Smoreni Zmaj
In the previous, the eighth film of the "Friday the 13th" franchise, they finally departed from a long-ago shabby template and created something new, but in this desperate attempt to save the franchise they went too far and made a movie so unconvincing that it's even duller than its predecessors. In the ninth, "Jason Goes to Hell", they managed to find the right balance. The story returns to the Crystal Lake, but instead of the continuous streaming of pointless massacre that does not lead anywhere, this time the film actually has a complete meaningful plot. There is a prologue, there are an introduction and familiarization with the characters (the previous films completely left out the characterization, because characters were mostly dying after only a few minutes on the screen), complication, culmination, dissolution and epilogue. Although the story is fairly straightforward and linear, this movie has many elements of a thriller, and Jason is becoming a much more complex supernatural being than the gigantic zombie we are used to, which makes "The Final Friday" much more interesting than the empty slashers that precede it. There's, unfortunately, less nudity than before, although the girls are top-class, the killings are more in the style of action movies than horror, and the film introduces some new interesting details. The movie somewhat reminded me of the series "Supernatural", mostly because of Jason's demonic nature, magic dagger, blood magic, and for a brief moment you will also see the legendary "Necronomicon". They have gone so far as to depart from the template that they even gave the movie kind of happy-end, although, of course, in the last scene, they left the door ajar for a possible sequel. This made me confused a little, because the next film is "Jason X", not "Freddy vs Jason". Well, I guess it will clear up to me tomorrow. The strongest impression on me has left the prologue, the scene before the opening credits, partly because of well-made unexpected twist and partly because of the beautiful nudity of Julie Michaels.6,5/10
Jackson Booth-Millard
The previous eight Friday the 13th films all came one after the other in the 1980s, with mixed results, this ninth entry was billed as being the final film in the series, but you can't keep a good psycho killer down. Basically sometime after the events in Manhattan, the undead serial killer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is back at Camp Crystal Lake, he is lured into a trap by undercover FBI Agent Elizabeth Marcus (Julie Michaels), several armed men blow him to pieces, his body is destroyed and his remains taken to the Federal Morgue in Youngstown, Ohio for autopsy. Jason's putrid heart remains intact, the Coroner (Bean's Richard Gant) is fascinated by the remains, then Jason's heart starts beating, igniting a transfer of Jason's surviving soul, the coroner is possessed by Jason's demonic spirit after ingesting his heart, in the coroner's body Jason (who only shows in a mirror reflection) escapes, killing all in his path. Jason returns to Crystal Lake, where he finds and kills partying teens having sex, he also attacks two police officers, killing one and possessing the other, it is revealed later that Jason must continue transporting into other bodies, as he has a limited time to use each. Meanwhile bounty hunter Creighton Duke (Steven Williams) discovers that Jason can only be killed permanently by a member of his bloodline, and that he will return to his normal and near-invincible state if he possesses the body of a family member, his only living relatives are his half-sister Diana Kimble (Erin Gray), her daughter Jessica (Kari Keegan), and Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica, and Jessica's infant daughter Stephanie (Brooke Scher), Steven Freeman (John D. LeMay) is the father. Jason makes his way to Diana's house, she is killed, but he escapes when attacked by Steven, who is falsely arrested for murder, he meets Duke who explains Jessica's relation to Jason, Steven escapes from jail determined to get to her before Jason does. Jessica is dating American Case files reporter Robert Campbell (Steven Culp), he wants to boost ratings for his show, emphasising the return of Jason Voorhees from the dead, having stolen Diana's body from the morgue, Robert is next to have Jason's heart transferred. Jason attempts to reborn through Jessica, but is disrupted by Steven who takes her and hits him with his car, Steven tries to explain the situation to Jessica, but she doesn't believe him, throwing him out of the car and heading to the police station. Jason arrives at the police station, killing most of the officers, he nearly possesses Jessica before being stopped by Steven, she now believes him, in the chaos Duke makes his escape, Jessica and Steven go to a cafe to collect the baby, Jason is attacked by the owners before he kills them, Jessica and Steven find a note from Duke, he has the baby and demands Jessica meet him alone at the Voorhees house. At the house Duke gives Jessica a mystical dagger that she can permanently kill Jason with, meanwhile Jason transfers from Robert's body into a police officer. Duke falls through the floor, Sheriff Ed Landis (Billy Green Bush) and Officer Randy Parker (Kipp Marcus) confront Jessica, she accidentally kills Landis dropping the dagger, Randy is possessed by Jason, who attempts to 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, goes to the basement, and crawls into Diana's dead body, Duke is pulled out of the basement by Jessica and Steven as Jason is reborn into his original body (he does not need an actual living member of his family). Steven and Jessica try to retrieve the dagger, while Duke distracts Jason, he is killed, the dagger is found and Jason is stabbed in the chest, the souls Jason collected over time are released, and Jason is pulled into the depths of Hell by demonic hands, Steven and Jessica walk off with their baby into the sunset. Also starring Kane Hodder as a Security Guard, and a cameo by Freddy Krueger's arm (the ambiguous ending that lead to Freddy vs. Jason, ten years later), Rusty Schwimmer as Joey B., Leslie Jordan as Shelby, Andrew Bloch as Josh, Adam Cranner as Ward, Allison Smith as Vicki and James Gleason as Agent Abernathy. Unlike the previous films this entry does continue directly after the previous film, so Jason is essentially back from the dead with no explanation, and the same thing happened when he returned eight years later in tenth entry Jason X, critics praise the clever body- swapping concept to keep the crazed killer alive, I personally found it a bit out of place for the series, the gore was fairly good though, in my opinion it's an alright horror. Okay!
