Review of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) by Nick K — 02 Oct 2009

For a Friday the 13th film, the acting in this is surprisingly good. It still has a few actors that make you groan, but the actors who get the most face time are decent and get the job done. In fact, I probably would've rated this a few points higher if it wasn't for a few factors.

The main one being that Jason is a worm. That's right. A fucking worm. Not only that, but he's like this demonic worm thing that the assblasting worms in Dreamcatcher would probably find attractive.

If they hadn't tried to give Jason this supernatural explanation and had something else in its place, this would have been a lot better. Jason, like the actual Jason with the hockey mask, is really only in the film for maybe ten to fifteen minutes tops.

So that hurts the film, in my eyes. They also made Jason make all these weird noises this time around. He was wheezing, breathing heavily, groaning, and grunting. It didn't fit the character. He was generally silent up until this film and is again in Jason X.

So...what the hell? It's a disappointing sendoff overall for a film labeled as The Final Friday. I guess it wasn't completely pointless. We did get the Freddy Vs Jason tease at the end, which wasn't really followed up on for ten years.

But I digress...