Jason Goes To Hell (1993)
"My professional opinion: this guy's deader than shit.
Hahahahaha. Um, strike that last comment from the record."
Story:
"After being blown away by a team of FBI agents, Jason
Voorhees needs to find a way to overcome certain death. When his bloodied remains
are sent to the morgue, his heart, still intact, is able to hypnotize a coroner
and take over his body. After brutally dispatching a couple of FBI agents, he
heads back to his favorite stomping grounds: Crystal Lake. Jason commences
another teen massacre while a bounty hunter discovers the only way to kill
him."
The movie opens with a girl driving to Crystal Lake all
alone. She goes up to a cabin, and starts making herself at home. After quickly
fixing a light bulb, she decides to take a shower. Jason's boobie senses must
have tingled, because he comes out of no where to attack this girl. She takes
off running through the woods into an open field. She tucks and rolls over some
men hiding in the bushes. The men spring out and open fire on Jason. They shoot
him about 100 times (confirmed later) and then decide to blow him up. (Why they
didn't do this to begin with?) Jason is blown to pieces and we see his heart
stop beating.
After the title card, a coroner (Phil) takes Jason's body
into the morgue. Phil goes over all the damage that had been done to Jason's
body. He examines Jason's heart next and it starts beating again. For some
reason, he scoops it up and takes a big bite of it. This causes some yellow
beams to go out of Jason's corpse to go into Phil's body, and also makes him
roar like a lion. Shortly after this, Phil leaves the morgue on a killing
spree.
Now we are introduced to Creighton Duke, a bounty hunter.
For some reason (it's never explained) he knows about Jason's whole family
history and his ability to body swap with anyone. Creighton goes to a small
diner in "Jason's home town" where we are introduced to a waitress
named Diana. Creighton says he needs to help to take down Jason once and for
all, but he ends up getting put in jail. Not sure why he had to be arrested,
but he was. Meanwhile, Jason's spirit is hopping around from body to body in
search of something more permanent.
Eventually, we find out that Diana is Jason's sister. After
she is killed, the only one that can defeat Jason is her daughter, Jessica. So
will she defeat him, or will he take over her body and become himself once
more?
Acting: Honestly, I didn't have a problem with the acting in
this entry. The only actress that I couldn't stand was Kari Keegan, who played
Jessica. She was just awful. The stand out for me was John D LeMay, who played
Jessica's boyfriend, Steven. He carried the film. I can't really comment on
Kane's performance on this one, because he is barely behind the mask.
Fear Factor: I do not find this movie scary at all, but
something that I do love about it is the practical effects. The kills in this
movie are the best part about it. Other then that, I find this film to be
extremely cheesy. Not in a good way, either. I found myself rolling my eyes
constantly and being annoyed by character choices.
Originality: This entry is 100% different than any other one
in the series. In this case, is that a good thing? No. It's not. I'll start
with the only positive note I have for this movie. This is the most story
driven out of probably the whole series. There are a lot of characters and you
get to know them pretty well. Now, the negative. This movie makes no sense. All
of a sudden Jason Voorhee's has a sister? What? Where the hell has she been
this whole time? It's just a dumb detail to put in the ninth movie in a
franchise. Who is Creighton Duke and why does it feel like they should have
given him more screen time? Whenever he came on screen, I was like, "Oh
yeah. He's in this". The film just has so many issues. I get that they
were trying to do something different, but it just didn't work.
Overall: Jason Goes To Hell is a horrible Friday the 13th
film. Maybe if it had been a different supernatural slasher, it might be a cult
classic by now. Who knows? All I know is that it doesn't work for a Friday
film. I did love the kills very much, and the character development that we did
get was good (excluding Creighton). Steven was a great final guy who really
fought until the very end. The best part of this movie was the last shot of the
film when Jason actually got taken to Hell, and we get a nice little cameo of
someone we all love.
Next week, I'll see you in the future... and space?
Scores:
No comments:
Post a Comment