Login'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off.
People have cited 'Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives' as one of the best of the 'Friday the 13th' films. Having re-watched it since saying in my review for the fourth film that 'The Final Chapter' should have been the last, actually the film was much better on re-watch. While far from perfect, it is agreed that it is one of the series' better ones, perhaps the best since the second film and the best post-'The Final Chapter' instalment. Wouldn't go as far to say it's the very best though.
Starting with the strengths, 'Jason Lives' starts off incredibly well. The opening is creepy and there is also a witty James Bond parody credits sequence that one does not expect in a 'Friday the 13th' film. It is a highly atmospheric and stylish film visually, while not having the great effects and make-up work of the previous film 'Jason Lives' is still one of the best looking films in the series. The music is suitably haunting.
'Jason Lives' surprisingly is one of the better acted 'Friday the 13th' films and has some characters one cares for (especially Tommy) when they are not making illogical or stupid decisions. Thom Matthews is the most conflicted of the actors playing Tommy, while Jennifer Cooke has allure and CJ Graham has an unnerving presence when he is not made to act goofy.
There are some darkly funny moments, the deaths (not an overload this time like 'A New Beginning') are inventively elaborate, there is some creepiness and the pace generally cracks like a whip, 'Jason Lives' is certainly not dull.
However, the tone of 'Jason Lives' is rather unbalanced. There is too much of an emphasis on the humour, and while there are funny moments others are rather cheesy and stupid. While there is creepiness, the suspense in between is not enough and likewise with the scares, which were also pretty tame this time round.
Namely because there are some unintentionally goofy moments with how people are made to act (including Jason) and the writing-a-whole-novel-worth list of goofs. Some of the pacing is rushed, especially towards the end. The dialogue continues to evoke a constant feel of toe-curling cringe.
Overall, a resurrection worth checking out. 6/10 Bethany Cox
Jason Voorhees rises again
Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago on 3 March 2022 12:34
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives review
Posted : 3 years, 1 month ago on 3 April 2021 01:41
The acting in this film is pretty good despite being used for a shitty slasher film especially the actors playing Tommy and Jason. Either than that, just another standard slasher film. Luckily, the kills are more entertaining than the plot
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Jason Lives!!
Posted : 14 years, 9 months ago on 29 July 2009 07:52
After the 5th episode from the Friday the 13th series, Jason is still alive as the killer doning the famous hockey mask was actually the father to one of the boys in the home; the boy that was murdered. Now, on a mission to find Jason's body and make sure it's dead, Tommy Jarvis actually brings him back to life and there goes the nieghborhood! Playing the role of Jason Voorhees was C.J. Graham, and he took his fair share of lives; hacking the most kills in a Friday movie yet! some of the deaths felt like fillers, like the three deaths in one stroke at the paintball part of the movie, they could have dragged that out into three different scenes of dismemeberment; but had to show the pure strength Jason now posseses. Overall, it was one of my favorite Friday films; and like every other in the series has a song in it that I can't get out of my head. Every time that Animal song comes on my ipod (yes i dowloaded it along with almost every other song) I think of the time the girl's head gets SMASHED into the steel backing of it and shapes the wall along side it. The only thing i wasn't a fan of was the underwater death scene to end Jason's reign of death in this film; I'm a much bigger fan of when he gets destroyed somehow by the hands of a blade or something that causes blood and scar tissue. Yum.
Lizabeth: I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
Lizabeth: I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
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