Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is my all time number 3 favorite film of the franchise. It is one of my personal favorite horror movies. This movie is the bomb this movie is the best horror slasher 80's movie in my opinion. They don't make movies like this anymore. I really wish that Hollywood would make movies like this one today. This movie has everything I just love to death from the setting, from the music from the actors just everything it has in here. I love, love, love, love this film so much to death it is in my heart and I will always cherish it. Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.My number third best film. There are Reasons why I love this movie to death and it is my number three film in the franchise. My favorite Jason will always be Ted White and my final girl will be Kimberly Beck as Trish Jarvis, but this movie has action and horror mixed together. I am big fan of this film. It is my number 1 personal horror film in the horror genre. I have this movie on Blu-ray disc and I also have the poster about this movie my girlfriend bought me so much I love it. Tommy Jarvis is the ultimate hero in this movie for me. He saved those kids from Jason, he saved Deputy Rick Cologne from been killed he is alive thanks to Tommy, he saved Megan from Jason she is alive thanks to Tommy. He sacrificed him self by luring Jason in to the lake and chained him with a chainsaw. Tommy remorse when he found out that Jason killed Cort and that girl Nikki. Thom Mathews to me is the only Tommy Jarvis no one else is. I love the scene in which Jason stabs Cort and the Van flips over and you see a huge explosion and Jason stands on the van great practical effect. I love the grave yard opening scene and the resurrection scene with a lightning to Jason. The end with the boat is the best in the film ever. I love the story, the setting the filming locations all the actors and actress in it. I love that young girl Nancy. We have a Nancy from A Nightmare on Elm Street in this movie ha ha. I love the atmosphere the acting, the action everything about this movie. Tom McLoughlin wrote and directed one the best film of all time. Scream and even Supernatural were inspired by this movie. Eric Kripke created two brothers who looked a like Tommy Jarvis with those jeans so yes it was inspired by this movie. I love the songs from Alice Cooper He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask), Teenage Frankenstein, Hard Rock Summer, Animal From Fellon.Tom McLoughlin resurrected Jason Voorhees and he made so damn good job the best film he directed and writing it. I just love it so damn much. Jennifer Cooke was great as Megan Garris and she was likable I love her so damn much in this movie. I love David Kagen as Sheriff Garris he grow on me he gave 100% of him. I love Kerry Noonan as Paula she had the most heart in this movie. I love Tom Fridley as Cort seriously he looks like young Johnny Depp in this movie. Whole cast is serious and does excellent job I love everyone in this movie. I love Bob Larkin as Martin on the graveyard I love his lines "Some folks sure got a strange idea of entertainment." I love the actor so damn much in this movie. I love this movie to death and it is my movie it is a perfect 10, this movie has action and horror it is mixed together and it is my personal favorite Jason favorite personal horror film. We also have Tony Goldwyn and Nancy McLoughlin wife of Tom McLoughlin in this movie excellent. This movie get's my favorite Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval 10/10 the best Friday the 13th slasher movie ever I love it to death. They aren't movies like this one today we don't have them anymore.

Well, if there was any doubt to Jason being alive or dead before, this movie will put an end to that question. In this movie at least, and from then on,, Jason was definitely dead, and is now brought back to life. He's brought back by being dug up and struck by lightning, which was pretty cliche, but otherwise, I guess the movie is pretty much what you'd expect from a Friday the 13th film. Main issue I had is the literally, too dumb to even be alive police chief who seems to think someone is capable of killing another person while in jail. It as a relief at the end though. It's not a bad movie, another one full of blood and bull crap.

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.

"I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."-Lizabeth, "Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI."Whelp, here you have it folks. Arguably the finest entry in the long-running "Friday the 13th" media franchise.Is it because it has the most hardcore, brutal kills of the series? Nope! Does it have the most bouncing bodies skinny-dipping in the water? Not at all! Does it have the most intense portrayal of psycho-killer Jason? Not a chance!No, this film succeeds as the best in the series for one simple reason: fun. It's just flat-out a fun movie. Thanks in no small part to a wickedly self-aware, satirical script courtesy writer/director Tom McLoughlin, filled to burst with savage meta-humor years before meta-humor was really a thing. Kevin Willaimson... eat your heart out! OK, I kid... I love Kevin Williamson... but McLoughlin did kind of beat him to the punch 10 years before "Scream" further revolutionized the idea of self-aware slasher-flicks.Tommy Jarvis (now portrayed by Thom Mathews in a role that more-or- less ignores the troubled Jarvis of Part V) has had enough of living in fear. He has decided to face his troubled past once and for all by digging up the body of Jason Voorhees and burning it to symbolically conquer his childhood trauma. But a hilarious bolt of lightning (in a cute nod to "Frankenstein") accidentally brings the beast back to life, now as an unstoppable "Super-Zombie!" Uh, oh. Now Tommy must team with the gorgeous daughter of the local sheriff (Jennifer Cooke) and try and stop the hulking Jason from taking out a new group of camp- counselors who are overseeing a children's summer-camp at the former Camp Crystal Lake. (Now referred to as "Forest Green.) What follows is a surprisingly hilarious and sometimes creepy mixture of laughs and thrills, in a Hellish roller-coaster ride of mayhem.McLoughlin really seems in his element with this film. While his other work has been hit-and-miss, his keen sense of postmodern meta- humor jives well with the outlandish nature of the story. Nobody was going to be able to really take Jason coming back to life after all this time seriously... so the curve-ball of having the story border on self-parody helps make it a bit more appetizing and easier to digest. And thankfully, it lends to a general feeling of freshness throughout the whole film. We've seen this movie before five times... but not quite like this. Seeing characters acknowledging the outlandish nature of events, punctuating dialog with witty and humorous cutaway gags, and making Jason's kills less brutal and more Looney-Tunes-esque is just great fun and both a nice compliment and contrast to the previous films.It also helps that this film has some of the best characters and performances since Part III. (I still love you, Shelly!) Thom Mathews makes for a fun new Tommy Jarvis, who is both troubled but also very proactive, in a nice contrast to mopey-Tommy from the last film. Cooke is adorable and spunky as our lead heroine Megan, and though she doesn't serve much outside of a general love-interest who occasionally gets in on the action, you still really like her and root for her. David Kagen eats up the role of the grumpy Sheriff who is gruff but has a soft-spot for his kid. And even the generic Camp Counselor fodder characters portrayed by actors such as Kerry Noonan and Renée Jones are surprisingly likable. This film thankfully eschews the standard cliché of having to define characters exclusively by singular quirks, and everyone feels a bit more grounded and realistic. They're all more-or-less decent people, which helps us actually care when Jason starts knocking them off.Add to that a really effective score by series composer Harry Manfredini, some really good cinematography from DP Jon Kranhouse and some really slick visual direction, and you just have a good, solid, fun time all around. There's no sore thumbs in the production either in front of or behind the camera. They all work together to generate a well-oiled machine of madness that I can't help but love.I'm somewhat shocked to be giving this such a high rating, but I have to. "Jason Lives" is a 9 out of 10 as a horror fan. It's phenomenal entertainment, and it's self-aware sense of humor may even win over a few non-fans as well.