If you missed them: Retrospective Intro, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 6

WHAT! Another one? I guess they made too much money for Jason to just die off. This Friday starts with a dream sequence. Tommy, the slayer of Jason, goes to his grave and finds two idiots dig up Jason to find that he is not dead. Tommy wakes up, looks to be twenty-ish, and is on his way to halfway house for kids his age. At the house, we meet some kids. The only kid who really matters is the fat annoying kid who gets killed by another resident.

We notice quickly that this isn’t the same Jason we’ve loved and hated. The Jason look-alike has different markings on his mask. Instead of the red triangle on the forehead there are two blue marks over the cheekbones. Tommy does have some visions of Jason in his mask as a reminder. Tommy hasn’t handled life well post Crystal Lake. He isn’t the fun talkative boy from the forth movie; he only has 15-20 lines in the whole movie and a short fuse too. He whips out some type of martial arts a couple times, which makes me wonder. Why would anyone let a kid with anger issues take karate lessons? Just sayin’.

Many people rag on this Friday. There are several reasons I enjoyed this one. First of all, they bring back the Jason POV shots in the woods, and an overall go since of suspense. They learned their lesson from the previous outing and realized that the “gotcha” scares work better if there is a little suspense to go with them. The other reason is that the first time I saw part 5 I was convinced that Tommy was the new Jason. So much that the second time I watched it, I thought that Tommy was Jason. I remember when Jason was in the barn with Tommy, and I still thought something was going to happen where Tommy was Jason. The writer thought it would be better for it to be a random EMS worker who’s son was killed at the beginning of the movie. Oh don’t forget that fat kid said that he didn’t have any family. If he only knew he had a stalker for a father, things would have been better.

There were three things that they could have done to help the series out. One, make Tommy a Jason 2.0. That’s what everyone wanted anyway. Two, make the kid who killed the fat kid Jason for the day. It wouldn’t have been good but it would have at least made more since than the actual killer. Three, not make the sixth movie . . .

Rating: 3 Bloody Machetes
Body Bags Needed: 18
Non-Jason Kills: 18
Survivor(s): Tommy, Pam and Reggie