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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

   
Directed by: Joseph Zito

Written by:
Barney Cohen & Carol Watson

Story by:
Bruce Hidemi Sakow

Starring:

Kimberly Beck ... Trish Jarvis
Erich Anderson ... Rob Dire
Corey Feldman ... Tommy Jarvis
Barbara Howard ... Sara
Peter Barton ... Doug
Lawrence Monoson ... Ted
Joan Freeman ... Mrs. Jarvis
Crispin Glover ... Jimmy
Alan Hayes ... Paul
Judie Aronson ... Samantha
Camilla More ... Tina
Carey More ... Terri
Ted White ... Jason Voorhees



Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 1984

*Images courtesy at:
www.outnow.ch

 

Rating:

 

Jason is sent to a mortuary where the people there think he's dead after he was whacked in the head with an axe. Boy are they ever wrong!
He kills two of the coroners there and then returns to his home at Crystal Lake.
Jason goes to a lodge at Crystal Lake and kills a bunch of other teens staying there.
One of them named Rob Dire (Erich Anderson) tries to hunt Jason down after killing a family member of his after hearing the news about the two people in the hospital being slayed and is convinced that Jason is returning back to his home and plans to kill him.
A family named the Jarvis' and their friends party out at the lodge and Jason crashes the party killing each of them in many gruesome ways.

 

No new twists here which I found this to be the worst of the series.
However, many admired it which I could never understand why as nothing special was added to this dumb sequel.
They promised this would be the last but are we in for a big surprise a year later.

Most of the cast here were known actors probably cause it was promised to be the last one.
Most of them seemed to do well but certain one's like cult actress Kimberly Beck lacked a little but I always found that she was cast mainly for her looks. However she seems quite energetic in some spots of the film.
We have a very young Corey Feldman who is great as a typical mischievieous little kid and brings alot to the film.
Crispin Glover does well at playing a dorky teenager and has often been typecast playing those roles in future films that way cause he's so good at portraying one.
Lawrence Monoson does very well as a flirtatious and horny teen and is a true character in this film.
Joan Freeman made a very believeable mother in the film.
Barbara Howard is not a believeable actress and just has the good looks.
Real life twin sisters Camilla and Carey More stand out the most in this films playing twins in the film as well.

Teenagers are skinny dipping in a lake and one of them played by Judie Aronson strips down fully naked before diving in. Also, there's a butt shot on Lawrence Monoson while running into the lake too.
Judie Aronson
takes off her top and is fully breasted during a late night swim in the lake.
There are nude women on an old B&W porn film the teens are watching in the cabin.

Jason saws a coroner's neck and then twists his head with blood gushing out
A knife goes through a hitchhikers neck
A girl gets stabbed through her back while lying on a blown up raft in the lake.
A guy is stabbed by some sort of a sharp poll that's used for fishing equipment
Another teen is bloodily stabbed with a machette during a rain storm.
A corkscrew is stabbed in a guy's hand and then a machette sliced in his face.
A guys face is crushed while taking a shower
A girl is whacked in the chest with an axe.
A knife is stabbed by the back of a guy's neck
Jason's head is stabbed with his machette

The directing by Joseph Zito is not too bad but not up for an Oscar.
He did put together a great beginning of the film from the archive footage from the last 3 films bring the story alltogether with a campfire story from part 2 performed by John Furey.
We have a perfect setting at the Crystal Lake farmland from part 3 with a helicopter, police cars and the cast members playing coroners and police officers at night time.
There's chills when Ted White who plays the role of Jason drops his hand a couple times lying on the stretcher when people thinks that he's dead as you know he's going to awaken and go on a killing spree.
However when Jason does come in for the kill on Lisa Freeman's chracter he does not make her death scene at all believeable and it's extremely cheesy.
He also made the dialogue sequences between Cripin Glover and Lawrence Monoson look extremely stale when they are in a car on their way to Crystal lake.
He does show a nice camera shot on Bonnie Hellman who plays a hitchhiker while eating a banana and Jason stabbing her through the neck and it looks extremely disturbing and intense.
We also have a nice shot on Kimberly Beck as she looks shocked while her friends are skinny dipping and tries to prevent Corey Feldman's character to watch what's going on.
We have good worried actions on Barbara Howard after realising that her friend hasn't come up from swimming under the water.
There's a nice dialogue sequence between Feldman and Erich Anderson as Feldman's character shows him his room with his masks he's created.
We have a perfect shot on Judie Aronson swimming in the lake with fog to a blown up raft late at night and yet something terrifying is about to happen.
He directed Joan Freeman well when she leaves her lodge in the rainstorm and realises it's too quiet when she calls for her pet dog.
There's perfect shocking energy between Beck and Anderson after Anderson's character slices through his tent and then realising it's her inside of it.
Barbara Howard is not believeable after she discovers her dead boyfriend when she freaks out.
There's a great shot of White as Jason smashing through a window and grabbing Feldman's character.
A scene with Beck (Or a stunt double) smashing through a window and falling to the ground needed improvement as you can tells the ground had some sort of a mattress underneath as she bounced.
He directed Beck well at being menacing toward White as Jason
Feldman
is great with his performance with his battle between White's character as Jason and it stands out well. Probably Zito's best direction ever.

The music was composed by once again Harry Manfredini as he uses the same old elemnts he did from the first film which does work still at times and uses some new suspenseful violin playing.
As well as a good rockin' songtrack by 80's rock groups
"Tangerine" by Johnny Mercer & Victor Scherzinger
"Stella by Starlight" by Ned Washington & Victor Young
"To Each his Own" by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"Love is a Lie" by Lion.

Sheriff: [on TV news] Yes, the man responsible for the murders in Wessex County this past week is at this moment in the Wessex County Medical Center.
Axel: [to Jason's body] Hey, that's you they're talking about on TV, pal.

Axel: [Nurse Morgan starts to leave] Hey, hey. Where you going?
Nurse Morgan: I'll tell you where I'm going! I'm going crazy!

Axel: [Jason's hand falls on Axel and Nurse Morgan] Jesus Christmas! Holy Jesus goddamn! Holy Jesus jumping Christmas shit!

Axel: You got the curse?
Nurse Morgan: If I do, you're it!

Nurse Morgan: [lights click off] Get lost, Axel. I'm busy. I've had more than enough of you for one night.
[pause]
Nurse Morgan: Read my lips, leave me alONE! AAH!
[Jason grabs her, props her against a wall, and guts her with a scalpel]

Jimmy: He thinks that's funny. He thinks that's a funny thing he's doing.

Jimmy: Ted. I think... I think when we get to town I should call Betty.
Ted: Jimbo, calling Betty is definitely a dead fuck thing to do. Look, first rule of love: never get rejected by the same girl twice, I mean that's useless. If you want to make a fool out of yourself, always do it with someone new.
Jimmy: I don't know anyone new.
Ted: Well, sex is a great way to meet them.

Ted: [to Jimmy] You're a dead fuck.

Ted: And Jimbo, don't be such a dead fuck.
Jimmy: I told you... I told you that I didn't like that.

Ted: Let me put this into the ol' computer.
Jimmy: Ted, I'm serious about this.
Ted: Hey, the computer don't lie.

Sara: I'm going upstairs.
Doug: Are you tired?
Sara: No.
[pause]
Sara: Do you want to sleep in the bottom bunk?
Doug: Do you want to sleep in the top bunk?
Sara: No.

Tommy: [after watching the teens skinny-dipping] Some pack of patootsies, huh?
Trish: Tommy.

Jimmy: Hey, Ted, where's that corkscrew? You know, that fancy corkscrew for the wine bottle? Ted. Ted? Ted! Hey, Ted, where the hell is the corkscrew?
[Jason shoves it into Jimbo's hand]

Rob Dire: Help. He's killing me. He's killing me.

Mrs. Jarvis: Someone left the front door open again.
Tommy: We're in the country.
Mrs. Jarvis: Well, what happens if the psycho wanders in?
Trish: Probably challenge him to a game of Zaxxon.

Trish: [in the house with Jason] Tommy! Tommy, get the hell outta here!
[Jason appears. Trish then holds him off with the machete]
Trish: You son of a bitch! I'll give ya something to remember us by.