Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood  (1988)

A telekinetic girl named Tina Shepard accidentally kills her drunken abusive father at Crystal Lake (Yes, it's changed back to Crystal Lake) and then years later she returns to Crystal Lake with her aggressive shrink Dr. Crews (Terry Kiser) and mother Amanda (Susan Blu) to try and control her powers.
Dr. Crews doesn't treat Tina too well which makes things difficult for her. Plus, there are some next door teenagers preparing for a Birthday surprise party for a friend of theirs named Michael (Bill Butler) but a couple of the teens preparing the party doesn't welcome Tina too well after they meet her as she is considered the weird girl.
She does run into a popular boy there named Nick (Kevin Blair) whom she becomes linked to. He makes her feel more than welcome.
During that night, Tina (Lar Park-Lincoln) is at the dock where Jason (Kane Hodder) was previously chained into the lake and she is thinking of her father. Then, her powers are unleashed during this time and accidentally awakens Jason (Kane Hodder) from the lake hoping to summon her father back. She passes out after seeing what she raised from the lake.
Jason kills a couple of campers sleeping outside in a tent and then he reached Michael and his girlfriend Jane (Staci Greason) while they are trying to arrive down to Crystal Lake by walking there after their vehicle broke down. He slaughtered both of them.
Tina starts seeing images of Jason killing people but then she uses her telekinesis to try and stop Jason.

This was the lowest budget of all the films but still quite good.
Nice sequences spice this film up with the lightning a darkness surrounding Jasons's victims as well as the effects.
I love the introduction to this film which shows clips of the previous sequels narrated by the late Walt Gorney who played Crazy Ralph in the first two films.
I think the producers f**ked up changing the place back to Crystal Lake but maybe the fans requested it as Forest Green from part 6 didn't work.

The acting is in pretty good shape. Lar Park-Lincoln does a nice job as a troubled telekinesis teenage girl and really knows how to portray someone who was disturbed from her past.
Also we have Terry Kiser who was a known name in TV and film and really makes you want to hate him as Tina's scumbag shrink. He's the best actor in this film and the biggest celebrity of them all too and always played interesting chracters in shows. Mainly as villains.
Susan Jennifer Sullivan played a believeable bitch in the film trying to make Tina unwelcome.
We also have some cheesy exploited b-film actresses like former scream queen Elizabeth Kaitan and Heidi Kozak whom I remember her in the Slumber Party Massacre II (We're missing Linnea Quigley which I thought she would be great in a Friday the 13th sequel but oh well). Both seem to breeze through okay. Heidi's role was fairly small though.
We also have two more actors who gained a reputation doing voice over's for animated shows named Susan Blu (Who was awesome as Tina's mother) and Jeff Bennett (Who played a great dorky teen) as you can tell they do well with their dialogue speeches throughout the scene's of this film.
Jon Renfield was very out there with his character as a hunky teenage pothead.

Not as violent as most of the Friday films.
A knife is stabbed in a woman's neck to a tree
Jason's hand goes through a campers chest.
A teens face is sliced open
A guy's head is crushed
A party favor is stabbed inside a guy's eye
A lady is stabbed through her chest
A head is decapitated (But it looks fake)
A throat is slit and the corpse is nailed to a tree

John Carl Buechler is not too bad with his directing for this one and he makes it very watchable with his work involved.
He has great scene shots making Crystal Lake look gloomy like in the previous sequel with great shots of Jason chained up underwater.
There's a perfect shot of child actress Jennifer Banko as the younger Tina in a boat at the lake showing her menacing expressions when she wishes her father dead and then the pier shakes and rattles with water bubbling up.
Buechler knew how to make Lincoln cry on set with her frightened and troubled emotions.
There's a great shot of her standing on the pier and wishing her father would come back which awakens Jason of course. She looked great at fainting after experienncing the shock that it's Jason coming out of the bubbly lake.
Nice shots on Kane Hodder as Jason coming in for the kill and the killings are well choreographed including someone being whacked against a tree in a sleeping bag. (And great scenes on what Lar's character will predict on what Jason will do next) and seems to know what he wanted with most of his actors especially from Lincoln and Blair.
We have a perfect scene with the two alone in the woods with their romantic dialogue.
A perfect scene is when Susan Jennifer Sullivan and Jeff Bennett's character's taunt Lincoln's character and then Sullivan's face looks stunned after a telekinetic moment happens with her pearl necklace. With this scene it looks so good you wished she got what was coming to her.
But, certain direction he did aren't as good like the skinny dipping scene when Hodder comes in for the kill and Heidi Kozak doesn't make much effort of trying to escape in the lake. At first she is great when she scream in terror after witnessing a slaughtering
There's a perfect shocked reaction on Kiser's face after discovering a corpse in the woods during some lightning which looks good.
There's a great intense shrieking reaction involving supporting actress Diana Barrows after she sees a dead corpse in the woods and tries to escape from Jason. You kinda wished she'd survived.
We have a perfect shot of Hodder jumping through a window of a cabin.
But we get a great battle performed by Lincoln and Hodder inside one of the houses as telekinetic girl vs. Jason's evil wrath and it's nonstop action. John also has directed many other low budget horror films as well as writing them.

The music was composed by Harry Manfredini (Naturally) and by Fred Mollin. Alot of the music from part 2 & 6 were used in this one to still have the feel of things during many horrifying sequences and it works incredibly wel along with some banging sounds during the opening and closing credits.

There are also songtracks by pop artists like FM, Eye Eye and Stan Meissner.

Narrator: There's a legend around here. A killer buried, but NOT dead. A curse on Crystal Lake, a death curse. Jason Voorhees' curse. They say he died as a boy, but he keeps coming back. Few have seen him and lived. Some have even tried to stop him. NO ONE can.

Sandra: So what do you think of Nick?
Melissa: [eyeing Nick] Gee, I hadn't noticed.

[Michael and Jane are standing on the side of the road next to a broken down car]
Michael: Piece of shit!
Jane: When's the last time you put oil in that thing?
Michael: Yesterday.

Melissa: [to Tina] Hey, Tina.
[Nick appears wearing a big fat jacket on backwards]
Melissa: This how they wear their jackets back at the mental hospital?
[Tina gets mad and snaps Melissa's pearl necklace with her telekinesis]

Robin: So he says, “Let me see your I.D.” and I'm like, “I left it at home.” And he goes, “You have to go and get it.” So I said, “Okay” and I left.

Tina Shepard: [upon seeing Dr. Crews] Bad news Crews.

Russell: If this is my uncle's house, then why are WE sleeping in the van?
Sandra: Who says we're sleeping?

Russell: When did you first know you loved me?
Sandra: I think it was the first time I saw the enormous size of your great big... wallet.

Maddy: Need a little touch-up-work my ass.

Nick: Melissa, just stay here with us
Melissa: It's not my style
Nick: DON'T GO OUT THERE!
Melissa: [Right before Jason appears at the door and axes her right in the face] FUCK YOU! NO, THE FUCK YOU BOTH!