Friday the 13th Part 6
Friday the 13th Part 6 veers from the tone of the other movies and is more like a supernatural Gothic movie than a slasher movie. It could be reasonably argued that it is the first movie in which Jason is an undead fiend, not having died in the previous movies: he only slept for a time. There is no disputing however that Jason is quite dead in Part 6. His appears as a rotted corpse, and his strength has grown exponentially and will continue to grow as the movies progress.
Part 6 dismisses the entirety of Part 5, although it has the same opening only this time it’s Tommy and a friend digging up Jason rather than two random buffoons. Once they reach his casket – oddly enough, there is not vault to his grave, which would have ended the who affair – they pry it open to burn him down. Tommy, however, has a fit and impales Jason with a spike from the cemetery gate; lighting hits the spike, and Jason is electrified back to life. One of the disappointing things in this movie, for me at least, is that Jason doesn’t go around shooting lighting from his fingers as if he would be if this movie followed the rules of Earnest Goes to Jail.
From there, the movie follows two major plots: one involving Tommy at first trying to convince everyone that Jason is alive and killing again; and another involving yet another summer camp, which is insane beyond the normally stupid expectations of doing the same thing six times and expecting different results. Tommy’s warnings fall on deaf ears, as the Sheriff is in full-bore repression mode and will hear nothing of Jason.
He refuses to believe Tommy, who makes a mad dash to the cemetery to prove that Jason had been dug up. The groundskeeper, however, had re-buried the plot, only with Tommy’s dead friend in the casket instead of Jason, and drunkenly refuses to comply. He also breaks the fourth-wall and is the official turning point from which these movies were somewhat serious to virtual sadistic slapstick.
The camp itself is run by a tight cast this time, including a headbanger, a boy-crazy preppie, the Responsible Girl, the Rebellious Girl, and a hoard of kids it is a damn shame survive the movie collectively unscathed. The Rebellious Girl has a thing for Tommy.
One of the more entertaining scenes occur when a group of CEOs from some business are out in the woods playing paintball. The men are by turns dejected and outraged that a woman is in the lead, one so outraged indeed that he is randomly whacking weeds with a machete while delivering a pre-Twitter MRA rant soon ended when Jason throws him into a tree so hard his head leaves a bloody smiley face. Suck on that, Forrest Gump. The other paintballers are simultaneously decapitated with one blow like something straight out of the goddamned Iliad.
After that, the movie shifts to following Tommy more often than it should, seeing as by now we’ve seen how dark Jason’s sense of humor has gotten and do not sympathize with Tommy’s wanting to take him down. Tommy is run our of town, then comes back and teams up with Rebellious Girl, who gets Tommy supplies he discovered he’d need to kill Jason in a gas-station Occult book. She attempt to outrun the police with Tommy’s head hiding between her legs, saying at one point “Watch out! The next turn’s gonna be hairy!” and I bet in 1986 it was indeed. They’re caught, however, but bust out again by hoodwinking the deputy.
This is probably the most light-hearted, although extremely dark, entry in the series.
Another great kill involves the headbanger and his girlfriend, or whatever. They have sex in the back of an RV. She doesn’t want him to finish until the song they’re listening to ends, which he does because Jason cuts the power off and he finishes immediately after that. The headbanger drives the RV off as his girlfriend is killed in the back, with Jason smashing her face throw a window so hard it leaves an impression on the metal on the opposite wall. He kills the headbanger by stabbing him in the head, which causes the RV to flip and burn.
The Sheriff and his posse arrive at the summer camp, where the kids have been scared to death for a long period of time and with only Responsible Girl to calm them down. Jason kills her by slashing her up so good he literally paints the walls red, then throws her through a window her dead body slouches over, then pulls her back inside and does God knows what with her until the police arrive. I think he was just mad he didn’t get her clear out of the window. Whatever he did, I’m sure it was just perfect.
The police are all killed, the Sheriff most gruesomely: he’s bent over backwards to where his spine snaps with a stupid look on his face. Jason never really gets around to killing the kids when he a chance, which I don’t like, mainly because seeing Jason go all Anikin Skywalker with a machete and throwing kids through this window and that would be a sight worth paying any amount of money for.
Tommy lures Jason into the lake, and after a long struggle puts a chain noose around his neck and sinks him to the bottom. But Jason ain’t defeated yet; Rebellious Girl has to maul hi head with a boat motor for like five minutes before he eventually dies. But doesn’t, because his eyes are open at the end. This is the last movie Tommy will appear in, hopefully having married Rebellious Girl and having untold kinky sex with his collection of horror masks.
Part 6 is another high for the series, and another fan-favorite despite having no nudity. It’s noted for its soundtrack, which included bad a Alice Cooper song if ever there was one. For me, it’s mostly enjoyable because of the dark humor and style, which has a definite Return of the Living Dead vibe going on because they have the same director and star. The only fault is that this movie isn’t as nihilistic as it could be, and seems to be holding back a lot where the other movies went full-on cheese.
I give it four stars.
Friday the 13th Part 6 veers from the tone of the other movies and is more like a supernatural Gothic movie than a slasher movie. It could be reasonably argued that it is the first movie in which Jason is an undead fiend, not having died in the previous movies: he only slept for a time. There is no disputing however that Jason is quite dead in Part 6. His appears as a rotted corpse, and his strength has grown exponentially and will continue to grow as the movies progress.
Part 6 dismisses the entirety of Part 5, although it has the same opening only this time it’s Tommy and a friend digging up Jason rather than two random buffoons. Once they reach his casket – oddly enough, there is not vault to his grave, which would have ended the who affair – they pry it open to burn him down. Tommy, however, has a fit and impales Jason with a spike from the cemetery gate; lighting hits the spike, and Jason is electrified back to life. One of the disappointing things in this movie, for me at least, is that Jason doesn’t go around shooting lighting from his fingers as if he would be if this movie followed the rules of Earnest Goes to Jail.
From there, the movie follows two major plots: one involving Tommy at first trying to convince everyone that Jason is alive and killing again; and another involving yet another summer camp, which is insane beyond the normally stupid expectations of doing the same thing six times and expecting different results. Tommy’s warnings fall on deaf ears, as the Sheriff is in full-bore repression mode and will hear nothing of Jason.
He refuses to believe Tommy, who makes a mad dash to the cemetery to prove that Jason had been dug up. The groundskeeper, however, had re-buried the plot, only with Tommy’s dead friend in the casket instead of Jason, and drunkenly refuses to comply. He also breaks the fourth-wall and is the official turning point from which these movies were somewhat serious to virtual sadistic slapstick.
The camp itself is run by a tight cast this time, including a headbanger, a boy-crazy preppie, the Responsible Girl, the Rebellious Girl, and a hoard of kids it is a damn shame survive the movie collectively unscathed. The Rebellious Girl has a thing for Tommy.
One of the more entertaining scenes occur when a group of CEOs from some business are out in the woods playing paintball. The men are by turns dejected and outraged that a woman is in the lead, one so outraged indeed that he is randomly whacking weeds with a machete while delivering a pre-Twitter MRA rant soon ended when Jason throws him into a tree so hard his head leaves a bloody smiley face. Suck on that, Forrest Gump. The other paintballers are simultaneously decapitated with one blow like something straight out of the goddamned Iliad.
After that, the movie shifts to following Tommy more often than it should, seeing as by now we’ve seen how dark Jason’s sense of humor has gotten and do not sympathize with Tommy’s wanting to take him down. Tommy is run our of town, then comes back and teams up with Rebellious Girl, who gets Tommy supplies he discovered he’d need to kill Jason in a gas-station Occult book. She attempt to outrun the police with Tommy’s head hiding between her legs, saying at one point “Watch out! The next turn’s gonna be hairy!” and I bet in 1986 it was indeed. They’re caught, however, but bust out again by hoodwinking the deputy.
This is probably the most light-hearted, although extremely dark, entry in the series.
Another great kill involves the headbanger and his girlfriend, or whatever. They have sex in the back of an RV. She doesn’t want him to finish until the song they’re listening to ends, which he does because Jason cuts the power off and he finishes immediately after that. The headbanger drives the RV off as his girlfriend is killed in the back, with Jason smashing her face throw a window so hard it leaves an impression on the metal on the opposite wall. He kills the headbanger by stabbing him in the head, which causes the RV to flip and burn.
The Sheriff and his posse arrive at the summer camp, where the kids have been scared to death for a long period of time and with only Responsible Girl to calm them down. Jason kills her by slashing her up so good he literally paints the walls red, then throws her through a window her dead body slouches over, then pulls her back inside and does God knows what with her until the police arrive. I think he was just mad he didn’t get her clear out of the window. Whatever he did, I’m sure it was just perfect.
The police are all killed, the Sheriff most gruesomely: he’s bent over backwards to where his spine snaps with a stupid look on his face. Jason never really gets around to killing the kids when he a chance, which I don’t like, mainly because seeing Jason go all Anikin Skywalker with a machete and throwing kids through this window and that would be a sight worth paying any amount of money for.
Tommy lures Jason into the lake, and after a long struggle puts a chain noose around his neck and sinks him to the bottom. But Jason ain’t defeated yet; Rebellious Girl has to maul hi head with a boat motor for like five minutes before he eventually dies. But doesn’t, because his eyes are open at the end. This is the last movie Tommy will appear in, hopefully having married Rebellious Girl and having untold kinky sex with his collection of horror masks.
Part 6 is another high for the series, and another fan-favorite despite having no nudity. It’s noted for its soundtrack, which included bad a Alice Cooper song if ever there was one. For me, it’s mostly enjoyable because of the dark humor and style, which has a definite Return of the Living Dead vibe going on because they have the same director and star. The only fault is that this movie isn’t as nihilistic as it could be, and seems to be holding back a lot where the other movies went full-on cheese.
I give it four stars.