[Once
again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for
the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The
Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the
help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can
pull it off this year.]
*Note: Well, apparently I didn't pull it off. Missed a couple of days because life. Might get caught up, but don't hold your breath*
FRIDAY THE 13TH
PART VI: JASON LIVES will always have a special place in my heart. Not
because it’s particularly good, but because it entered my life at just the
right time and in just the right context to make a lasting impression. The film
had its theatrical release in August of 1986 and would be the very first FRIDAY film I saw in a movie theater.
This was a pretty big deal to teenage me.
As the film opens, Jason Voorhees, the killer in most of the
FRIDAY THE 13TH films has
ostensibly been killed in the laughably titled fourth installment, FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL
CHAPTER. Jason’s killer was a young special effects artist named Tommy
Jarvis (originally played by then 12-year-old Corey Feldman). Tommy then
returned in FRIDAY THE 13TH
PART V: THE NEW BEGINNING. Now living at a group home for mentally unstable
teens, when a Jason impostor starts killing his house mates Tommy once again
takes out the big bad. But in a twist, he seems to become a crazed killer
himself at the film’s conclusion.
