Following Jason Lives, the Friday the 13th franchise appears to have been written into a bit of a corner. Up until Part VI, Jason had just been some towering disfigured momma’s boy who happened to be very hard to kill. It wasn’t until this film that his decaying corpse was brought back from beyond the grave as an actual supernatural being. He was quite literally unkillable and could only be defeated by weighing him down to the bottom of Crystal Lake with a very heavy rock. How do you continue a franchise built upon a masked killer preying upon teenagers […]Read more »
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After the misstep that was Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Jason Lives course-corrects the slasher franchise back into Mr. Voorhees’ hands with spectacular results. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives serves as the third and final film in what many consider the “Tommy Jarvis” trilogy of films, a series named for the protagonist that stars in all three. Don’t fret if this connection was completely lost on you, though. Had they not shared a name across the films, I would probably have never put it together because of how wildly inconsistent the portrayals are. As this film begins, […]Read more »