Very Cool!!!

Best movie ever!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Jason lives is AWESOME Friday the 13th fun!!! Tommy Jarvis is older and very cool in this movie & from the excellent opening in that spooky graveyard with the lightening & the creepy atmosphere your hooked & it's such a fun thrill ride. Jason lives is EASILY one of my favourite of the EXCELLENT franchise!!! Friday the 13th franchise is the BEST Horror franchise ever & has the greatest fan base & this movie JASON LIVES is a huge fan favourite & i TOTALLY understand the love for this entry,it has a great atmosphere it has lots of fun characters & a really cool tough Sheriff Garris who is one of my favourite characters in the series along with CREIGHTON DUKE (Jason goes to hell) & Jason looks very cool & Tommy Jarvis is the best version of his character here,so yeah alot of love for a really special entry thats why it's the best one. TRULY A CLASSIC FRIDAY FILM & A CLASSIC SLASHER!!!

This film is the first on the list of (surprisingly) many "Friday" fans. I found this out when I saw about 100 comments on a photo on the "Friday The 13th: The Game" Facebook page; and rightfully so. This film has it all, it's fast paced, entertaining, terrifying, gory, funny and sexy all in one big package! There seriously isn't a dull moment and the momentum never falters. I say that this sequel is better than all others including the original because of how well done it really is. Jason is back home at Camp Crystal Lake and really goes to town on everyone in his way. The kills are unmatched, and the entire film puts you in that classic, sexy 80s feel and although there is humor, Tommy Jarvis' warnings go unheeded and there is an overall feeling of foreboding dread. Of all of the films, the kills on this one are really imaginative and unique with Jason utilizing a handy tool belt for his instruments of death. Needless to say, this cast is the best out of any of the films, with some really compelling performances (a thing that the "Friday The 13" series isn't known for); which really makes for a standout film. I really like that they're on site at the actual campground of Crystal Lake for the first time since Part One, and you really get that summer camp feel. Another factor that makes Part 6 so great are Jason's new found abilities, which debut in this film. No more is Jason the large, freaky, deformed fast moving masked maniac that we were introduced to in parts 2-4, but rather now an unstoppable force of nature, this is the introduction of Undead Jason, with all of his freakishly powerful abilities. Jason LIVES in this film and by extension, terror lives this film! After the dismal fifth entry, Paramount KNEW that they had to comeback in a really big way with Jason, and that's exactly what they did! This is the best camp film ever made hands down, and Jason really puts on a KILLER show!

I don't think I ever saw this entry in the long running series before and was pleasantly surprised by it's tongue-in-cheek nature. This film wisely abandoned the dumb possession storyline from the prior film and brings back Jason Voorhees proper. This film also wisely returns to it's original Crystal Lake setting. What makes this film work better than others is that writer/director Tom McLoughlin fully embraces the predictable, formulaic nature of slasher films (years before Kevin Williamson did the same with "Scream") and ends up making a rather meta entry into the series. The story here picks up with the Tommy Jarvis character, this time played by Thom Mathews from "Return of the Living Dead" fame, trying to get rid of Jason's body once and for all, but ends up bringing him back to life. You can probably guess what Jason then wants to do the rest of the film. There's a lot of good laughs and also some decent suspenseful sequences and also an ending that seems to leave things quite open for many many more Friday the 13th films. Tony Goldwyn made his film debut in a small part as one of Jason's many victims and Ron "Horshack" Palillo has a small role as well. Harry Manfredini again provides the Ch Ch Ch Ah Ah Ah music.

The weakest edition to the series since Part II. Friday the 13th has always been campy, and the previous installment, A New Beginning, introduced overt comedy to the films. Jason Lives tries to continue with the humor aspect while re-introducing the original killer and Camp Crystal Lake setting, but it just doesn't seem to work this time around. Friday the 13th is fun because it's already humorous, it knows it, but it doesn't bring it to the forefront, more often opting for a nod and a smile as it plays straight into the horror trope. Jason Lives revs the humor from Part V up a notch- into the realm of self referential and meta-humor, anticipating the wave of films that would follow Wes Craven's Scream almost exactly a decade later. But the effort is too weak, never really giving us a strong delivery in that field, always wavering on the edge of the Modern and Post- modern. And it gives us this half-hearted effort in lieu of the traditional elements of the Friday the 13th series- namely a strong atmosphere and baroque set and visual storytelling style. If you're not a completist I doubt you'll have made it this far, and so I doubt you'll be willing to skip, but this is just my two cents- that Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the weakest entry in the series up to this point and if you can bear it, go from Part V to Part VII- both great examples of movies with great atmosphere.