Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 4K 1993

After the success of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, NewLineCinema, having accumulated finances thanks to the success of its horror series, buys another similar series from Paramount Pictures. And as a result, one of the most popular in its time, and certainly one of the longest running horror series in movie history, “Friday the 13th” finally ends on its ninth installment. As is often the case with the slasher genre (and with almost any franchise, the number of parts in which exceeds three), by the final part accumulates so many logical inconsistencies, bloopers and incongruities in the threads that connect all the parts, that it is impossible to do without some delirious twist in the finale. And so it happened.

In this, the ninth part, it is unclear why Jason, as if nothing happened, is back in his native Crystal Lake, although in the previous parts chiseled young people in Manhattan. But that's not all, maybe the current took him away. So, damn, from nowhere a mysterious uncle appears, with a hundred percent certainty stating that he knows how to kill a masked maniac. Apparently, the fact that the new masters of the franchise did not watch the previous installments at all has an impact.

Where this uncle was in the previous parts is unknown. Also, it suddenly turned out that the Voorhees family was not limited to mom and son, which adds another idiotic motive to our famous maniac - to reduce the number of relatives to the shortest possible value. At the same time, Jason himself moves from one body to another, and we will see his trademark hockey mask only a little bit, which kills the tradition of the series.

Personally, I expected that at least in the finale, despite all the plot gibberish, the director will be able to compensate all this with a strong drive and brisk scenes of killing, but the movie failed to do it. The dynamics of what is going on is just no, and the drawn-out scenes here are more than in the previous parts, taken together. And the trick with the transmigration of souls did not give absolutely no change in the concept. Jason does not merge with the surrounding under the guise of a civilian, so there is no spy suspense here, alas. It's business as usual, except instead of a mask and a brutal body, it's an ever-changing face-off.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is far from triumphant, and not even the most adequate ending of the famous series. The series finale was almost the worst in the history of the franchise, except for the pre-title hint at a later crossover with Freddy Krueger taking Jason's mask with his clawed hand. But that's another story. In this case, it's an extremely weak movie, which finally plunges the franchise into lowbrow fare.