Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI

Plot synopsis:
A year has passed since the events of the previous film, and Crystal Lake has been renamed to Forest Green. Tommy Jarvis, still suffering from hallucinations ever since his past encounter with Jason Voorhees, returns with his friend Allen Hawes, hoping to cremate Jason's body and therefore stop his hallucinations. At the cemetery, they dig up Jason's corpse, but seeing it causes Tommy to snap, and he stabs Jason's body with a metal fence post. As he turns his back on Jason, two lightning bolts strike the post and revive Jason, who kills Hawes.
Tommy makes his way to the sheriff's office, where he panics and attempts to grab weapons, but is caught and arrested. His warning that Jason has returned goes unheeded by Sheriff Mike Garris, who is aware of Tommy's mental problems and thinks he is imagining Jason. On the road, camp counselors Darren and Lizbeth get lost looking for the camp and run into Jason, who impales them both with the metal rod that resurrected him. The next morning, Garris' daughter Megan and her friends Sissy, Cort, and Lizbeth's sister Paula ask him to search for Darren and Lizbeth. Tommy warns them about Jason, but as he is now considered an urban legend, they ignore the warnings, though Megan becomes attracted to him. In the woods, Jason happens upon a corporate paintball game; he kills the players for their equipment. During these kills, Jason discovers that he is far stronger than before when he rips off a man's arm without actually meaning to.
At Camp Forest Green, the children arrive, and the teens do their best to run the camp without Darren and Lizbeth. Meanwhile, Garris decides to escort Tommy out of his jurisdiction due to his influence on Megan. Tommy tries to make a run for Jason's grave, but finds that the caretaker had covered it up to deny responsibility for it being dug up, and Hawes' body is buried in its place. Tommy is then escorted out of town. That night, Jason murders the caretaker and a nearby couple who witness the murder. Meanwhile, Cort goes out to have sex with a girl named Nikki, but both are killed by Jason. The sheriff's men find the victims' bodies and Garris immediately implicates Tommy in the murders, believing he has gone insane imagining Jason.
Tommy contacts Megan and convinces her to help him lure Jason back into Crystal Lake. Meanwhile, Jason makes his way to the camp and kills Sissy, then Paula. Meanwhile, Tommy and Megan are pulled over by Garris. Despite Megan's alibi that she was with Tommy, he does not believe him to be innocent and arrests him, then goes to the camp to investigate. As Tommy and Megan develop a ruse to trick the watching deputy and escape, Jason kills Garris and two other deputies when they arrive at the camp.
Jason is about to kill Megan when Tommy calls to him from the lake; apparently remembering his killer, he goes after him instead. Tommy is attacked in a boat in the middle of the lake and ties a boulder around Jason's neck to trap him. Jason fights back, holding Tommy underwater long enough to drown him. Megan rushes out to save him but is nearly killed when Jason grabs her leg; she turns the boat's activated motor around onto Jason's neck, and he releases her. She takes Tommy back to shore and uses CPR to revive him. Tommy says that it is finally over and Jason is home. Under the water, anchored to the bottom of the lake, Jason stares off into the water, awaiting an opportunity to return.

Tags: gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, horror, violence, flashback, insanity, entertaining

Review:
This movie has everything I just love to death from the setting, from the music from the actors just everything it has in here.Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead.
Martin Becker made special effects and he was great I love practical effects in this movie I love good kills.This movie has Jason walking around like a Terminator from the first film we even have a Deputy Colone (Vincent Guastaferro) aiming with Dan Wesson Model 15-VH with a big laser sight on Tommy in which Megan use the gun either.
This movie also has action I forgot to mentioned but it has ton's of action it is great entertaining action horror film.This movie get's my favorite Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval 10/10 the best Friday the 13th slasher movie ever I love it to death.
Still haunted by his killing of the masked maniac two films ago, our hero Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) ventures to Jason Voorhees' grave just to be sure he's really dead.
But with no one ready to believe that Jason is indeed back, it again falls to Tommy to put evil in its place.The "Friday the 13th" series got back on track with this installment following a Jason-less fifth entry that remains a bitter disappointment for many horror buffs.
Jason Lives has an excellent story line that delivers, however, the gore is relatively low at certain times, but McLoughlin never fails to bring it all back with shots of that very very bloody machete of Jason's.This sequel contains many of my favorite death scenes so far in the series.
I thought Thom Mathews was wicked in Return of The Living Dead, and he is just as good playing Tommy Jarvis in this sequel.Especially like the cool Alice Cooper soundtrack at the end, and well, as for Jennifer Cooke, the girl who plays Megan.....she is just gorgeous.
Friday The 13th Part VI:Jason Lives is an excellent and thrilling sequel and is one of the best films in the series that is filled with great atmospheric direction,a good cast and a memorable score and soundtrack.
All of those elements make Jason Lives my favorite movie in the series and a classic in the Friday The 13th franchise.Friday The 13th Part VI:Jason Lives finds Tommy Jarvis(Thom Matthews)is still haunted by the events in part IV and V wants cremate and burn a dead Jason Voorhees(C.J Graham)at his grave site but things go wrong when Jason is brought back from the dead by a bolt of lighting and is ready to kill again at his old stomping ground Camp Crystal lake(renamed Camp Forest Green).
With the help of feisty Camp Counseler Megan Garris (Jennifer),Tommy vows to destroy Jason once and for all.Friday The 13th Part VI:Jason Lives is a brilliant Friday The 13th sequel and is one of the best and better films in the franchise that was my introduction to Friday The 13th and Jason Voorhees and to this day remains my favorite Friday The 13th film.
What makes Jason Lives very entertaining and memorable is the way writer-director Tom McLoughlin approaches the material giving the series a shot in the arm giving fans a movie that is stylish and atmospheric as well as very explosive and thrilling with intensity and fun.
And while Jason Lives has most of the trademarks that are associated with the Friday The 13th series and other Slasher movies there are thing Jason Lives that feels fresh and creative with an energy and pace that never stops until the very end.
Where most characters in Friday The 13ths and other Slasher films are lined up to be killed and slaughtered the main characters in JL are likable and memorable to the point we feel bad for them when things start to go haywire.
The blood and gore are on full display here with Jason doing what he does best and that's sneaking up on his victims and killing them in gory ways with some of the biggest body count in the series and while the blood and gore is light compared to some of the other films in the franchise the red plasma is still there.
There is also great Rock songs in the movie from Alice Cooper(He's Back-The Man Behind The Mask,Teenage Frankenstein,Hard Rock Summer)and Felony(Animal).In final word,if you love the Friday The 13th series,Jason Voorhees,Horror films or Slasher movies in general,I highly suggest you see Friday The 13th Part VI:Jason Lives,an excellent and thrilling sequel that is one of the best films in the franchise.
Tom McLoughlin (he did another favorite of mine, One Dark Night) does an excellent job directing and really piles on the atmosphere (the opening shot of the misty forest is creepy) and Thom Mathews is the best actor to play Tommy because he is very heroic, attempting to save the lives of those around him and trying to kill Jason once and for all.
The music is pretty good, with that Alice Cooper song in the end credits a nice touch.All in all, a solid Friday sequel which knocks the socks of part 5 and entertains fans of the series..
But you can't keep Jason down and he is brought back to life by the force of lightning, wrecking havoc and death to all in his path.There are many memorable death scenes throughout "Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI", and it will more than keep you gorehounds happy.The cast in the sixth movie were well-cast and the actors and actresses did good jobs with their given roles.
It is interesting that "Jason Lives" strictly follows the classic plot structure (which was introduced in the very first part of "Friday the 13th"), but at the same time film manages to incorporate new elements into the basic story.
While most of the other sequels are just cheap recycled stories of the other movies, at least "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" offers something a little fresh in the dulling series.
Thom Mathews from return of the living dead does a spectacular job in the lead role and feels like the natural progression of the adult version of Tommy we saw from the other two films.This volume feels like the scream of the series with many horror nods to other slashers with some pointed out in a big way aka Frankenstein resurrected by lightning and others are subtle like never leaving your credit cards at home.Jason seems more terrifying, stronger and ready to raise heck.
Most range from "bad enough to be good" or "entertaining despite it's flaws" while some titles fall into "just plain bad" territory (A New Beginning, Jason Takes Manhattan and The Final Friday.) But for the most part, this franchise has been surprising competent for the number of films it's put out.
It's ratio of good to bad entries is about 9- 3."Jason Lives" however, is easily the best standalone film of the series.
J. Graham) "mortal" remains to ensure that he never comes back (yeah, right), Tommy and his friend inadvertently wind up actually facilitating the exact opposite of what they intended when a stray lightning bolt strikes the iron prong Tommy impales Jason's body with in a fit of rage, resurrecting the mad slasher for another showdown with promiscuous and/or intoxicated young people.What follows is the best-scripted film in the series up until Jason's future showdown with Freddy Krueger, as he returns to what he does best, procuring himself a machete and inflicting his brutal revenge on just about everyone he meets.
Now Jason is back to his old style by killing people, who are in his way and going back to Camp Forest Green (formerly known as Camp Crystal Lake).Written and Directed by Tom McLoughlin (Date with an Angel, One Dark Night, Sometimes They Came Back) made an surprisingly entertaining sequel to the seemingly endless "Friday the 13th" series.
This one is remember for it's rock songs by Alice Cooper, high body count and an young Tony Goldwyn (Best known for playing villains in high profile films like Ghost, The Last Samurai and The 6th Day) as one of Jason's victims.
Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.My opinion OK this movie is a DEEP sequel and to tell the truth it isn't expected to be Great or even average to that but to my surprise I actually enjoyed this film more so than I did the first.
Although this is the best in the series in my opinion its still just another Friday the 13th sequel there nothing special about at all and to tell the truth it had it shouldn't have ever been made just like all the rest of the F13 films after part 3.
And i,ve been a friend of the Friday films since i could walk and this was the first one i saw and is just as good as the fist four films and in my book this and the whole other parts of the series are my favorite movies of all time.
We go to these movies for one simple thing, to see Jason hack, slash, maim, and dismember as many foolish campers and Crystal Lake locals as is possible to squeeze into 90 minutes.If you are of the ilk who likes this type of film, Jason 6 is among the best of the bunch.
Director Tom McLoughlin got it right here, part 6 of the Friday the 13th series, properly titled "Jason Lives" is a fun movie.
When Jason walks out ala James Bond, you know that the movie isn't going to take itself seriously and lets the audience laugh along with the screams, as it borders parody at times, but keeping with the true spirit of the series.
Hero of the last two movies, Tommy Jarvis, digs up Jason to make sure he's really dead, but a bolt of lightning resurrects him, and he returns to his murderous ways.
& has a huge fan base & this movie JASON LIVES is a huge fan favourite & i TOTALLY understand the love for this entry,it has a great atmosphere it has lots of fun characters & a really cool tough Sheriff Garris who is one of my favourite characters in the series along with CREIGHTON DUKE (Jason goes to hell) & Jason looks very cool & Tommy Jarvis is the best version of his character here,so yeah alot of love for a really special entry.
After the utter bust that was New Beginning the franchise finds its feet again and brings Jason Voorhees back from the dead starting a new chapter in his iconic rise to stardom.Tommy Jarvis returns this time played by Thom Mathews (Who I can't take seriously after Return Of The Living Dead 1 & 2).
Sadly it in no way explains his actions at the end of the last film, you'd think that'd be the first thing they'd address.In a weird opening sequence Jason is resurrected and you guessed it, goes on a killing spree.
Don't Make Fun of Yourself, Jason -- That's My Job. Halfway through this woeful installment in the "Friday the 13th" series, a grave digger, who's discovered that the grave of Jason Voorhees has been dug up (by none other than Tommy Jarvis, being played by yet a third actor), looks squarely at the camera and says, "Some people have a strange idea of entertainment." Thus, this "Friday" movie is doomed by a self-referential sense of humor that decides to make a sort of action hero out of Jason.
This movie is just the same old stuff that we saw in the earlier movies: Jason Voorhees stalks and kills people around Camp Crystal Lake (which has been renamed Forest Green for this film).
Following the backlash from fans at the previous instalment's omission of Jason Voorhees as the killer and the general awfulness of the film as a whole, the series took a new direction thanks to the efforts of director and writer Tom McLoughlin.
Jason Lives is the first time Jason has been recognised as a supernatural force (which would explain his refusal to die after being disposed of in a manner of gruesome ways previously) and one of the earliest examples (perhaps the first example?) of a horror movie being so humorously self-reflexive, long before the post-modern horror boom in the 1990's following the success of Scream (1996).A year after A New Beginning (1985), Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) and a friend drive to Jason's grave in the hope of burning the body to rid Tommy of his recurring nightmares.
But his daughter Megan (Jennifer Cooke), believes him and decides to take matters into her own hands.Despite treading very familiar ground to the movies that came before - the film is again little more than an endless series of disposable characters being cut to bloody pieces - Jason Lives is the best in the series thanks to McLoughlin's obvious talent for comedy.
It also has a better story than parts III and IV with the sheriff and his daughter & Tommy going after Jason, plus Megan is one of the top Friday girls in the series.The film runs 9l minutes and the cut version 86 minutes.GRADE: B-.
Jason Lives is action packed, gory, humorous, suspenseful, and even kind of heartwarming all at the same time, the score and soundtrack are amazing, The male and female lead have great chemistry, the acting is pretty decent, the characters are very likable, The kills are creative, and Jason(played expertly by C.J. Graham)has an awesome look in this movie.
Several years after he supposedly killed Jason, Tommy Jarvis digs up Jason's body, on Thursday the 12th, in the middle of a lightning storm, to make sure he's really dead, but then, well, read the title of the movie.
Though iam a big fan of friday the 13th and have liked or enjoyed almost all of its movie's,even those whom most die hard fab's call crap's,i must say this movie was a bit ''Downer''.For starter it was too much fast paced and the story moved so quickly that you lost touch with it until the last sequences when all the fun had gone away.Also,the killing's in the movie were not as much suspenceful,entertaining and likable as in the other part's,people just came and got killed and we didnt even got to know the character's a little bit as in other f13 movies and relative unknowns who suddenly popped into the movie were dispatched just becuz they were with the teens who jason was going to kill,Big deal!also what was the point of the stupid resurrection,it was even worse than jason being sent to hell in part 9.And ofcourse no nudity and liitle sex excitement that most f13 movies contained and some annoying character's like the soldier impersonator's and i loved when these people got killed.But i did had its plus points like the Triple decapitation which i just loved,a very good and bloody scene about a camp counsellor,sissy's friend,getting killed and my favourite Alice cooper's wonderful song 'He's back'.and the final fight sequece.Overall 5 out of 10.
But lightning is attracted to the metal fence-post Tommy stabs into the corpse in a rage and Jason is brought back to life.The series had at this point pulled itself up from the depths that were the first Friday the 13th films.
'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.
Donning his iconic hockey masked, the newly zombified killer sets off for Camp Crystal Lake, which has been renamed Forest Green with an inevitable blood bath and a showdown between Tommy and his old nemesis on the cards.From the offset, it would be quite easy to mistake Jason Lives as just another generic slasher movie in a franchise which had already ran out of steam by the time it's fifth instalment had come along.
The story here picks up with the Tommy Jarvis character, this time played by Thom Mathews from "Return of the Living Dead" fame, trying to get rid of Jason's body once and for all, but ends up bringing him back to life.
Bad news is that nobody believes that Jason is now a living dead, and Camp Crystal Lake has been opened again under a new name, so Jason has a lot of work to do.This movie follows Tommy's attempt to finally kill Jason, but it gave me the impression that the movie was done with the purpose of pleasing Jason's fans who were disappointed with Part V.
Friday The 13th Part VI Jason Lives is my personal favorite out of the whole series, Jason was back with his Machete and Hockey Mask and even the acting is pretty good Anywho is the Plot Tommy Jarvis is released from the mental institutions in which he has spent most of his adolescence.
Now, Jason's back where he belongs, and this is the first movie of where the Friday series where things start to get great.
Helps make things believable, and the scene where Jason looks at the little girl in the cabin, without making a move to harm her it just wonderful, showing that maybe he isn't as cold hearted as people think, or that he really is just a boy inside a man's body.A great movie in many ways, and I love it...to death!.
Friday the 13th part 6: Jason lives i think wasn't a bad movie.
JASON LIVES is considerably one of the best in the FRIDAY THE 13TH series.