Written by Jay Huguely And Adam Marcus And Dean Lorey
Directed by Adam Marcus
Coroner (re Jason): "My professional opinion: this guy's deader than shit. Ha ha ha ha ha. Um, strike that last comment from the record."
With the last movie somewhat being a missed opportunity in the Big Apple, this movie's title made a promise that it straight up didn't really keep either. Yup, another disappointment incoming.
The movie opened with Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) back at Crystal Lake chasing down a young woman (Julie Michaels). Only this time around, it's Jason who's about to be the victim in this scenario as the woman's revealed to be an FBI agent and Jason's flanked down and killed by more agents.
Yup, he's dead. Surely the movie then took an actual trip to Hell to see how Jason would fare. Nope, instead he somehow managed to manipulate a coroner into eating his heart and possessing him instead. Yeah, that's the plot here.
Also after previous movies making references to other family members, Jason suddenly has a half sister named Diana Kimble (Erin Kimble) but she doesn't survive long enough to care about her. However Jason does need to possess a blood relative in order to regain his strength and live again.
That's where Diana's daughter, Jessica (Kari Keegan) factored into things. However for most of this movie, it's largely Jessica's baby daddy Steven (John D. LeMay) and bounty hunter Creighton Duke (Steven Williams) that have a bigger emphasis as characters than Jessica. It doesn't help that both are arguably more interesting than her.
Granted, Jessica does improve towards the third but between a shitty TV reporter boyfriend, Robert (Steven Culp) and being overly hostile towards Steven at first, I found the character somewhat grating. However she's the key to Jason's demise here and does take him out in a relatively cool way.
- The movie set up a crossover with Freddy Krueger that literally wouldn't happen until after we got both Wes Craven's New Nightmare and Jason X.
- Creighton might have had a little too much fun in testing Steven's desperation for information on Jason.
- This was the first film in the series that New Line had the rights to, also explaining the switch up in titles as well.
- Chronology: I'm guessing the 1990s as this was the only film from this franchise released in that decade.
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday has its moments but it's a continuing downward trend of poor movies. The family angle feels a tad too late and compared to other franchises that played with the angle in later movies, it's just poorly handled. Also we should've actually seen Jason in hell.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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