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Scary Well-Done 6th Installment
Friday the 13th Pt. 6 is one of the better films of the slasher series; there are a number of scenes that are genuinely scary and terrifying. Case and point, the opening "resurrection" of Jason in the storm swept graveyard. After escaping the grave, Jason once agains makes a B-line for Camp Blood on Crystal Lake, where after slashing his way through more nubile young co-eds and assorted townspeople, he confronts his grown up nemisis from Pt. 4 Tommy Jarvis. The real horror of this movie may lie around the use of a couple dozen young children as innocent by-standers in the campgrounds as the gruesome killings occur around them. Although you know there's no way you'll see Jason slice up some 7 yr. olds, the terror that he might is quite real. By this time in the series, the gore-content was extensively diminished, replaced with, unfortunately, far less-graphic scenes. (This is especially true in Pts 7 & 8) For example, you see Jason grab one girl back into the cabin, hear her scream and then tossed from the cabin but never see the actual carnage taking place. I'm sure with the impending release of "Jason X" in 2002, the gore-content will be back up to more acceptable levels. But regardless, for a good scare and quality slasher flick, Pt. 6 is top notch.

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Jason lives; what else is new?
"Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives" is one of the better sequels, it certainly belongs beside Part 2. Shortly after the events in Part 5, Tommy Jarvis and a friend go to dug up Jason's corps and cremate it. But lightning striked the body and gives it life again. So Jason goes on a new murder spree as Tommy tries to convince the local sheriff to help stop Jason. While it's not high art, it really isn't bad either, not even close. There is a subtle bit of humor underlining the movie that kept things light; maybe lighter than they should be in a horror movie. Tom Mcloughlin dose a pretty good job as the tormented man with the Cassandra complex. Jason is now not so much a retarted psychopath anymore as he's more of a zombie this time out. The kills are bloody, but I have a feeling there was a little more that the evil MPAA had cut out. (The MPAA probably did more cutting than Jason did.) So, will you enjoy the movie? If your a slasher fan, then yes. If your an average movie goer, maybe, maybe not.

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'Friday the 13th' enters the self-satire zone...
Uh-oh-- looks like the 'Friday the 13th' franchise decided to take a more comedic turn here, more than likely in response to the darkly humorous mayhem of 'Friday's' greatest rival pop-horror phenomenon, the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series. From the James Bond tribute in the opening credits to the Frankenstein-like reanimation of our fave slasher to the characters spouting some of the hokiest lines I've ever heard uttered in a 'Friday' flick so far, there was no way I was gonna take this load o' celluloid silliness seriously. Especially after our fave psycho's encounter with a group of paintballers. 'Course, I'd pretty much given up on taking any of 'em seriously after Part 2... but this I really Really REALLY can't take seriously! Ya know?

Adding to the cheese factor were the usual array of Jason-kills, many of which were ridiculously over-the-top and just plain unbelievable, I didn't really find 'em all that scary. Somewhat gruesome at times, but nothing all that frightful. Oh yeah, let's not forget the usual staples of Jason takin' out a buncha teenage camp counselors (including a few who invoke the 'Friday' franchise laws of Sex=Death and Pot=Death), And an ending that suggests that, in spite of his apparent 'death', out beloved psycho goalie ain't quite through yet (surprise, surprise)...

All in all, I found this go-round fairly fun to watch for the silly dialogue and overdone Jason shenanigans. So long as it's not taken seriously, it's a more than passable piece of entertainment.

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