That was an excellent one.

best movie i've ever seen.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

So I rewatched the uncut version of this as a comedy and actually had a good time, pretty funny, and form-wise it isn't as bad as I initially thought.The uncut version is actually worth tracking down imo. There hasn't been an uncut BR release yet, so you'll only be able to find it on DVD or some streaming platforms. The runtimes are listed on imdb for those interested in doing so. There's also a helpful movie-censorship dot com comparison.Perhaps much of my dismay to it on first-watch, was the fact that I had just watched Part VIII, so getting another turd would have been frustrating after the abomination of Jason Takes Manhattan.The Crystal Lake Memories docu gave it some more context too.Anyway, this is definitely a guilty pleasure/good-bad for me now.

As with most good horror films the original Friday The 13th was bound to be doomed by endless sequels, remakes, reboots and all the works.Since watching the original many years ago I have been lured by its dark charm and followed the rest of the franchise with hopes of seeing, at least for once, a sequel that stayed true to the premise of its predecessor and not go off on a wild tangent. Sad to say they just went from worse to disastrous. In Jason Goes to Hell we're once again brought to the attention of the mythic Jason Voorhees and his blood-soaked, shadow-filled habitat. The plot's pretty much a carbon copy of the previous ones- naked girls taking the mandatory shower, light bulbs going out, teens having sex then getting butchered, jump scares every two minutes or so... The difference here is that the score is even worse than the previous one and, to the agonizing logic of any so-called fan, the theme of sorcery has been incorporated (dear god) in attempt to bring something to the exhausted story. This device has another purpose as well. After numerous movies in which we see Jason being shot at, stabbed, decapitated, drowned, etc., we'd come to the conclusion that Jason can't be human because he just keeps coming back, hence the flimsy fantasy element. For me personally this ruined the whole story. I preferred to think of Jason as a deformed, demented survivor living in the woods and taking it out on anyone who enters and disturbs his land. The original was a completely different kind of beast from all that followed. What we see here is another money-maker with no respect for the original whatsoever. I was generous by giving it 4 out of 10 stars...

As this movie begins, an attractive young woman heads to Camp Crystal Lake and is chased by Jason. From this setup, we think this is going to be another by-the-numbers Jason flick. But the movie soon takes a turn into something much more unique (though not completely original).Producer Sean Cunningham, director of the first movie, returns to effectively reboot the series. This is the first after the acquisition of the series from Paramount by New Line and is obviously trying to set up a "Freddy vs. Jason" movie, though that wouldn't happen until a decade later.This movie follows ne'er-do-well Steven as he tries to reconnect with his baby momma, Jessica, who has her own ties to Jason. Steven has to find his inner courage to protect Jessica and their baby from Jason. It's a unique plot with grown-ups, far divorced from the silly teen flicks that preceded it.

If there's one thing that can and should be said in defense of "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday", it's this......this is one bold, gutsy move for the franchise! Completely subversive and joyously disparate when placed in comparison to the previous eight films. A bizarre, red-headed-stepchild with a strange and sharp leaning towards the overly fantastical and blatantly magical. Taking what had been to that point an increasingly repetitious series, and attempting to inject some fresh blood for what was at the time considered to be the one... last... film to cap it all off.Is is a success? Well, I'd say for the most part, fans do consider it a failure because it strayed so much from the formula in trying to establish a grandiose finale. And I think I would probably consider it to be a bit of a failure for that very same reason. But it's definitely a fascinating and daring failure. One that I can get behind. Especially after the increasing monotony of the previous two films. Sue me, but I'll take an interesting failure that attempts to shake up the formula over a bland retread any day of the week!Jason Voorhees has finally been killed. After an FBI Sting Operation blows his body to smithereens, the town of Crystal Lake is finally able to settle down, knowing the figment that has haunted them for so many years is finally gone.Or is he?Nope! As it turns out, Jason has become something more than human, and his evil has given him the ability to possess others through some sort of relatively-unexplained magical means. Now, Jason is coming back to seek vengeance, taking the forms of various characters through body-swapping, intent on locating surviving members of the family, so that he may be reborn again through them in his original form. Now, his only living relative (Kari Keegan), her ex (John D. LeMay) and a bounty hunter who knows the truth about Jason (Steven Williams) must team up to stop him once and for all!Look, this movie's ridiculous. It's completely out of left-field. It doesn't really connect properly with the previous films. Its storyline is just bizarre. And it's a completely different beast tonally from any of the other flicks......but it's a lot of fun!Director Adam Marcus and writers Jay Huguely and Dean Lorey seem to have a ton of ideas on how to exploit this ridiculous concept, and are given free reign to just go crazy. There's a little something for everyone here. From a touch of the self-aware laughs that made "Jason Lives" so enjoyable, to some wild and whacked-out imagery (you won't look at a straight-razor the same way again!) to some good old-fashioned kills that harken back to the first couple of movies, this film aims to deliver a roller-coaster ride from Hell... and it does deliver on that promise.Add to that some likable performances, fun and inventive kinetic camera-work that knows how to make the best of it's lowish budget, weirdly entertaining humor and plenty of gore to go around... and it produces a film that I find to be a decent bit of dumb-fun.This movie is stupid. Beyond belief. And it doesn't feel anything like the previous eight outtings. But I'm OK with that. It's got a lot of insane-o concepts and ideas to play with, it knows exactly what it wants to be, and it's got some fiendishly creative minds at it's helm. It's a failure... but an entertaining and wildly ambitious failure that I can't help but root for.So I'm giving it a middle of the road 5 out of 10. If you're a fan of the franchise and are open minded, give it a shot. You might be one of the proud few who really enjoys this off-the-rails nutcase- of-a- flick.