film ever. I love the story, the setting the filming locations all the actors and actress in it. I love that young girl Nancy. We have a Nancy from A Nightmare on Elm Street in this movie ha ha. I love the atmosphere the acting, the action everything about this movie. Tom McLoughlin wrote and directed one the best film of all time. Scream and even Supernatural were inspired by this movie. Eric Kripke created two brothers who looked a like Tommy Jarvis with those jeans so yes it was inspired by this movie. I love the songs from Alice Cooper He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask), Teenage Frankenstein, Hard Rock Summer, Animal From Fellon.Tom McLoughlin resurrected Jason Voorhees and he made so damn good job the best film he directed and writing it. I just love it so damn much. Jennifer Cooke was great as Megan Garris and she was likable I love her so damn much in this movie. I love David Kagen as Sheriff Garris he grow on me he gave 100% of him. I love Kerry Noonan as Paula she had the most heart in this movie. I love Tom Fridley as Cort seriously he looks like young Johnny Depp in this movie. Whole cast is serious and does excellent job I love everyone in this movie. I love Bob Larkin as Martin on the graveyard I love his lines "Some folks sure got a strange idea of entertainment." I love the actor so damn much in this movie. I love this movie to death and it is my movie it is a perfect 10, this movie has action and horror it is mixed together and it is my personal favorite Jason favorite personal horror film. We also have Tony Goldwyn and Nancy McLoughlin wife of Tom McLoughlin in this movie excellent. This movie get's my favorite Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval 10/10 the best Friday the 13th slasher movie ever I love it to death. They aren't movies like this one today we don't have them anymore.

'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off.People have cited 'Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives' as one of the best of the 'Friday the 13th' films. Having re-watched it since saying in my review for the fourth film that 'The Final Chapter' should have been the last, actually the film was much better on re-watch. While far from perfect, it is agreed that it is one of the series' better ones, perhaps the best since the second film and the best post-'The Final Chapter' instalment. Wouldn't go as far to say it's the very best though.Starting with the strengths, 'Jason Lives' starts off incredibly well. The opening is creepy and there is also a witty James Bond parody credits sequence that one does not expect in a 'Friday the 13th' film. It is a highly atmospheric and stylish film visually, while not having the great effects and make-up work of the previous film 'Jason Lives' is still one of the best looking films in the series. The music is suitably haunting. 'Jason Lives' surprisingly is one of the better acted 'Friday the 13th' films and has some characters one cares for (especially Tommy) when they are not making illogical or stupid decisions. Thom Matthews is the most conflicted of the actors playing Tommy, while Jennifer Cooke has allure and CJ Graham has an unnerving presence when he is not made to act goofy.There are some darkly funny moments, the deaths (not an overload this time like 'A New Beginning') are inventively elaborate, there is some creepiness and the pace generally cracks like a whip, 'Jason Lives' is certainly not dull. However, the tone of 'Jason Lives' is rather unbalanced. There is too much of an emphasis on the humour, and while there are funny moments others are rather cheesy and stupid. While there is creepiness, the suspense in between is not enough and likewise with the scares, which were also pretty tame this time round.Namely because there are some unintentionally goofy moments with how people are made to act (including Jason) and the writing-a-whole-novel-worth list of goofs. Some of the pacing is rushed, especially towards the end. The dialogue continues to evoke a constant feel of toe-curling cringe.Overall, a resurrection worth checking out. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Tommy Jarvis (Thom "Return of the Living Dead" Mathews) brings Horshack to the graveyard where Jason is buried to destroy his body once and for all. Through an improbably series of events involving an iron fence post and a thunder storm, Jason is resurrected and Horshack bites it. Frankenjason spends the whole movie wandering around and killing folks while Tommy tries to convince a hostile sheriff that Jason is back. This is one lousy film. It's packed with completely inappropriate terrible humour and mostly bloodless kills. I guess some guy shoots Jason with a paintball gun, so there's that.

The weakest edition to the series since Part II. Friday the 13th has always been campy, and the previous installment, A New Beginning, introduced overt comedy to the films. Jason Lives tries to continue with the humor aspect while re-introducing the original killer and Camp Crystal Lake setting, but it just doesn't seem to work this time around. Friday the 13th is fun because it's already humorous, it knows it, but it doesn't bring it to the forefront, more often opting for a nod and a smile as it plays straight into the horror trope. Jason Lives revs the humor from Part V up a notch- into the realm of self referential and meta-humor, anticipating the wave of films that would follow Wes Craven's Scream almost exactly a decade later. But the effort is too weak, never really giving us a strong delivery in that field, always wavering on the edge of the Modern and Post- modern. And it gives us this half-hearted effort in lieu of the traditional elements of the Friday the 13th series- namely a strong atmosphere and baroque set and visual storytelling style. If you're not a completist I doubt you'll have made it this far, and so I doubt you'll be willing to skip, but this is just my two cents- that Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the weakest entry in the series up to this point and if you can bear it, go from Part V to Part VII- both great examples of movies with great atmosphere.