Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Three Times Before You Have Felt The Terror, Known The Madness, Lived The Horror. But This Is The One You've Been Screaming For.

Jason, presumed dead of the wounds inflicted on him at the end of Friday the 13th 3, is taken to the morgue. But Jason isn't dead, he's just biding his time. He escapes from the morgue, killing an attendant and a nurse, and makes his way back towards Crystal Lake.

Meanwhile, six teenagers have rented a cabin on the lake across from another cabin which is occupied by the Jarvis family including Trish, and her younger brother, Tommy the super-nerd. While the new neighbours party hard and enjoy their new wilderness surrounding, little to they realize they had better live it up quick, while they still have time to live.

Jason soon arrives, seemingly even stronger and angrier than before, to go on another one of his murderous rampages. Soon only Trish and Tommy remain to stop Jason, supposedly once and for all.

The Final Chapter was meant to be the end of the line for the Friday the 13th series, as we all know, it wasn't, but they did a pretty good job of letting you think it would be based on what happens to Jason at the end. Still, another fairly solid sequel.

Jason is great in this one once again in this movie. Here is where the viewer starts to get the distinct impression that this guy isn't just some psychotic killer with a taste for revenge, he is actually a practically unstoppable undead killing machine. As for the other characters, some of them are par for the course, others are notably obnoxious. On the other hand, the script would appear to suggest that the obnoxious ones were meant to be that way, and they do a fine job at it. Ultimately it just makes Jason's arrival and subsequent slicing up of these twits all the better.

Jason's demise at the hands of the boy, Tommy Jarvis, adds an eerie twist to the conclusion of the film, suggesting that while Jason is "dead", a new villain may be in the making. Despite this, they found a way to bring Jason back... I guess Paramout found it a bit tricky to lay such a successful (and no doubt profitable) series to rest so quickly.

4.5 deadfucks out of 5
Rated 18A for violence/gore, sexual content, nudity, language.


Watch the The Final Chapter trailer.