Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives!

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Published on Sunday, 15 February 2009 15:39

Jason, the legendary Hockeymasked slasher has made quite a franchise of himself throughout the years. A pretty good accomplishment considering his main trademark, the hockeymask, was only introduced in the 3rd installment. Most movie franchises have 3 films the most (Godfather, Back to the future, The Omen, RoboCop etc.) so when a movie’s main gimmick (the hockeymask) is introduced after 2 movies it’s quite an achievement that people Can you imagine Freddy without the gloves from day 1? I can’t.

So after reading reviews here about good ol’ Jason’s movies it occured to me that some people do more slashing at his movies then he does in all of his movies together.

Unfair I say, because 9 out of 10 times you get exactly what the people behind the movie promise you: 1,5 hour long halfnaked pot smoking teenagers in the woods who get chopped up by a guy with a machete and a hockeymask (ok, so in part 1 it was his Ms. Voorhees and in part 9 it was a worm) You know what you can expect when you watch a Friday the 13th movie, and still some people review the movies like they were expecting a Usual Suspects!

Well this is the 6th installment in the series which reached a total of 10 movies with the release of Jason X last year. This is one of the better installments I must say. Out with all the seriousness, in with a swift and slick slashermovie featuring ol’ Jason. There are excellent scenes in this one, the paintball-office-nerds- scene being the best one. of course this being a typical slashermovie from the 80’s you can expect the standard typecasting; everybody takes him/herself extremely serious (except for the 1st victims in the Beetle), there’s the standard rebel teenagers who don’t listen to dad, there’s the ignorant local sherrif who doesn’t believe that there is a supernatural serialkiller on the loose, there’s the hero who wastes more time running around warning about the killer then trying to stop him. The only thing it lacks, but what we do expect in a friday-flick, is hot nude teengirls (played by girls who are way in their 20’s of course). That’s too bad, since Jason made it standard that if you do smoke pot and/or have pre-marital sex (although playing strip-poker is enough to get yourself killed) it is kind of a downside that the only sex-scene in the movie is one where the people having sex have all their clothes on and just move silly.

Well, I cab rave about this movie because it brings you the Man with the mask in a high-bodycount-story with a sense of humor. Too bad there were no naked teengirls, but there are plenty of other Friday-installments in which they do get chopped up.

I rate this one 4 out of 5 compared with other Friday the 13th’s

 

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