Friday the 13th, Part VII - The New Blood
by John Carl Buechler
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Actor: Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Lar Park-Lincoln, Susan BluDirector: John Carl Buechler
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Running Time: 88 minutes
Published: 2002-09-01
DVD Release Date: 1988-09-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Friday the 13th, Part VII - The New Blood
Movie Review: Jason Meets His Match
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, even I had to admit that when I first saw that Friday The 13th Part VII was coming out at my local theatre I was shocked. Not shocked because they had made another, that was almost to be expected (especially with the ending to Part VI), but that I wasn't even sure what else they could do! Well, needless to say that I was impressed to see an original idea: a young girl with telekinesis to play our young blonde heroine. This movie ended up being my second favorite in the series and gives me exactly what I expect in a Jason film!
It's probably a few years after Tommy Jarvis drowned Jason in the bottom of Crystal Lake and now a young girl named Tina has just seen her father hit her mother one too many times. Tina runs out to the dock and begins to flee in a boat. When her father makes it outside to plead with her to stay, we get to see that Tina is much more than your average child when she uses telekinesis to destroy the dock her father is on and accidentally pin him underwater (next to Jason, of course). We then fast forward to Tina in her early twenties (if you're timelining the Jason series we're near the 22nd century by now) returning to Crystal Lake to finish her therapy and try to be "normal" again. As always happens in this series, the house next door is being rented by a bunch of teenagers and all sorts of parties, sex, drugs, and other naughty behaviors of youth are guaranteed. The very night she arrives Tina attempts to bring her father back and accidentally brings Jason back to life instead! It's only a matter of time before Jason begins to see his woods getting tainted by young kids behaving badly and the killing starts.
This installment had a good dose of everything in my opinion. It had an interesting storyline (far fetched, maybe, but interesting nonetheless), it had some great gory inventive scenes (weed wacker!), and it had plenty of cheesy lines and pointless nudity. The hands down best part of this film has to be the final fifteen minutes. We get a mano-a-mano faceoff between Tina and Jason in plenty of different atmospheres complete with the removal of Jason's mask so we can see just how deformed his hideous mug is at this point!
Terry Kiser (Weekend At Bernie's) makes an appearence as Tina's doctor, Dr. Crews, and although he gives a pretty weak performance, it's still a familiar face. If you were a fan of 80's and 90's "B" films (Vice Academy anyone?) then you should notice Elizabeth Kaitan playing Robin. Lar Park-Lincoln plays the strong willed Tina and although she seems constantly disturbed, does a pretty decent Carrie impression. The most noticed addition is Kane Hodder playing Jason (he plays the role in Parts VII-X), he gives the role such a large presence along with a real expressionistic feel to Jason's movements (yes, it's possible to ACT as Jason!).
The DVD is, again, standard, but ultimately a disappointment in my book. We get the movie in widescreen, we get an upgrade to 5.1 surround sound (yeah!), and we get the trailer. The reason it's a let down is that it is obvious that many scenes in this movie were cut (half of the really good deaths are cut-aways or we don't even see the wounds) and I feel that this would have made for a great unrated edition! Paramount, yet again, claims these were lost scenes, but I don't buy it for a second! This movie was clearly hacked to pieces and if it were completely uncut I'm pretty sure it would be bumped up to number 1 in my book! This movie still has everything I wanted out of a Jason film and should be purchased along with Part IV and VI before any others are even considered!
Summary of Friday the 13th, Part VII - The New Blood
Ever since homicidal maniac Jason Voorhees got trapped in chains at the bottom of Crystal Lake, the nearby summer camp has operated without a hitch . . . without a murder. But one of this season's happy campers has brought along a deadly secret.Tina Shepherd can see the future and levitate objects. Her doctor knows just how dangerous telekinesis can be, but he's out to exploit her, not help her. And now it's too late. Tina has accidentally unchained Jason from his watery grave, and the bloodbath is underway.
Tina's special powers are her only hope for survival. But what chance does a teenage girl have against an axe-wielding maniac?
A philosophical quandary: when we truly get a glimpse behind the mask, do we like what we see? This eternal question is directly addressed in chapter 7 of the famed Friday the 13th gross-out series. Here, indestructible killing machine Jason meets his match in the form of a telekinetic teenage girl. Yes, it's "Carrie Goes Camping," although the young lady with special powers might have picked a better vacation spot than Crystal Lake, which has an awful track record for young blondes in tight jeans. This installment is exactly no better or worse than the previous Jason-o-ramas, with the added bonus of a climax in which the imperturbable Mr. Voorhees actually duels someone with supernatural gifts to rival his own. Yes, he does lose his hockey mask (the heroine mind-wills it to pop off), and the results ain't pretty--but then, neither is the Friday the 13th franchise. --Robert Horton
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