Friday The 13th Part Iv Views

General Goods

Ok, first of all, I.’m going to have to mention something I didn;’t in my reviews of Friday the 13th 1, 2, and 3. The entire series was a favorite of my brother and I growing up. The first Friday flick I can remember seeing as a kid is part 4, The Final Chapter. I remember being ok with it (for the most part, my dad making me cover my eyes during the tit shots …yet, of course, the gore was ok …hmmmm), until the dog went out the window. I was absolutely convinced Jason had thrown that dog out the window and killed it. More than the kids or anything else, it was the image of that dog being harmed that gave me nightmares.

My indoctrination into the Friday the 13th series began with Part 4, THE FINAL CHAPTER! This movie was fucking brilliant for me growing up a horror nut. First and foremost, it had a kid about my age in it, Tommy Jarvis, played by Corey Feldman, I could really relate to. Based on Tom Savini, obviously, the kid was into video games and horror movies. He was an amateur inventor (at least I pretended I was, I took stuff apart anyway), and made all kindsa crazy monster masks! BRILLIANT!

For Special Features, we get the Obligatory Commentary from director Danny Steinmann and some of the cast and crew, a commentary that offered up a little more insight into the troubled film than the making-of doc NEW BEGINNINGS: The Making of Friday the 13th Part V-A New Beginning. We get another dreadful entry into the LOST TALES OF CAMP BLOOD series/mini-movie, the Trailer, and the second part of the enjoyable pseudo-documentary THE CRYSTAL LAKE MASSACRES REVISITED (PART II).

Finally, ladies and gents, we get the REAL return of Jason in FRIDAY the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (which is somewhat of a misnomer as, in fact, he more or less roams around as the undead in this one, not living, not dead, but something in between, somethingp…TERRIBLE). Often overlooked and seen as somewhat forgettable by many, Writer/Director Tom McLoughlin finishes up the Tommy Jarvis cycle decently, if not perfectly.