Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Lack of good storyline.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all off.People have cited 'Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives' as one of the best of the 'Friday the 13th' films. Having re-watched it since saying in my review for the fourth film that 'The Final Chapter' should have been the last, actually the film was much better on re-watch. While far from perfect, it is agreed that it is one of the series' better ones, perhaps the best since the second film and the best post-'The Final Chapter' instalment. Wouldn't go as far to say it's the very best though.Starting with the strengths, 'Jason Lives' starts off incredibly well. The opening is creepy and there is also a witty James Bond parody credits sequence that one does not expect in a 'Friday the 13th' film. It is a highly atmospheric and stylish film visually, while not having the great effects and make-up work of the previous film 'Jason Lives' is still one of the best looking films in the series. The music is suitably haunting. 'Jason Lives' surprisingly is one of the better acted 'Friday the 13th' films and has some characters one cares for (especially Tommy) when they are not making illogical or stupid decisions. Thom Matthews is the most conflicted of the actors playing Tommy, while Jennifer Cooke has allure and CJ Graham has an unnerving presence when he is not made to act goofy.There are some darkly funny moments, the deaths (not an overload this time like 'A New Beginning') are inventively elaborate, there is some creepiness and the pace generally cracks like a whip, 'Jason Lives' is certainly not dull. However, the tone of 'Jason Lives' is rather unbalanced. There is too much of an emphasis on the humour, and while there are funny moments others are rather cheesy and stupid. While there is creepiness, the suspense in between is not enough and likewise with the scares, which were also pretty tame this time round.Namely because there are some unintentionally goofy moments with how people are made to act (including Jason) and the writing-a-whole-novel-worth list of goofs. Some of the pacing is rushed, especially towards the end. The dialogue continues to evoke a constant feel of toe-curling cringe.Overall, a resurrection worth checking out. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is my all time number 1 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.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.Thom Mathews is the best Tommy Jarvis in my opinion I love this actor so damn much he is so underrated. 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 the graveyard the scene that was filmed in this film I love C. J. Graham as Jason Voorhees he is excellent as Jason I love him so damn much on the screen. He gave 100% of him, oh he didn't? Yes he did! It was so joy able to watch this movie in Thursday that I was jumping from excitement so much I love this movie.I love the songs from Alice Cooper who performed the songs for this movie I wish Alice Cooper would have been extra in this movie. He was extra in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness which he produced and sung the song Prince of Darkness. I love soundtracks from this movie: He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask) the best song ever. I have heard the song many times. Teenage Frankenstein and Hard Rock Summer are the best soundtracks from Alice Cooper. The Song Animal is the best song from the movie I am listening I loved it. I have so fun with this movie the best of the best.I love the kills, "even if it has humor on it" what humor? I haven't seen any humor in the movie but I saw a great slasher film that's what I saw. Martin Becker made special effects and he was great I love practical effects in this movie I love good kills.This movie has Jason walking around like a Terminator from the first film we even have a Deputy Colone (Vincent Guastaferro) aiming with Dan Wesson Model 15-VH with a big laser sight on Tommy in which Megan use the gun either. It see similarity with these movie and with The Terminator from the 80's. The resurrection scene for Jason is excellent made given these movies I can go with it. I love the James Bond homage in the opening credits. This movie felt a little bit more like a movie from the Halloween franchise with Tommy and company going after Jason and that is probably why I loved it.I love the final climax showdown between Tommy and Jason on the lake set on fire in the climactic scene in the boat. Tommy is attacked in a boat in the middle of the lake and ties a boulder around Jason's neck to trap him. Jason fights back, holding Tommy underwater long enough to drown him. I love the sacrifice scene from Tommy that he sacrificed him self and he chained Jason in the lake which he belong. Tommy is a bad-ass in this movie is my action hero.I love this movie to death I love everything about this movie it is my number 1 favorite Jason film. This movie also has action I forgot to mentioned but it has ton's of action it is great entertaining action horror film.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.

An absolute hoot of a addition to the Friday 13th franchise. As is often the way with the "Friday" sequels, you can talk to one horror fan and this is the worst of the bunch, talk to another and it's the best etc etc. There's a more airy touch here and it serves the formula well, which if the series' fans are honest, is a formula that was getting stale quite early in the chain, so any sort of new ideas or direction is most welcome. After a glorious James Bond parody opens the credits sequence, accompanied by Harry Manfredini's superbly thunderous musical score, we get long running tormented character Tommy, here played by Thom Matthews, digging up Jason Voorhees' corpse so as to make sure the evil one is dead - oh and to kill him again. Enter a glorious Frankenstein homage (cheeky steal if you like) that sets us up for another round of stalk and dismember as Jason heads back to Camp Crystal Lake, which is now called Camp Forest Green!The kills are not particularly inventive, but there's a real thud of humour about much of them. From an American Express Card to a bloody smiley face imprint, it's clear the makers have a glint in their eyes. We even get an early appearance from Tony Goldwyn, some four years before Ghost would make him a known name. Adding to the quality score, which BTW rattles around home cinema speakers lie a supernatural entity, is Jon Kranhouse's cinematography, which is gorgeous in colour lens selections. All that and you get an Alice Cooper soundtrack as well. From joyful reanimation to a suitably watery finale, this part 6 delivers more than enough to almost make you rush out to rent part 7. Almost... 6.5/10

"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.