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Movie Reviews of Jason Goes to Hell
Movie Review: Friday the 13th: Part IX: Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Summary: 4 Stars
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Really? From now on there will be 6 days in a week and 4 days in a school week???....Sweeeet.
In the opening scene, it not only re-captures the original suspense of the first, but also puts a new spin on it. Why is this so? Sean S. Cunningham. The creator of the original came to produce this film. No, he wasn't the director like the trailer says, he was producer. All I can say is, he must HAVE BEEN PISSED when they made Jason X. Unless he knew about the Freddy vs. Jason conspiracy, which we will DEFINABLY finally talk about. I've been wanting to unload this $#!T for so long on today's pop culture. (Yeah, I'm talking to you Jake.) But what am I doing about a film that was released...10 years later? Let's get on the review.
Jason's appearance is cool, and more freaky then the classic Jason, but is also kind of wrestler like. I don't care though, I like it. Just saying some of you might not like it. The appearance of Jason that is. Oh, and did I forget? Wasn't Part 8 the end of Jason? Well...this sort of ignores a good amount of Friday the 13th continuity for the sake of current story. And according to this, each film could have had a different...*SPOILERS* a different body for Jason, as well as even different bodies throughout one film. Although the second prospect is highly unlikely. *SPOILERS OVER.*
The people got really creative, I commend the script writers for breaking so many rules of Friday the 13th, and instead creating something completely new. Specifically, I'm talking about the close to opening scene where the dude eats Jason's heart. Crazy Bat $#!T. Also, because they broke enough rules, they were able to explain exactly what is Jason...and more. Much, much more is left to the brain. But more to talk about that later. Not to mention, the gore is friggin' sweet in this film. We got people cut in half (while having $3X may I add), we get people getting necks smashed in cars, it's all crazy fun. I sometimes wonder if I even should be watching this stuff though.
Now, it's time for MOER SPANIARDS *gets slapped in the face by a Spanish English teacher.* Sorry. *SPOILERS...WELL NOT REALLY* There is a scene where the main character reads The Book of the Dead in the Voorhees house. Again: A MOVIE THAT HAS JASON, THE BOOK OF THE DEAD AND *gets slapped in the face by George Bush.* Hey, hey, I will say so later. *SPOILERS...WELL NOT REALLY OVER.* I'm getting slapped a lot today ain't I? The music is friggin sweet...that's just it. The music is sweet. I will say the only real negative is that the final feels very loosely written. While creative, it's not quite so tight. I suspect a college graduate with Aspergers wrote this...which I don't mind at all. It's awesome.
Some scenes do repeat though. Which can make it someone boring. But who cares. The rest of the movie is awesome. It's like going through a dream, really. It's very surreal. (Don't all New Line Jason films feel like that?...In fact, don't most New Line films feel like that?) Now, time to talk about the ending. There is controversy surrounding it, and it is a double ending, but I think they pulled it off pretty well. Some aspects are distracting, but it's a very great climax for what the situation was up to that point. It was FREAKING AMAZING...for what they had to work with.
But now...it's time we talk about the Freddy vs. Jason conspiracy. I'm just gonna say right now, that I'm gonna give it a rating right here, and the rest will have spoilers. So, the rating? For a slasher film, it actually does fair decently. 3/5 in the slasher aspect. Storytelling is so awesome, 5/5. So it averages to 4/5 (same as Manhattan? Is there a reason?)
Time for some history. The original was based off a book, I already told you that. Let's get to some facts.
1981- Two films released that year are Friday the 13th: Part 2 (which was a cash grab to continue the series) and The Evil Dead.
2007 through 2008 - The comic series of Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash is released.
1984- Two films released that year are Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and A Nightmare on Elm Street. This is interesting because it is the beginning of Freddy and the "end" of Jason.
1985-Two films released that year are Friday the 13th: Part V: A New Beginning and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's revenge. This is interesting because it is the "vengeance" of the main villain in each film. Also, 2 takes place five years after the first one, even though it was made just a year later. Same with Part 2 of Friday the 13th.
1987 - A film released this year is A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors. It took an extra year to make this, as with the next film. Not to mention, Evil Dead II was released, the number resembles the number of years that did not have a FT13TH film in the 80's. Not to mention, on September 11th of this year, by NEW WORLD PICTURES, Hellrasier was released. (Compare to New Line Cinema and New World Order for 9/11.)
1988 - Friday the 13th: Part VII: The New Blood. This film involves a psychic, and NOES 3 suggests people who can control dreams. (Though I haven't seen it.) Also, NOES has followed English/Arabic numbers so far. Then, ANOES Part 4: The Dream Warrior was released. Again suggesting a single person with special abilities to fight the villain. And again, Hellbound: Hellraiser II was released. Suggesting a single person as the subject this time.
Two years after Jason Takes Manhatten (1989) (the number of years that did not see a FT13TH film in the 80's) they release ANOES: Freddy's Dead which resembles Jason Takes Manhatten, and another film that would take the extra years to make 4 and 7...this film.
In 1992 Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth was released. This movie was in between the "ending" movies of the NOES and FT13TH franchises. Hell on Earth suggests the end of Earth. The tag line states "What started in Hell ends on Earth."
And whaddya know? At the end, Freddy's hand comes out of Hell and grabs Jason's mask. Also, Army of Darkness was released the same year, ending the Evil Dead series.
1996- Hellraiser IV: Bloodline was released. The last Hellraiser movie released in theaters. The end of the theatrical Hellraiser films in other words. This was 3 years after Jason Goes to Hell and 5 after Freddy's Dead, the number of movies that were in the Hellraiser series before and after the movie was released.
2000-Hellraiser: Inferno was released. It was the first film to be released strait to video for Hellraiser, and in the first year of the millennium.
2002-The next film and Hellraiser: Hellseeker was released. This will be discussed next.
See any parrallels? This will be discussed more another day.
I, Da Ca$hman signing off.
Movie Review: 3 Stars for the movie itself, 4 Stars for the DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Elizabeth Marcus (Julie Michaels) is being chased through the woods by Jason. Typical Friday The 13th movie, right? Wrong. A bunch of bright lights flash on, startling Jason. The FBI comes out of hiding and shoot Jason numerous times. In fact, Kane Hodder, as Jason, had the most squibs ever on an actor. Jason is then blown to smithereens, causing body parts to go flying. It's a pretty cool opening sequence, but how are they going to finish the movie?
Jason's tattered remains are being examined by a professional. The man is hypnotized by Jason's black heart so much so that he eats it (there's some interesting acting). This brings the spirit of Jason into him. He continues to go from body to body, searching for his living family members (his sister, his niece, and his niece's baby). If he can get one of them to host his spirit, he will be reborn with into his old body, complete with mask and all.
He switches bodies multiple times throughout the movie, which is kind of cool. The downside of this is that there aren't many scenes with Jason as Jason -- that is, Kane Hodder as Jason. This is his third of four times playing Jason in a row. Hodder does have a short appearance as an FBI agent, but he gets killed.
The ending is pretty lame with the 'heart creature' and the giant hands from Hell. However, the sequence right before the credits is very exciting. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but let's just say that there's a very special cameo.
Aside from the cameo I just mentioned, there are some other interesting appearances. The book in the old Voorhees house is the Book Of The Dead from the Evil Dead movies. Additionally, the dagger used to kill Jason was the same daggeer used in Evil Dead. This didn't have anything to do with the movie, but it was cool that they used the same props.
This movie leaves many unanswered questions. Why does a movie titled Jason Goes To Hell never have a scene in Hell? How did Jason come back from the ending of the eighth movie? If the bounty hunter has been chasing Jason for his entire life, why doesn't he show up until the eighth installment? How did he find out how to kill Jason? More importantly, why is he even after Jason? Why was Jason's family never mentioned before this? Oh well, it's a movie. It's bound to have some plot holes.
On the plus side, there is actually some character development here, which most Friday The 13th movies lack. People are actually in relationships and have lives until Jason interrupts.
It was interesting to see how New Line went in a different direction with this film. The didn't do the same 'campers getting killed in the woods' thing, although they did include a few camper deaths in the movie, which was a good idea on their part. Let's face it: people complained about the lack of that, but if they would have done the same old plot again, people would have complained about it being boring and unoriginal.
The DVD is pretty good for this movie. It has some cool special features. One of those is the funny commentary from director Adam Marcus and screenwriter Dean Lorey, both of whom play small roles in the movie. They poke fun and make jokes but also tell interesting facts, so it's entertaining. Other features include alternate scenes from the television version, the original theatrical trailer, and jump to a death. The only thing missing would be a cool 'making of' segment.
The best part about the DVD is that it contains both the R-rated version and an unrated director's cut. The R-rated version is the one you saw in theaters. It shows a lot of deaths off screen. Sure, that adds a sense of mystery, but if you're a gore hound like myself, you'll want to watch the unrated version. It has a lot of bloody deaths that were so bad, they couldn't be shown in theaters. It's much better than the original, in my personal opinion.
It's not the Final Friday, as the title states, but neither was the fourth one, which claimed to be 'The Final Chapter'. They will continue to make movies as long as they can get money out of it. At least this one isn't a bad movie, like the next to come.
Movie Review: Some Glitches, But Still Pretty Good.
Summary: 4 Stars
I know some previous reviewers pointed out some glitches to this 9th chapter. (1. We don't know how Jason came back after the end of Part 8. 2. Jason has a sister in this movie even though in Part 1 his mother said he was an only child. 3. Jason supposedly can only be killed by a certain party, even though we know Tommy Jarvis killed Jason in Part 4.) Well, if you raised these complaints, you were right. But the truth is, if people are willing to pay to see sequels, the industry will do what it has to do to create another chapter, and it really doesn't care about cheating. (Look how "Halloween 4" brought back Michael and Dr. Loomis even though they should have died in a hospital fire. But they cheated because people wanted another chapter.) Giving you a brief rundown of where I stand, I think Part 1 was pretty good; part 2 had it's moments; I didn't much care for Part 3; part 4 had its good points and introduced Tommy Jarvis; part 5 was surprisingly good and focused on the aftermath of survivor Tommy Jarvis; part 6 remains my favorite one for soundtrack, well done scenes, and a surprisingly well written script; part 7 was arguably the most boring and worst chapter; part 8 was slightly better than part 7. Onto the subject at hand. The opening scene gives us something new. We see Jason blown to bits, and we are wondering how even Jason will come back from this. (But since this is the 1st scene we obviously know he will do it somehow.) Good suspense. Soon we learn that Jason has the ability to inhabit other bodies when he (with some nice effects and musical touches) 'borrows' the coroner's body. Jason then continues his killing spree. As Jason does this, we learn that Jason has a surviving sister, niece, and once removed niece. Also, we meet Mr. Duke. Duke explains that Jason has the ability to jump into other bodies, that he knows the way to destroy Jason, and will do so for a price. One interesting thing is that we learn that Jason can't stay in any one body long before he must seek a new one. We are allowed some time to wonder why before Duke gives us the answer. Besides telling us the way Jason can be destroyed, Duke also explains to us that Jason will eventually need to make use of some Voorhees woman to get his own body back. Now I know some people complained that we don't get to see Jason on screen too much, but let's be fair. We all know (possibly through the good acting of the borrowed bodies) who Jason is. 2nd, it offers some new twist in that the other characters don't know at first who Jason is, and in one well drawn scene even we the audience don't know. 3rd, rather than just wondering how many people will get killed before (providing if) Jason is stopped, we are in suspense as to whether Jason will somehow manage to get his own body back. Overall, there is good suspense, some good laughs, decent character development, some new twists, and action that is not so overdone. While Part 6 will always be the best to me, this chapter was surprisingly good.Movie Review: A very different entry of the series!
Summary: 4 Stars
After the events of "Jason Takes Manhattan" as he wasn't really reborn a child at the end of that movie because it was a hallucination, Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) has survived that toxic waste spill he suffered at the end of that movie and heads back to Crystal Lake for more killing. After chasing a young woman (Julie Michaels) in the cabins near the lake, he chases after her as it becomes a setup for the mad undead goalie as he is shot by a SWAT Team then blow up to smithereens leaving only his heart with pieces of his body remain which means the end of Jason Voorhees for good. A coroner doctor (Richard Gant) does an exam on the body as the heart is still beating yet it has a power to hypnotise as he eats it then gets possessed by the spirit of Jason as his power is inside of a Eel-like demon that has been living inside Jason all the time has the power to jump through body to body until he can find a member of his family to be reborn again. A bounty hunter named Duke (Steven Williams) believes he's not dead and knows everything about Jason as that creature's mission is to find Jessica Kimble (Kari Keegan) and her baby who are relatives to Jason. A legend tells that only through the body of a Voorhees can Jason be reborn and only by a Voorhees can he be defeated for all time, Jessica's boyfriend Steve (John D. LaMay of the Friday The 13th TV Series fame) must try to protect her and the child from harm including letting her know that she is the only one to send Jason to hell for eternity.
A quite unusual but different entry of the popular slasher saga of Friday The 13th from director Adam Marcus and producer Sean S. Cunningham. Paramount Pictures gave up on Friday The 13th after Jason Takes Manhattan was a low box-office grosser then gave the rights to Jason to the creator Sean Cunningham then in 1992 after New Line Cinema successfully killed off Freddy Krueger in 1991's Freddy's Dead The Final Nightmare, it seems that Krueger's company New Line Cinema bought the rights to the Friday The 13th franchise to become Jason's new home. Co-starring Billy Green Bush with Steven Culp, this is a new take on Jason Voorhees and gives us the reason why he keeps coming back including his origins on why he keeps being resurrected. This movie does offer some graphic kills like a pole straight through a woman's body then slashed in half and a arm being ripped with the bone showing out, the acting is still not that great and neither is the storyline. This movie is notable for the famous ending featuring a certain clawed villain that sets up for 2003's "Freddy Vs. Jason", all i gotta say that i got to give kudos for New Line doing something different to the series.
This DVD contains both the unrated cut with scenes of gore not shown to avoid NC-17 Rating and theatrical R rated cut with audio commentary, TV Version alternate scenes, jump to a death and Trailer.
Movie Review: JASON GETS GROUNDED IN THIS VERY GORY SEQUEL
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, Well, this is the ninth entry in the Friday the 13th film series and the first film from New Line Cinema, who bought the rights to the film franchise in 1991 after Paramount wanted nothing to do with the film series after the embarrassing Jason Takes Manhattan.This film was made in 1992 and released to the general public on Friday, August 13, 1993. This film was not well advertised at all. I only saw one big poster at a bus shelter and that was it.
I go to see JASON GOES TO HELL and I hated the film at first and made very much fun of it. With JASON X having "Alien Resurrection" written all over it, JASON GOES TO HELL has "The Hidden" written all over it, another film by New Line Cinema. When it comes to a Friday the 13th film, logic just goes out the door. A great thing about this film is that it totally disregards the embarrassing Jason Takes Manhattan (Part 8).
I started to like the film after not seeing it for months, when released as a "Original Directors' Uncut Edition" in 1994 on VHS. With the help of a friend, I am the proud owner of JASON GOES TO HELL on DVD.
Many people were complaining about the film being too dark in the DVD transfer. I saw the film on DVD and some scenes were dark but in my opinion, it didn't detract from watching the film, I thought it added to it in the sense that I was expecting to see dark scenes in the film...The sound was perfect. Watching the film on Widescreen was great as well, for the first time in standard widescreen (1.85:1) format.
Also, the DVD cover is great, the Animated Menu Board was great and better than JASON X and better than the Paramount DVD's. ALso, there is the Theatre Trailer, a Jump to a Death Sequence(s), Deleted Footage from the TV version and Commentary by the writer and director of the film. I listened to the commentary by Dean Lorey (writer) and Adam Marcus (director) and these guys are nuts - but too hilarious. This commentary is one of the better ones I have ever heard on film. Certainly beats the commentary on JASON X, which is way too boring.
JASON GOES TO HELL is in my opinion, the goriest film in the film series. There are Unrated and R-Rated Versions available on the DVD and I wonder which version people will watch ?? There is still missing footage of David's death in Vicky's house as his skull was crushed with teeth knocked out in the bathroom sink - I wonder if New LIne still has that footage in their vaults ??
In closing, JASON GOES TO HELL despite its little detractions in story is one of the better film in the series and this DVD was well worth the wait. A must have for fans of the series.
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