Wow, what a mind fuck that last picture was! It wasn’t Jason at all! In case you skipped that one (as you should), allow me to fill you in on the events of A New Beginning. As Tommy is “recovering” at Pinehurst, a halfway house type place that employs a similar set of rules as Pablo Escobar’s self built prison, the townsfolk are being murdered by an unknown killer. The killer makes his way to Pinehurst to kill all the people there as well. We finally get to see who it is, and it’s Jason! Right? No? Well, let’s see. He is wearing a hockey mask like Jason. But it has blue on it rather than red. Did he get a new one from a sporting good store? He certainly has the same M.O. as Jason. Killing everyone and having a special distaste for teenagers. But alas, it is not Jason. Tommy gets the better of him and kills him. His mask comes off and we see that it is Roy, one of the ambulance guys. Quite a shock, as every time Roy was on camera, he had the goofy facial expressions, and mysterious music played. Turns out Roy is the father of the kid that was axed to death at the beginning of the film. Whew! At least Jason is still dead. Right?
Jason Lives opens with Tommy (who now is a dead ringer for Michael Dudikoff circa American Ninja) and his friend determined to make sure. They have escaped from a mental institution and are headed to Jason’s grave. Tommy wants to cremate his body and send him to hell (be patient Tommy; you’re 3 sequels away from that). They get to his grave and open his coffin. By now, Jason is a badly decomposed corpse and a multi-family dwelling for worms and the like. Tommy, who is batshit crazy, stabs him numerous times with a metal rod, leaving the rod in his chest. A couple of lighting strikes and Jason is awake. Or is reanimated into a zombie. Whichever, he kills Tommy’s friend and Tommy drives to Crystal Lake to warn everyone that he is alive. Crystal Lake has been renamed Forest Green in an effort to separate the Jason legend from the town. Tommy goes to the Sheriff’s office and starts rambling about how he dug up Jason’s body and how he is coming after him and is immediately locked up to prevent him scaring the townsfolk. This would hardly be a proper sequel if there weren’t some camp counselors coming in to town to re open the camp. This time, however, it opens, and a bus load of kids actually make it to the camp (Nice job, parents. I don’t care if it does have a new name, there were still countless murders there). Jason walks his way back to the camp killing everyone in his path until he arrives.
Puck says that this is his favorite. While it is not mine, it is a pretty good installment. Jason Lives takes a different approach (not being crap). It realizes that the franchise has basically become a parody of itself, and runs with it. There is some genuinely good comedy in this, and it is well placed. The film is still “horror” when appropriate and the story is fairly interesting. Consistent with it’s predecessors, the acting is sub-par to mediocre, but it fits. This film strikes me as a product of a fan of the series that made a sequel with the intention of making it fun. It works.
I still say that it is retarded that people still inhabit this town let alone patronize the camp. I mean holy shit, there is a group of executive office workers playing paintball in the woods at Camp Blood. Really? And I don’t know about you, but I have a kid, and if I even remotely suspect that something dangerous might happen by letting her do something, she ain’t doing it. Why would any parent send their child to this camp?
Favorite kill: Folding the Sheriff in half. Although Nikki getting her face smashed in to the bathroom wall so hard you can see an impression of her face from the other side is a close second.
Also, Jason is a zombie. He may have been brought back to “life” by lightning, but he is shot several times (not in the brain!) and survives.
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