Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Plot synopsis:
The undead serial killer Jason Voorhees returns to Camp Crystal Lake. An undercover government agent lures Jason into a trap set by the FBI, and several armed men blow him to bits, destroying his body. His remains are sent to a morgue, where a coroner becomes possessed by Jason's spirit after ingesting Jason's putrid heart. Jason, now in the coroner's body, escapes the morgue, leaving a trail of death.
At Crystal Lake, he finds three partying teens. While two of them have sex, Jason kills the third, then the other two. Jason attacks two police officers, killing one and possessing the other. Meanwhile, bounty hunter Creighton Duke discovers only members of Jason's bloodline can truly kill him, and he will return to his normal and near-invincible state if he possesses a member of his family. The only living relatives of Jason are his half-sister Diana Kimble, her daughter Jessica, and Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica and Steven Freeman.
Jason makes his way to Diana's house. Steven bursts in and attacks Jason. Diana is killed and Jason escapes. Steven is falsely accused and arrested for Diana's murder, and meets Duke, who reveals Jessica's relation to Jason. Determined to get to Jessica before Jason does, Steven escapes from jail. Jessica is dating tabloid TV reporter Robert Campbell. Steven goes to the Voorhees house to find evidence to convince Jessica but falls through rotten boards. Robert enters the upstairs room and receives a phone call which reveals that he is attempting to "spice up" his show's ratings by putting emphasis on Jason's return from death, having stolen Diana's body from the morgue for this reason. Jason bursts in and transfers his heart into Robert, while the body he left melts. Jason leaves with Steven in pursuit. Jason attempts to be reborn through Jessica but is disrupted by Steven, who hits him and takes Jessica into his car. Steven stalls Jason by running him over. When he tries to explain the situation to Jessica, she disbelieves him and throws him out of the car. Jessica goes to the police station.
Jason arrives at the police station and kills most of the officers. He nearly possesses Jessica before Steven stops him; Jessica realizes Steven is right. In the chaos, Duke makes his escape. Jessica and Steven make their way to the diner to grab the baby. Jason arrives but is attacked by the owners of the shop. He kills the owners but is injured by waitress Vicki, who shoots him with a shotgun then impales him with an iron rod, but then impales her on the same rod before crushing her head, killing her. Jason is presumably killed, and Jessica and Steven discover a note from Duke, telling them that he has the baby and demands that Jessica meet him at the Voorhees house alone.
Jessica meets Duke at the Voorhees house and is given a mystical dagger which she can use to permanently kill Jason. A police officer enters the diner where Robert, possessed, transfers his heart into him. Duke falls through the floor, and Jessica is confronted by Landis and Randy. Landis is killed accidentally with the dagger, and Jessica drops the dagger. Randy, possessed, attempts to be reborn through Stephanie, but Steven arrives and severs his neck with a machete. Jason's heart, which has grown into a demonic infant, crawls out of Randy's neck to Diana's dead body in the basement. Steven and Jessica pull Duke out of the basement as Jason discovers Diana's body and slithers up her vagina, allowing him to be reborn.
While Steven and Jessica attempt to retrieve the dagger, Duke distracts Jason and is killed with a bear hug. Jason turns his attention to Jessica, and Steven tackles Jason, who both fight outside while Jessica retrieves the dagger. Jason badly brutalizes Steven and when he is about to kill him, Jessica stabs Jason in the chest, releasing the souls Jason accumulated over time. Demonic hands burst out of the ground and pull Jason into the depths of Hell. Steven and Jessica reconcile and walk off into the sunrise with their baby. Later a dog unearths Jason's mask while digging in the dirt. Freddy Krueger's gloved hand bursts out of the dirt and pulls Jason's mask into the ground as Freddy's signature laughter is heard.

Tags: violence, horror, sadist

Review:
"Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" is completely preposterous, out of place and an affront to what had been a dependable horror series.Admittedly, director and co-writer Adam Marcus deserves credit for his boldness.
It essentially breaks the fingers of the hand that feeds it.The failure of "Jason goes to Hell," both in terms of concept and box office revenue, inevitably draws comparisons to the much-panned "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning." That film drew plenty of boos for its Jason-less gimmick, but at least it had the feel of a "Friday" flick.
Like "Part V," it probably would have worked better as a horror film independent of the Jason saga, rather than dragging Mr. Voorhees into a place he has no business being.Clearly, Adam Marcus was wrong.
The failure of this film (and "Jason X" years later) shows that fans want a return to simpler times when horny teens in cabins were afraid to look out their windows.
Now we learn that he can be "reborn" through a blood relative and can possess victims by sending an evil black monster into their bodies (idea stolen from THE HIDDEN).In a touching tribute to the good ol' days of simplicity, overage-looking "teens" make time for skinny-dipping and tent sex before Jason splits the girl in half with a tent stake.
This ninth installment in the endless Friday THE 13TH series features a good cast, but is derivative, annoying, unpleasant and not likely to be the final word in the Jason saga, despite ANOTHER cheat title (remember "The Final Chapter" way back in 1984?).It played theaters in a cut R version (where it flopped), but the unrated "Director's Cut" video and DVD version restores most of the excellent KNB Group gore effects and some nudity, redeeming factors in a low-grade production like this.
FBI agents hunt down and destroy Jason at Crystal Lake - but Jason has the ability to possess other people's bodies and continues his bloodbath.I don't think this would be a favourite of the fans - it is quite corny, Jason doesn't feature a lot in the movie...
It was like the director had watched a couple of John Woo films for the first time half-way through shooting the movie and decides...
While I love this kind of camp, every character, plot and film in this series has largely been interchangeable with the others.Fast forward to 1993 and we have a film that attempts to add innovations like pop horror references to the films Evil Dead and Nightmare on Elm Street without resorting to half-baked comedy (I'm looking at you Freddy).
We have a film that updates Jason's by-now clichéd features to a more sublime grotesque, looking like a serial killer would look if he ignored hygiene for 20 years during his hacking and slashing hayday.The plot makes a marked improvement from "I know they're all gonna die, but how?" to "What the hell could possibly kill Jason?
Although this Film gets a little to Sci Fi, It still has 1)High Body Count, 2)Good looking Teenagers, 3)An Unbeatable Jason Voorhees, and 4) Gore and Violence.
With over 100 bullets in him, and burns over 65% of his body, Jason still can't be stopped.He occupies the body of he coroner (Ricahard Gant) and goes back to Crystal Lake to resume killing, and to find his sister to give him new life.This is certainly a strange one, with Jason occupying bodies as he needs to, and a trip to the Vorhees home to find out about his past.At least I recognized one person in this film.
If there's one thing that can and should be said in defense of "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday", it's this......this is one bold, gutsy move for the franchise!
From a touch of the self-aware laughs that made "Jason Lives" so enjoyable, to some wild and whacked-out imagery (you won't look at a straight-razor the same way again!) to some good old-fashioned kills that harken back to the first couple of movies, this film aims to deliver a roller-coaster ride from Hell...
I also i am the biggest fun of nightmare on elm street and if this new movie is a sequel between Jason and Freddy much better!!!!.
This is an undeniably goofy, tongue-in-cheek horror film full of a few well-played gambles, some good humour (thankfully this installment has it's limits and doesn't go overboard with it like Part 6), and features one of the best out-of-left-field endings since the first Sleepaway Camp.Jason Goes To Hell isn't at the top of my list for the Friday The 13th series, but it's also not at the very bottom either.
And what they did with Predator 2 (Putting the Alien (1979) skull on the trophy case on the Predator ship was the idea of Stephen Hopkins' as a way of showing off all the different species and creatures that the Predators have hunted and killed.) making the fans warm for a collision between aliens and predators (which became through AvP) they did it here also, the hand of Freddy (A Nightmare On Elm Street) pulling Jason's mask into hell.
The body count is enormous (19 guys, 6 women), there's gratuitous female AND male nudity, the gore is strong (I'm surprised this got an R rating) and the movie moves so fast you don't have time to stop and think about how really stupid it is.My favorite sequence has to involve the three horny teenagers that camp out by Crystal Lake.
(By the way, their bit has nothing to do with anything in the rest of the picture) It involves plenty of nude scenes and has the goriest killing ever seen in a major motion picture.The acting is actually pretty good (except for the guy who played Crighton Duke) and there are references to other horror movies like "The Evil Dead", "Creepshow" and "Nightmare on Elm Street".
Never mind for a second that the original concept was a poor man's "whodunnit" thriller that borrows with abandon from superior titles such as Halloween.Ultimately, I think it is Jason fans who make me the most ashamed of the love for slasher and horror films that I had when I was a lad.
Friday The 13th films in particular are noted for this problem.Indeed, the attempt to start a "spirit of Jason invades several bodies" story was a valiant, if poorly executed, attempt to steer the franchise away from being what one TV critic calls "the ultimate in recycling".
Quite frankly, I know I'm not the only one who was bored with Jason getting resurrected for the umpteenth time and hacking up a half-dozen teens with personalities to match their IQs, that in turn match their hat sizes.This is not to say I consider Jason Goes To Hell a good film.
Part 4 was titled "The Final Chapter", and there were more films in the series after that film then there were before it!Well, what can I say about "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday"?
What I mean are various props used from Evil Dead, The Birds, Creepshow and Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy's Glove was one of the cooler things to see in the film).All in all, the story is pretty bad, the acting is far from great, the deaths are ok, the special effects are ok, and the gore-factor is pretty high.
If you are a fan of the Friday the 13th Series, then you might want to give this a look just so you can call yourself a true fan, but otherwise I'd recommend watching something that you'll more likely enjoy.Well, if by some chance you do end up seeing this film, I hope you enjoy it.
Yes it was the same one pretty much time after time, but for horror fans, they were good, gave us what we wanted pretty consistently in the case of Halloween and Friday 13th and this film goes some way to proving the age old saying 'if you have a winning formula, don't mess with it'.
From the first minute of the film right the way through to the last you are left with unanswered questions and leaps of fancy that even horror fans will struggle to come to terms with.The opening scenes sum that up nicely, the tag line, which refers to the writer of the first returning to make the last is one i can only assume meant that the film had been seen by the creator of that tag, he'd agreed with me 100% and felt that the writers had managed to kill off the series more gruesomely with one puerile script that Jason ever managed to pull off with his victims.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is by far the worst instalment of the whole Friday the 13th series.
Some of the characters(there aren't many obnoxious ones in this one, probably why we care when things happen, especially in the last half) are quite likable, including our male lead, and the resident cool black dude of the film, the bounty hunter Creighton Duke(who looks like he's right out of the Wild West), who they use just little enough that he remains really effective.
The film finally took the series away from its bloody routine (as if we've been waiting for it to happen) by making Jason a parasite going from one body to another ("Hidden" anyone?) allowing him to carry on what he does best.
Writers Dean Lorey & Jay Huguely and director Adam Marcus took the series in a different new look.JASON(Kane Hodder) somehow is out of New York and is back at Camp Crystal Lake, only to tracked down and killed by the F.B.I..
Take a look to complete this long series of Jason films or if you want to watch some ultra-violence.
It is a really nice touch, and I do like the changes of his physique.Part nine was also the movie that stirred the horror scene with a possible Jason and Freddy crossover movie, given the ending of "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday"..
It's the camp-like settings of most of the series and the unstoppable malevolent force that is Voorhees -- Jason, his mother, or anyone under his diabolic spell -- that especially sets "Friday the 13th" apart from similar franchises.The first two films are serious in tone with the expected antics of youths on vacation in the woods, but the franchise introduced a campy element with Part III, which pretty much plagues the rest of the series with the exception of maybe IV, VII (maybe VIII) and the reboot in 2009.
Not that I'm complaining much, as these films are only quasi-believable anyway.Released in 1993, "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" is arguably the oddest entry in the series, which isn't much of a surprise since three of the last four installments were departures from the typical Friday formula -- Part V, VII (which features a Carrie-like character) and especially VIII (which switches the setting from Crystal Lake to a cruise ship and the big city).The prologue shows Jason back at Crystal Lake.
Anyway, the opening is excellent and highlighted by one of the most stunning females in the entire series, Julie Michaels as Agent Marcus (which is saying a lot in light of the series having the best line of women of ANY movie franchise, except for Part VII, which was sub-par in this department).Jason winds up in the morgue in Youngstown, Ohio, and the film takes an interesting twist reminiscent of the 80's cult film "The Hidden." Other bizarre additions to the Jason Voohees mythos include a magic sword, a strange "Jason-Finder General" character and the revelation of the only way the monster can be killed and resurrected.
Besides, there are enough typical Friday-isms to please fans of the series, for instance the entire camp sequence and the prologue.Some object on the grounds that Jason is supposedly a misunderstood manchild and this movie changes that.
Face it, although Jason may have been an innocent deformed child at one time, the seed of evil (possibly a demonic spirit) entered into his heart at some point and he increasingly became a hideous infernal monster and you have to give this entry credit for trying to fill in the bones with corpse flesh, whether you accept these revelations or not.Unfortunately the final act goes so over-the-top with the action and horror shenanigans that the movie becomes cartoonish and laughable.
Yes, this is the first Friday 13th/Jason film to be handled by New Line Cinema after Paramount got bored of the franchise due to disappointing Box Office returns and sold it to them.
Borrowing elements from the aforementioned "Halloween" series and "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" -- among others -- this sequel can't help but get bogged down with an abundance of recycled dead-end ideas that are coming completely out of left-field when you consider that this is the ninth entry in the series and we're only just now learning that Jason has a sister and that there is a magic dagger that can kill him and yes, there's a bounty hunter on his tail.Speaking of bounty hunter, Steven Williams plays the role of Creighton Duke with such enthusiasm that he single-handedly lifts the film out of mediocrity.
Be sure to stick it through to the ending for a cameo from another well-known '80s slasher villain, giving way to the inevitable "vs." movie a decade down the line.Bottom line: When it comes to the ninth entry in a horror franchise, you could do much worse than "Jason Goes To Hell.".
If you are prone to revisiting this series in chronological order from time to time (as I am) it all gets really familiar after about the sixth chapter, so in a way JASON GOES TO HELL seems like a much-needed breath of fresh air.
But JASON GOES TO HELL was the first movie made under New Line Cinema, and was written and directed by a 23 year-old film student named Adam Marcus, making his debut film here for better or worse.
Its resulting reputation is wildly divided among followers of Jason Voorhees everywhere.This story is unlike any other Friday flick you've ever seen, even if it borrows elements from other horror movies.
Think of it as Jason hits Big-Time Wrestling.In the end, as you might guess, Jason is hauled down to Hell by the clumsy, groping hands of subterranean demons, with a little help from an old friend at New Line.This is the kind of film that you watch with absolutely no idea whether it is good or bad.
Jason Goes To Hell is not that movie!While technically, this film is Friday The 13th part IX, officially, the series was over due to copyright issues.
Of course, the 'story' and the 'characters' surrounding the central theme of people being gutted with a great big machete isn't up to much, but then again; nobody tunes into this sort of movie for story anyway, and it gives the fans what they want in terms of bloodshed.Jason Goes to Hell was given the subtitle 'The Final Friday', and of course we wern't so lucky due to the release of Jason X and Freddy vs.
One thing I enjoyed about the movie was the tributes to other series', such as finding The Evil Dead's Necronomicon in the basement of the Voorhees' house, and, of course, Freddy's glove at the end of the film.
Presumed dead after an FBI raid, the locals' attempt to move on is affected by Jason Voorhees' return by body-hopping through the various people in town trying to kill off his relatives to ensure his rebirth and forcing them to fend him off to send him back to Hell for good.This one was one of the most underrated and utterly enjoyable entries in the series.
Seriously, THE reason to watch "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" is the tent scene (or whatever it's called).
Instead of making do with the usual formula, which worked mostly well 8 times before, the film comes in with a whole new twist.At the start Jason is blown to bits.
I can watch a movie like Evil Dead 2 and know that the acting is bad, the effects are bad, the plot is stupid...but I LOVE IT ANYWAY!
All I have to say is that "Jason Goes To Hell" ruined he Friday series (story wise) and should never had been made.
Jason Goes to Hell, was a good Horror movie, with some of the most remembered scenes by non fans, and even some fans too, like the pole through the woman in the tent on top of the man, you know what I am talking about!!
Don't get me wrong,I loved this movie.The only problem I had was that it should not of been a sequel to Friday the 13th.It should not of involved Jason in any way.It would of been a good horror/thriller upon itself.A title like "Killing Spirits" or something to that extent would of been better.Bottom Line,this was a great movie,just not a very good sequel..
The Friday the 13th series I felt was one of the worst collection of horror films, but yet it was entertaining to watch.
It should because it not only describes the plot synopsis for Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993), but also a sci-fi movie that starred Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri called The Hidden (1987) in which the evil creature is not of this earth.
JASON GOES TO HELL isn't a bad movie.
But JASON GOES TO HELL is a movie that could have been better if it were developed more.
'Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday' is far from picture, but when I compare it to the ones I have seen (2, 3, 4, parts of 5 and 6, 8) it isn't that awful.The film is far from scary.