Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
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| Directed by | Adam Marcus |
| Produced by | Sean S. Cunningham Debbie Hayn-Cass |
| Written by | Jay Huguely Adam Marcus Dean Lorey |
| Starring | Kane Hodder John D. LeMay Kari Keegan Allison Smith Steven Culp Steven Williams Billy Green Bush |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Bill Dill |
| Editing by | David Handman |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | August 13, 1993 |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,000,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $15,935,068 (domestic) |
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is a 1993 slasher film,It is the ninth and final installment of the Friday the 13th film series and the first sequel to be distributed by New Line Cinema.
The film was released unrated on DVD in North America, and includes both versions of the film: the censored R-rated version, and the unrated version, which runs three minutes longer than the theatrical version of the film.
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[edit] Plot
The undead serial killer Jason Voorhees, thought to be killed in part 8, is back at Crystal Lake—through some form of unexplained or unknown resurrection—but this time the killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. As he is about to kill a woman (undercover FBI agent Elizabeth Marcus), the FBI springs a trap. After gunning him down, they launch a grenade and Jason gets blown to pieces—but, unknown to the agents, Jason's dark heart keeps beating. His remains are sent to a morgue, where the coroner Phil is hypnotized by Jason's heart and begins to eat it, causing himself to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. Jason, now in Phil's body, kills Phil's assistant, and two FBI agents.
Jason then goes to Crystal Lake, where he finds three partying teens named Alexis, Deborah, and Luke. While Luke and Deborah have sex in a tent, Jason kills Alexis with a scalpel and then kills Deborah by splitting her in half with a sign-post, and Luke is killed off-screen.
Jason then attacks police officer Josh and Edna. He kills Edna by slamming her head into a car door. He then transfers himself into Josh's body, possessing him.
Meanwhile, bounty hunter Creighton Duke finds out that only members of Jason's bloodline can truly kill him and he will return to life 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 stabs Jason with a fireplace poker. Diana is killed with a knife sharpener and Jason escapes. Steven is falsely accused and arrested for Diana's murder, and meets Duke, who reveals Jessica's relation to Jason by asking Steven to 'pay' for the info by letting Duke break his fingers. Determined to get to Jessica before Jason does, Steven escapes from jail.
Jessica is dating American Casefiles 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 Josh gruesomely 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 runs over Jason and explains the situation to Jessica, who does not believe him and throws him out of the car. Jessica makes it to the police station.
Jason arrives at the police station, and kills most of the officers. He then nearly possesses Jessica before Steven arrives and stops him; Jessica realizes that Steven's story is true. In the chaos, Duke makes his escape. The two make their way to Joey B.'s diner to grab the baby. Jason arrives, but is attacked by the owners of the shop with guns. He manages to kill the owners, but is impaled by Jessica's friend Vikki with a barbecue skewer. Jason however impales her on the same skewer, and smashes 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 ordering Jessica to 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. Meanwhile, an unseen 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 under a dresser. Randy (possessed) attempts to be reborn through Stephanie, but Steven arrives and severs his neck with a machete. Jason's heart, which has now grown into a demonic infant, crawls out of Randy's neck, and makes its way to the basement where it crawls into Diana's dead body through her vagina while Steven and Jessica pull Duke out of the basement. Complete with worksuit and hockey mask, Jason is reborn.
While Steven and Jessica attempt to retrieve the dagger, Duke distracts Jason: in response, Jason kills him before turning his attention to Jessica. Steven tackles Jason, sending both men flying out a window. While Jessica retrieves the dagger, Steven engages Jason in hand-to-hand combat. Just as Jason moves in for the coup de grâce, Jessica stabs him in the chest, releasing the tortured souls that Jason has accumulated through his entire killing spree throughout the whole series. Numerous 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. After they depart, Jason's mask is unearthed by a dog, but Freddy Krueger's clawed glove bursts out of the ground, grabs Jason's mask, and drags it to Hell, setting up Freddy vs. Jason.
[edit] Cast
- John D. LeMay as Steven Freeman
- Kari Keegan as Jessica Kimble
- Steven Williams as Creighton Duke
- Allison Smith as Vicki
- Steven Culp as Robert Campbell
- Billy Green Bush as Sheriff Landis
- Erin Gray as Diana Kimble
- Rusty Schwimmer as Joey B.
- Leslie Jordan as Shelby
- Andrew Bloch as Josh
- Kipp Marcus as Randy
- Richard Gant as Coroner (Phil)
- Gino Kane as Ward
- Julie Michaels as Elizabeth Marcus
- Paul Devine as Paul
- Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees/Guard/Freddy Krueger's claw
John D. LeMay is one of only two actors from the TV series to appear in the film franchise, the other being John Shepherd who played Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.
[edit] Box office and reception
The film opened in 1,355 theaters, making $7.6 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film made $15.9 million, making it the third lowest grossing Friday the 13th film.
Like the films before it, Jason Goes to Hell received negative reviews, currently holding a 29% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1] However, it did fare better than Jason Takes Manhattan.
[edit] Other media
A three-issue comic adaptation of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday written by Andy Mangels was published by Topps Comics. As the comics are based upon the original shooting script of the film, elements that were left out of the film are used in them. Topps also released a series of trading cards for the film.
The FBI sting that occurs at the beginning of the film is foreshadowed in the novel Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat, which takes place between the events of the seventh and eighth films. The epilogue of the book states that the FBI, upon discovering Jason Voorhees actually exists, have begun making plans to trap him and "send him straight to Hell";[2] the actual events of the 'sting' are revealed in Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath.
Freddy Krueger's clawed hand coming out of the ground and taking Jason's mask was a reference to the future crossover between the two (similar to the Alien Skull scene in Predator 2, which was a production in-joke), which had been in development hell since 1987. It was finally finished in 2003, a year after this film's sequel.
The film features the appearances of the skull dagger and Necronomicon from the Evil Dead films. Jason, Freddy, and Ash Williams (the main protagonist of the Evil Dead movies) would later meet in the comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (a story adapted by writer Jeff Katz from a Freddy vs. Jason 2 screenplay treatment he had written in 2004)[3] and again in Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors.
[edit] References
- ^ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Arnopp, Jason (2005-10-25). Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat. Black Flame. ISBN 1844162710.
- ^ "'Freddy vs Jason vs Ash' Script Treatment!!!". Bloody Disgusting. 2005-03-08. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/3502/. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
[edit] External links
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at the Internet Movie Database
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at AllRovi
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Rotten Tomatoes
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Box Office Mojo
- Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
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