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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
(Slasher) 8********skulls
*Blood* *Very Violent* *Strong Language* *Very Gory* *Sexual Situations* *No Nudity*
1986/Color/87 Min./Paramount Home Video & Paramount Pictures & Terror, Inc./Rated R
Director..........Tom McLoughlin (One Dark Night, Sometimes They Come Back)
Screenplay.....Tom McLoughlin
Music..............Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th, II, III, IV, V, VI)
Producer.........Don Behrns
Executive Producer.....
Special Effects by Martin Becker
Dramatis Personae
Tommy.............Thom Mathews (Return of the Living Dead, & II)
Megan.............Jennifer Cooke (Gimme an "F")
Allen Hawes.....Ron Palillo (Committed, Hellgate, Welcome Back Kotter-TV)
Sheriff Garris....David Kagen
Sissy.................Ren‚ Jones
Paula...............Kerry Noonan
Nikki.................Darcy Demoss (Eden-TV)
Curt..................Tom Fridley
Critique: The pace in this one is better than any of the sequels and the humorous touch is generally quite deft - yes our boy has crossed that threshold to irony. This one boasts songs by Alice Cooper and a return to the kind of importantly timed confrontation that made the first one so good no matter who was doing the dirty work. This movie has an air about it as if to confirm that a more mature Jason (a bonafide star) has come back this time for a lifetime achievement award and leaves the audience misty-eyed at his acquired grace and aplomb in the elegant James Bond beginning. Nice to see Ron Palillo get killed at the beginning. Director Tom McLoughlin deserves a skull for the lesser known One Dark Night, a classic teens-in-a-mausoleum romp.
Plot Summary: oh tommy couldn't just let a sleeping movie monster lie dead. had to wake him up. He heads to Jason's grave with his friend Hos (Ron Palillo aka Arnold Horshack) to cure his paranoia by digging Jason up and either confirm he is dead or make him that way. Lightning rod is a Frankenstein motif that leads to a James bond shoot out of the eye start. Slick. They've changed the name of the area from Crystal Lake to forest green, they've had enough of Jason. Changing the name won't help. Tommy's not completely alone. The sheriff's wife is smitten. Jason stops a couple on the road. When he won't get out of the way, they decide to try to scare him. That won't work. The grave digger thinks that digging up Jason again is a strange idea of entertainment. It works for Paramount. Up shows a couple of paint gun warriors. Jason adds a new variable to the game. The cops were escorting Tom out of town. This area has obviously been affected by the Jason experience. Kids are playing the camp blood card game. Jason is the jack of spades. We go from couple to couple attempting to engage in a sexual situation, but rather having an encounter with Jason. The cops are finally on it. Counselors have been found in pieces. The theory is that Tommy is fixated on the idea that Jason lives and is using his MO. Tommy's calling from Karloff's delicatessen. The humor-horror mix is a difficult one. This one pulls it off with some aplomb. Jason remains pretty horrifying, but the humor works. A little girl is in bed and Jason approaches. When Jason is distracted away, she immediately looks under the bed. That's clearly where the scary things go. Megan breaks Tommy out of jail, and the plan is to lure Jason back into the lake where he originally drowned and put him back where he belongs.
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