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Second Best Slasher Film Ever
Being a big fan of the Friday the 13th movies since I was a kid I have to admit I was having nightmares of Jason for a while. The scene from the 1st movie at the end where Jason jumps out of the lake onto the girls boat made me shreek like a girl(man I'm sexist). Maybe the fact that I was about six didn't hurt but it's still one of the scariest scenes I've ever watched. Years later I watched it again but I found that it wasn't the best of the series at all. As many others have pointed out this series is unique in that some of the sequels are actually better than the original.

This movie starts with a classic run down of Jason's killing sprees to date as told at a campfire. Jason's body is picked up from the barn where he was "killed" in the last movie and taken to the morgue. Of course he isn't dead and after a couple hospital workers are killed he goes back to Crystal Lake. In this one is victims are a small family and another group of horny teens taking a vacation so they can be help build up the kill count.

This in my opinion is Jason at his best. Many Jason fans believe Kane Hodder to be the best Jason but I believe Ted White pulls off the most realistic and scary ever. Kane Hodder brought a more comicy and unstoppable feel to Jason. I consider them to be almost two different Jason's. He's not super powerful in this one. He's just a big as hell guy with some sharp objecks and a hockey mask. I also enjoyed how he actually ran after one of his victims in this one. He might have in earlier films in the series but I know he never did after this one. The acting was also the best yet in the series with some great casting choices. The killings are varied so you get a bit of everything. You even get to see Jason without the hockey mask. Tommy's sister was pretty impressive at the end not playing the usual victim girl. Not many of us would go at it mano y mano with Jason Voorhees. Jason's kill scene is also the best one in the series and honestly the best kill scene of any slasher film I know of. Tom Savini's make up job was incredible.

This movie is one I'm going to keep in my collection forever right next to Halloween. That by the way is the best slasher film, in my opinion at least, but its sequels could never even come close. Many have said that Jason was a copy of Michael Myers but I would have to disagree. Myers may have been behind some of the inspiration but Jason is a character unique unto himself. I always liked to think of Myers as more of an urban slasher while Jason more rural. Another difference in the series was the acting. Many of the early Friday the 13th's suffer from terrible acting and many times you'll find yourself cheering for Jason to put an end to them. I rarely found myself cheering for Myers in the Halloween's. You'll notice if you watch movies from both series that they both steal from each other but I like to think of this as a good thing. Two slasher movies that took the best scenes from each other and added on too them was a positive thing for this genre.

So here's my final call. Halloween the best slasher film ever. Friday the 13th the best slasher series ever. For more good Jason movies I would check out Friday the 13th part 6. If your looking for another good slasher check out Madman. Email me if you know of some other sweet slashers I may be interested in.

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Finally a good sequel for Friday the 13th
Chapter four was the best sequel of Friday the 13th series since it began.The original was very good and impressive, Part 2 was stupid and boring(The only good thing was that the killer was Jason).Part 3 was better, but still dumb(But we got the hockey mask).

After Part 3 murders, Jason is taken to the morgue.Of course he's not dead.So he scapes and goes back to Camp Cristal Lake.Near the camp, lives a family: The Jarvis.
And across te Jarvis, lives a group of teenagers trying to have fun.Guess what is going to happen?, YES, Jason is going to kill them.

What I really enjoyed here, was the creative and original deads.They were funny and scary at the same time.In my opinion the best dead was Axel's, the morgue doctor.But Tina's was cool too, it was very well done.

The main character was Trish, a nice girl.Her brother Tommy, was a horror fan, he made his own scary halloween masks and liked blood.

This is not the final chapter as it's called.We still got 6 more sequels to go.But this was one of the best.

FINAL GRADE: C+

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Oh no, not... doggy defenestration!
Sigh... if only this truly WAS the final chapter. After goin' through the first three films and seein' pretty much the same stuff each time, you'd think I'd have taken the hint by now and not get my hopes up about seeing anything all that new in the next installment. Just like the last three go-rounds, ya see the killer take out an entire group of horny, pot-abusing teenagers (with a few adults thrown in for good measure). Then there's the wide array of dispatchings, most of which are pretty gruesome but score higher on my gross-out meter than on my fright-o-meter. The only thing I found all that scary-- granted you take the rise and fall of this person's movie career following this-- is a pre-teen Corey Feldman as a sorta geeky messed-up kid who gets even more messed-up by the time the closing credits roll. Er, messed up in a psychological sense that is. Also kinda disquieting is the performance of lovable oddball Crispin Glover, who goes almost totally against type by playing a kinda normal ill-fated teenager. Corey & Crispin add a level of scariness to the 'Final Chapter' (*snicker*) that ol' Jason could never even come close to approaching...

On the upside, this booger does feature the silliest Jason-kill I've ever seen when he tosses a pooch through a second-story window of a lakeside house. Now I'm not into animal torture and all that, but after seein' that moment I couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh. Talk about hittin' a whole new low...

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