Jason returns to Crystal Lake and falls into an ambush set up with the intention of destroying him once and for all. He is riddled with over 100 bullets and blown to pieces by grenades. But will that stop Jason? Of course not!
The supernatural origins of Jason's powers are revealed in this (intended) final installment of the Friday the 13th series. When the remaining fragments of Jason's corpse are taken to the morgue for an autopsy, his demonic spirit transfers into one of the morticians.But he can only live in a host body for a limited period of time before having to jump into a new body via a snake-like demon. Jason's real goal is to reach his only living adult relative, Jessica, through whom he may be reborn permanently.
Meanwhile, an eccentric bounty hunter warns Jessica's estranged partner, Steven, of the impending danger. Now they must race against time, and the odds, to warn Jessica. While Jason hopes to be reborn through her, she is also the only one who can destroy him.To do this, she must use a magic dagger found in the Voorhees house to stab him and send him to hell.
Finally Jason arrives at his old family home. After a lengthy and messy battle, Jessica stabs Jason and after a cheesy light show, Jason is dragged to hell by demons. The final scene shows his mask lying in the sand where he was killed, Freddy Kruegers hand suddenly bursts from the sand and pulls Jason's mask underground, foreshadowing yet another sequel that was yet to come.
Jason Goes to Hell was the first, and best, installment in the Friday the 13th series to come from New Line Cinema, which picked up the series after it was dropped by Paramount. Jason, played again by Kane Hodder, looks particularly grim in this film. While we never see his face, his mask looks melted into his face, perhaps as a result of the toxic waste he is burnt by at the end of Jason Takes Manhattan. His head looks burnt and deformed, with scraggly tufts of hair sticking out the back of it. The Jason of most of the later Paramount sequels struggled to be scary in an increasingly cheesy context which became harder and harder to take seriously. This Jason slices campers in half, melts peoples faces off in deep fryers, and just generally makes sure you know that he is not to be fucked with.
Another interesting aspect of this Jason film is the cameo appearance of the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series. The dagger used to kill Jason also looks suspiciously like the one from Evil Dead, all of which seems to imply some sort of connection between the series which was never again mentioned or extrapolated on.
While Jason was supposed to be dead and gone for good this time, he still has a trip to space and a battle with Freddy Krueger in front of him before the franchise truly ended, only to be restarted a few years later by a fairly crummy remake. But for the time being at least, Jason's film career ends on a high note.
4 de-mustached Jason's out of 5
Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for sexuality and language.
Watch the Jason Goes to Hell trailer.
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