Years after Tommy Jarvis thought he finished Jason off once and for all, Tina Shepherd, a teenage girl with telekinetic powers, accidentally frees him from his watery tomb. Jason gets right back into the swing of things, unleashing a murderous rampage upon the two nearby cabins on Crystal Lake. One cabin is housing Tina, her quack doctor, and her mother. The other is housing Jason's favourite prey, partying teenagers. Only Tina, with her supernatural abilities, can defeat Jason this time around.
The New Blood temporarily saved the Friday the 13th series from its descent into mediocrity. A lot of the things that did disservice to the last two films are gone in The New Blood. Namely, cheesy one-liners, comic relief characters, and the long played out character of Tommy Jarvis. Jason, now played by Kane Hodder, is scarier and more vicious. We also get a look at him without his mask yet again in this installment. By this point he is looking like a decaying zombie. He's seen better days... sort of. At any rate it's all irrelevant because by this point in the series it is pretty clear that he is essentially immortal and unstoppable. Of course he is temporarily stopped again at the end of the film, in way which is potentially even stupider than in Jason Lives. But putting that aside, New Blood is a return to the Friday the 13th style which made the series a success in the first place. If only it could last.
4 tree saws out of 5
Rated 18A for violence/gore, nudity/sexual content, language, drug use, frightening scenes.
Watch the New Blood trailer.
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