This is the film that deserves more love than what it gets because what we have here is one of the better slasher remakes of recent year. Yes, some of the characters are some the most dislikeable and hated in horror history and yes, the sex scenes are borderline porno.
But honestly, who cares? Because this film dared to mix it up and take chances. Turning Jason into a survivalist who runs after his victims is a great change of pace. On top of that, the kills are brutal and sometimes satisfying to behold. This is a remake that cared about the source material and tried to honor the franchises legacy instead of just cashing in on a brand name.
Horror fans deserve it. This is the film that introduced Kane Hodder as Jason and he would go on to define what it means to play an iconic slasher. Jason versus Telepath Tina is the best third act in the franchise and one of the best third acts of any horror movie out there. So many amazing, gory kills were cut down and tamed to the point of having no blood at all. Hopefully one day someone is able to restore the lost gore footage because outside of that, this is a fantastic entry to this franchise!
Better characters, amazing kills, perfect pacing and tighter editing makes for a sequel that surpasses the original in every facet.
Friday the 13th Part 2 is endlessly rewatchable and well executed with care and craftsmanship. Definitely one of the better entries. You knew Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover were going to be stars just by their screen presence in this film.
They are memorable, fun and interesting characters that you can relate to. By Corey Feldman being an iconic child actor and Crispin Glover being the best awkward nerd he can be, they end up adding so much humanity to this amazing sequel. Almost every character who bites the dust gets a memorable kill to go along with it. Kane Hodder delivers one of his best performances as Jason while delivering probably the best kills in the franchise.
The liquid nitrogen face freeze? This movie has machine gun wielding Androids, Jason coming back to life as a cyborg, catchy one-liners and an overall sense of joy and pure entertaining fun. What more could you want??? Could there have been another contender for number one?
It has the best consistency with the kills, the best characters, the best tonal balance of humor and horror and every joke hits its mark. I will give them a little credit for trying something totally wild, though. The opening alone is SO over-the-top he's ambushed by a bunch of FBI agents that I legitimately thought it was a dream sequence. It's not. The rest of the movie follows Jason's soul?!
There's also a bounty hunter with a magical dagger who claims to know the only way to kill Jason, which apparently involves a blood relative Jason does eventually get "taken to hell," so I guess they delivered on the promise of the title. And I did like the fun cameo from Freddy Krueger's gloved hand at the end apparently this was supposed to set up the Freddy vs. Jason movie, but that got sidelined until , but overall this movie is messy AF. This is Movie 12 in the series and also an attempted reboot.
Honestly, the first 15 minutes of this movie had me. I was like, wow, this has everything you'd expect out of a Friday the 13th movie. But from here on out, the movie really drags its feet. It's a long time before anything interesting happens again, and I found myself just not caring about what was happening to the "main" characters. Jason is also inexplicably fast he runs , agile he apparently knows how to use a bow and arrow , and clever he literally sets booby traps , which is fun to watch when he makes his kills, but feels weirdly off for the character.
This film does a decent job of incorporating elements of the first four originals we see Jason get his burlap sack mask, and then his hockey mask for example , although none of it really makes sense. For a reboot, this movie really didn't bring much to the table other than some bad s haircuts.
This is Movie 7 in the series and features a girl with telekinetic powers who inadvertently brings Jason back to life. It's basically Jason vs. There are some creative kills in this movie shoutout to slamming a person inside of a sleeping bag against a tree , but for the most part the storyline around this one is very run-of-the-mill: good-looking people party, have sex, skinny dip, and get killed.
I think the thing that really throws this one off for me is the telekinetic girl's storyline. It's just so out of place and made me ask, "Why? This is Movie 8 in the series and, sorry to disappoint you, but it mostly takes place on a boat, despite what the title says. Jason really only spends like the last 20 minutes of the movie in Manhattan. Jason is also able to inexplicably teleport in this movie, and the main character weirdly has sporadic visions of Jason as a child.
It's a horror comedy, at worst, and while that's beyond the pale for some fans who want their horror to be scary, it could be argued that Friday the 13th stopped meaning to scare audiences after part four. Jason Takes Manhattan is not the best by any stretch of the imagination, but it's entertaining, funny, ridiculous, and has some of the most unique kills in the franchise, which is really where the films earn their weight in gold.
It can be argued that this film should have been the logical end of Friday the 13th , but Jason prevails. Some franchises have suffered horribly for blasting off into space, but not Friday the 13th. Jason X is another of the series goofier installments, but it introduced fans to Uber Jason , which was a gift all its own. If considering unique, experimental kills that show the true brutality of Jason, look no further than this installment, as Jason trades his machete for kills such as smashing a woman's face on a table after dousing her in liquid nitrogen.
Kane Hodder returns for his final appearance as Jason in this movie, which means it holds a special place to some fans who are fond of the actor as well. Related: Freddy Vs. Jason , and it mostly delivered. The story was a little thin in places, and the battle between Jason and Freddy could have been longer, and had a resolution that wasn't really just a cleverly shot stalemate, but the best of both franchises made an appearance in this film.
Even though Kane Hodder didn't end up playing Jason , as many fans wanted him to, given his long-term friendship with Robert Englund Freddy , Ken Kirzinger brought strength and endurance to the role and did a decent job as Jason.
It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was fun, and the Friday the 13th franchise is at its best when it's fun. Though it might be hard to look past some of the aspects of the film that were obviously meant to be in 3D, as this was the trend of the times, Part 3 is actually a very rewarding film in the franchise, on the whole.
The kills are incredible - some of the franchise's very best - the story is clean and sensible, Jason is exactly what fans expect, it's still a little scary, and it sees Jason don the hockey mask for the very first time. It also has a clear ending, which could be partially because the producers of the franchise considered ending Friday the 13th after this part, which would have been tragic, but might have made sense given the direction it took afterwards with some of the biggest lows overall.
One of the best facets about Part Two is that it takes no prisoners and leaves nothing left behind. It's quick and dirty, and that's part of why it's so great. The kills are brutal, Jason is in top form, it follows the original part so nicely that they can be watched seamlessly back-to-back in marathons. Simply put, it fits, and does everything that is meant to be seen as a highlight of the Friday the 13th franchise very well.
Even so, it's a sequel, and those typically suffer a bit when compared directly to their predecessor, and this one suffers from that as well. While some of the larger, more enduring horror franchises see their first installment commonly on the top of ranked lists no matter how many movies come afterward, Friday the 13th 's original entry misses the mark just by a hair. It has its merits which are solid , the franchise wouldn't exist if it had failed, and there are enough interesting tidbits about the making of the film to keep any fan interested in so much more than the movie itself.
It was so hated by critics after releasing that Gene Siskel tried to sink it and encouraged people to write Betsy Palmer Pamela hate mail for making this movie. However, Jason's mother deserves respect, and fans came out to see the original in droves, and thank goodness they did.
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