Post by slayrrr666 on Dec 14, 2005 13:59:15 GMT -5
`Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter' is the entry in the series that I believe is better than the original.
**SPOILERS**
Following the end of part 3, the police recover Jason's body and transport him away to a local hospital. He kills several of the staff before escaping and returning to Crystal Lake, where the Jarvis family and a bunch of local teens are staying nearby. Coming back from a trip, Tommy Jarvis' (Corey Feldman) dog runs into the teens in the middle of a skinny dip, and is ushered away by his older sister Trish, (Kimberly Beck) who one of the guys, Rob (Eric Anderson) takes an immediate liking to. Tommy is a whiz at making masks, which creeps Rob out when he visits. The teens' party becomes a little X-rated, making Samantha (Judie Aronson) nervous. While everyone else parties, she ventures down to the lake, meeting a grisly end. Unaware, the party continues, with everyone hooking up for the night. Samantha's boyfriend Paul, (Alan Hayes) goes to check on her, and is killer by Jason after finding her dead. One by one, they stray away from the cabin, each one falling victim to Jason. Only Ted, (Lawrence Monoson) Doug, (Peter Barton) Sara, (Barbara Howard) and Terri, (Carey Moore) are left. Tommy begins to worry about his own family's sake, so Trish goes out to find her, leaving Tommy alone the house. She runs into Rob in the woods, and he reveals to her the truth about Jason. Jason himself turns up at the party, leaving nobody alive. Trish and Rob find Tommy alone, and go check on the group next door, finding Jason and leading up to a final showdown.
The Good News: After upping the ante in part 3 with gore, part 4 switches most of that for shameless gratuitous nudity. More T&A is shown in part 4 than in any other `Friday' film, as at least everyone other than Tommy, Jason, and Tommy's mother gets nude at some point, many of them twice. However, if there is a lot of nudity, then a lot of gore should go with it as well, and in keeping with tradition, part 4 is pretty gory. We get several more impalements on foreign objects, a nice face ripping, and a truly gory dispatch for Jason, slicing the side of his face open with the machete. One of the many reasons why I like this one is that I have actually jumped at watching this movie, something that not even the first one didn't even do. He comes crashing through so many windows, I jumped at some of them. Many of the other jumps didn't, but those did. It also has, like part 3, this certain charm that you are almost forced to watch it again. This is also the first to not have a great bang ending, which works given its history, that this was supposed to be the last one, but was so good that part 5 was put into production, but it still is just a fun movie to watch.
The Bad News: The man thing I'm complaining at here is the sheer gratuitous nudity. This may shock a lot of you, seeing as how that is one of the reasons for seeing a horror movie, but when at least 20 percent of the film is nudity, you want a better story that you can get into. Unfortunately, that is the other drawback for the film. The people don't have a `clever' motive for them being there, as the others do. They were simply placed at Crystal Lake to be hacked and slashed, which could be a good thing when you think about it.
The Final Verdict: Simply an amazing movie. Slasher fans get everything they could want in this kind of film: gratuitous nudity, gory, gory deaths, and a slam-bang storyline, once you get past the fact that the reason for the film's being is clich? Nothing in this film will disappoint any type of horror fan, and is recommended viewing for anyone trying to get into the `Friday' series and needs a good starting off point.
Rated R: Nudity, Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and a few sex scenes
