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Tommy, the kid who managed to dispatch hockey-masked
killing machine Jason Voorhees, is sent to summer
camp mental institute for teens. Tommy suffers
from nightmares and hallucinations and soon people
in the neighbourhood are getting murdered. Could
it be old Jason who's back for another round?
There's only one clever thing about this sequel,
the fifth in the series, and it is its title
(after Part 4 titled "The Last Chapter"). Then it's
all downhill from there... After a decent trick
opening (featuring a needless cameo by Corey
Feldman, who played Tommy in Part 4) we move the
film to a mental institute for kids, which seems
to be required for every teen-horror series.
Doesn't feel like the director did any especially
serious research about the subject matter. The
counsellors are kind of "Days of our
Lives"-sympathetic people who doesn't seem very
concerned over that the kids they're supposed to
look after are running around the neighbourhood
having sex everywhere and from time to time killing
each other off.
The main teens of the film (the director's idea
of typical mental patients) are either dorky and
annoying, or loud-mouthed and stupid. Or all
together. Either way, you wish them a quick death
but first our hockey-masked hero must knock off
the pointless supporting cast, like a pair of white
thrash mom & son (the mom sports the best line,
cursing at her offspring and calling him "a big
dildo!"), a horny ambulance driver, a blonde
waitress (doing a ridiculously gratuitous
tit-flash), an outrageous Michael
Jackson-wannabe, etc., etc.
John Shepherd, probably sole good thing about the
film, is very good as Tommy (even though his
resemblance to Corey Feldman is non-existent).
Unfortunately most time is wasted on his annoying
co-stars, including the blonde heroine and a
cute kid who spends last 20 minutes of the film
running around screaming in the rain. Poor
Shepherd spends most time sweating a lot and
looking pissed-off until he goes off-screen for
over an half-hour and then returns for a brief,
climatic encounter with Jason.
Then we get a completely ludicrous, desperately
contrived twist, which has worked much better in
a number of other horror sequels (for example
"Psycho II") before rounding up with a stupid
ending actually ripped-off (but plot wise ignored
here) from Part 4. Add little gore, bad jokes,
tacky sex-scenes and unintentional laughs and
you've got one of the worst "Friday" sequels -
and that says a lot...
Highest body count in the "Friday" series along
with "Jason Goes to Hell". Unfortunately, most
killings are the usual knife/machete/meat/ax
cleaver mayhem expect for the off-screen ones
and an original touch with a road flair stuffed
into a guy's mouth.
Harry Manfredini score. Nothing new here...
One of the worst "Friday" sequels, featuring a
bunch of annoying, pointless characters who you
wish to die quickly but gets more screen time
than underused John Shepherd, who's the sole
good thing about this mess. Also starring a
blonde bimbo and cute kid running around
screaming in the rain, and a desperately
contrived twist ending.
Review By: Slicer-Dicer
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