Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives! was released August 1st 1986.
It was directed and written by Tom McLoughlin with music by Harry Manfredini and Alice Cooper. Starring, of course, Thom Mathews as Tommy Jarvis number three.
One Year since the events of Part 5 - so we’re now in 1990... we in da future! Quiet windy open then harsh music que! It’s a foggy evening with a full moon! I’m
starting to think our hockey masked killer is a lunatic!
Tommy Jarvis #3 [Thom Mathews!!!] is driving a truck with a friend, Hawes [Ron Palillo from Welcome Back Kotter] who is holding a classic Jason mask, but without the machete mark from... so it’s not Jason’s... it’s just a Redwings mask.
Tommy has unfinished business - and apparently hallucinations - so he’s going to Jason’s grave on a dark and stormy night to dig him up and cremate his remains. He’s ensuring the man he killed 6 years earlier is in hell... honey stop you killed him, he’s dead.
Hawes is right, if the hospital knew about this you would be going back to the institution, you need more help honey.
They dig up Jason’s corpse in the storm. I say corpse because He. Is. Dead!
If I had a dime for every time Thom Mathews resurrected a corpse in a cemetery I’d have 3 dimes, which isn’t many, but it’s funny that happened 3 times.
Ew Jason’s corpse is... ew. Just ew.
Tommy gets an auditory flashback to when he was Corey Feldmen and killed Jason. More determined than ever, Tommy grabs a metal rod from a fence and proceeds to stab Jason’s super rotted corpse with it while screaming. And Hawes simply remarks, with the best line reading ever, “oh shit.”
Tommy throws the hockey mask down and says, “fuck you Jason.”
Lightning strikes the metal fence piece resurrecting Jason, Frankenstein style. OH the eye opening with the worms/maggots... fucking phenomenal.
Tommy tries to pull the fence piece out. Then! Jason grabs him. There is a struggle and Tommy gets away. Tommy throws gas on Jason but just when he gets his match lit it starts to rain putting the flame out. The Oh Shit look on Thom Mathews face is literally priceless.
Hawes whacks Jason in the back of the head with a shovel. So Jason does the natural thing... punches Hawes’ heart out and throws him into his coffin.
Meanwhile, Tommy gets the f*ck outta there. Beiiiiii Hawes. RIP.
[Kill Count 1: 1m]
Jason puts his mask on, picks up the the fence piece, and we get these cut/zoom ins to his eyes... which he walks out of and slashes with a machete and the title is cut onto the screen. CREDITS! This score is a bit more hardcore and intense than previous installments. Oh it’s probably the second best, after the 3-disco version.
Tommy pulls up to the Forest Green County Sheriff Dept. and runs in startling Sheriff Mike Garris [David Kagen - lol like Mick Garris] who pulls a gun! Calm down. Switch to decaf. Shit. Like who pulls a gun, finger on trigger, aimed right for the head... in a Sheriff’s department!?!?! No wonder Jason got away with so many kills. The old sheriff (from two movies ago) probably pinned some of the town’s ‘accidental’ deaths on him...
Oh no the Sheriff has jokes... “you in show business kid, you sure know how to make an entrance.”
Tommy: “look you gotta do something, Jason’s alive, he killed my friend, and now he’s coming for me?”
Sheriff: “don’t piss me off damnit, or I will repaint this office with your brain.” Jesus, I was being nice when I said accidental, nevermind Officer Homicide. Fuck.
Tommy is trying to convince Garris that Jason is alive. But, Garris recognizes him name: “aren’t you the kid who’s mother and friends were killed by that maniac?” Wow this guy has so much compassion, with a bedside manor like that, he shoulda been a doctor.
Confirmation that poor Tommy has been institutionalized for the past 6 years - making him about 18 y/o or so now.
Just then officer dopey aka Deputy Rick Cologne [Vincent Guastaferro] comes in with food.
Ok... Garris assumes Tommy is pulling a prank... why wouldn’t he assume Tommy is having a breakdown... I... I hate him, but also he is entertaining AF!
Tommy tries to steal a gun from the police and I am dead!!! They throw him in a cell. Ok warranted, he does seem like a danger to himself and others. But like, they don’t need to be assholes about it, he’s clearly sick.
“I tried to destroy him but I fucked up!” - Tommy Jarvis (1990). Slap it on a shirt.
Garris tells Tommy Crystal Lake was renamed Forest Green and no one wants to be reminded of what Jason Voorhees did. It’s giving Hypnocil. Tommy begs him to check the cemetery.
Deputy Rick is a Dick!
Couple driving Darren [Tony Goldwyn - Last House on the Left] and Lizabeth [the director’s wife]... they are cute and I like their banter. They mention they are camp counselors - who are lost.
She stops the car when she sees Jason in the road. “Darren we’d better turn around... because I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” META!
Jason is staring down their yellow bug... and it gets stuck. Darren suggest driving towards him to scare him. It’s a good idea. Totally flops. It’s so funny! Their banter is fantastic.
Jason stabs... spears? Their tire. Darren pulls out a gun. He gets out of the car and pulls the gun on Jason. Jason is undeterred. He shoots Jason as he skewers him.
- Big Glass back at it again - he stabs the windshield
Lizabeth gets out of the car and tries to crawl away. She offers her wallet... fair. He shish-kebabs her in the face. Her American Express card is left floating in the puddle... best product placement I’ve seen in a long time.
[Kill Count 3: 2m/1f]
Tommy wakes up violently in the police station - still locked up.
Garris comes in with the Forest Green Camp Counselors: his daughter Megan [Jennifer Cook from V], Sissy [Renee Jones - Days of Our Lives, 21 Jump Street 2x2 with Josh Richman], Paula [Lizabeth’s sister!], and Cort [21 Jump Street 3x16] They are concerned about Darren and Lizabeth, who are missing. Garris repeats the cop’s mantra - I don’t care.
The kids arrive today.
Tommy says Jason is out there and something may have happened to them. I love that he doesn’t say it out loud like he doesn’t want to put it out into the universe.
Magan sees Tommy and goes into lust overdrive. Garris, her father, warns her to stay away from him, and that he’s dangerous.
Tommy states he’s not dangerous. He just continues to warn them about about Jason.
Sissy asks if he means the “Jason of Camp Blood?” Tommy confirms this but Garris firmly denies it, then usher the kids out.
Garris was going to call the hospital to get them to come collect Tommy but decides instead to checks notes arm himself heavily and drive him out to the edge of his jurisdiction and leave him stranded on the side of the road... ok kool.
The cemetery caretaker, Martin [Bob Larkin], is really under a lot of stress - and covers Jason’s grave. “Why’d they have to go and dig up Jason? [stares right into the camera] Some folks have a strange idea of entertainment.”
The counselors have gone grocery shopping. Paula is worried about Lizabeth and Darren. But they are otherwise having fun.
According to Megan their parents told them Jason was a legend... this happened 6 years ago... you all were 12 y/o...? REALLY giving hypnocil. What’s the point of this being an urban legend at this point? Like did anyone tell their kids Ted Bundy was only a myth?
The kids arrive at camp. OMFG a summer camp movie with actual children. That’s just so crazy it may work!
THE PAINT BALL SCENE! Infamous!
A group is out paintballing: Burt, Stan, Larry, Katie, and Roy
[Kill Count 8: 6m/2f]
The sexist smiley face kill and Jason looking at his still attached arm on the
machete is SO. FUCKING. HILARIOUS! The triple decapitation! Are you kidding!!!
Tommy speeds up and goes to the cemetery to prove his dumbass resurrected Jason... while running from Sheriff Shooty-McGee and Deputy Dick. They arrest him after a pretty brutal tackle - it’s a good action sequence. And... whoops Martin covered the grave back up thus erasing the evidence. RIP Hawes.
“Wherever the red dot goes, ya bang!” - DUDE calm the fuck down! I don’t know who’s more stressed Tommy or Marin...
Garris leaves Tommy at the end of Forest Green with a wild threat. Ok I’m not sure which of them needs therapy more.
The teens are being camp counselors. And I’m with the kid, you gotta be kidding. What the fuck is Cort talking about.... ?
Stephen and Annette are out having a nighttime picnic... is that a thing?Marin is stumbling about the woods trying to find his way home. Jason kills him
with his bottle of alcohol.
Stephen and Annette hear Martin’s scream. He goes to look and sees Jason killing Martin... weird. He grabs Annette and they run away to his motorcycle. Jason stabs them both with his machete.
[Kill Count 11: 8m/3f]
See Campers sleeping... one little girl has Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos/No Exit. Jason has returned to the camp.
Sissy and Paula play a game called Camp Blood. I think this game actually works. I’d play.
Paula is concerned but is interrupted by a kid, Nancy, screaming - she had a dream,
“it was real, like on tv.”
Cort is getting it on in an RV with Nikki [Darcy DeMoss] to a song - (I’m No) Animal by Felony.
The RV loses power and they drive away a little freaked.Cort is a terrible driver. Shiiiit Cort. Damn this girl is SO LA. LOL.I’m a Teenage Frankenstein by Alice Cooper comes on and it’s amazing.
Jason is in the RV. he kills Nikki in the bathroom then stabs Cort... by stabbing the driver in the side of the head. Ok. The RV tips over and slides. Jason comes out the side/now top of the burning RV... it’s a great shot.
[Kill Count 13: 9m/4f]
Megan and Garris argue.I can’t stand either of them.
Deputy Dick called in, he “found what’s left of those counselors and it looks like someone did em in using Jason’s old MO.” Did Jason have an MO...?
Garris thinks Tommy is the killer. I mean that’s reasonable but he’s not. He tells Megan to stay there. Alone.
Tommy tries to call Sheriff Garris. Ok he has a death wish. TOMMY why are you so dumb! Jfc.
Luckily he gets Megan.
I love all the shots we get of Jason just like hiking. He’s a real nature lover.
Garris and other officers find a lot of bodies. Garris is doing actual cop stuff, he wants roadblocks. He’s out for blood, Tommy’s blood!
Sissy’s jersey looks like a Redwings one...? That could be a reach. It does have her surname on it.
Jason picks Sissy up through the open window and pulls her literally out of her slippers then twists her head entirely off and looks at it like, oh did I do that? Huh?
[Kill Count 14: 9m/5f]
Jason’s just like walking around with Sissy’s headless body. A kid sees it and is traumatized for life.
Megan picks up Tommy. She’s more assertive than him. But he’s a man with a plan!
They run into a roadblock so Megan shoves his face in her crotch to hide him while she speeds away. I don’t see how anything could go wrong.
The cops chase after them to a Alice Cooper song.Action movies go! (also day for night shots don’t look too bad). They eventually are cut off by Sheriff-Daddy and his boom stick
Little girl is walking around with Jason’s bloody machete... smart, logical, like that thinking kid.
Tommy is arrested - Garris is waiting for the authorities in Carpenter to get there. Garris wants Megan to stay at the station.
Tommy is desperately trying to convince Garris it wasn’t him. Point: Tommy was with Megan when Cort and Nikki were killed. But, Garris isn’t taking chances.
Paula tucks the kid into bed. Annnnnd Jason is watching through the window.
I love the blue lighting in this movie. The woods look absolutely good.
And Jason kills Paula - we hear he scream, see blood splatter on the window, see Puala thrown through the window (fuckin Big Glass at it again!), then he pulls her back through the window! O.O
[Kill Count 15: 9m/6f]
Tommy and Megan shenanigans - they get the better Deputy Dick because as he well knows, “wherever the red dot goes, ya bang!” They lock him up and leave.
They go to Camp Forest Lake.
Tommy’s plan is to get drown him where he originally died in Crystal Lake. Ok 1) what? 2) when did you decide that? 3) you idiot.
Garris and cops go to Camp Forest Green to tell the other teen counselors that Lizbeth and Darren are dead. He finds a blood bomb went off in the room. Like it’s PAINTED in blood. Jason what did you do to Paula?!!?
Jason throws a knife and stabs a cop in the head.A kid runs out afraid - a cop helps but Jason shows up and crushes his head.
[Kill Count 17: 11m/6f]
The kid runs into Garris who actually comforts her and leads the boys to safety. Huh. ok. Not bad. He instructs the kids to lay under the beds and don’t move until he comes back.
Kid: What do you think? Kid 2: I think we’re dead meat. Kid 2: Real dead meat! Kid: So what were you going to be when you grew up? He goes - with a shotgun - to look around.
Jason finds him. It’s a stand off. Sadly Garris only brought a shot gun to a Jason fight. He does get a shot off knocking Jason down. Two shots. Three shots. Pulls another gun - a revolver - he gets four more shots before running into the woods.
Megan and Tommy show up. Tommy begins working on his plan.
Garris stops Jason from going after Megan. Well he tries. Instead Jason fold him him half hamburger style.
[Kill Count 18: 12m/6f]
Tommy goes out on a boat with a rock and chain...
Jason busts into the cabin with the kids, then busts out through a window. [BIG GLASS! Come on! You can’t tell me this isn’t a thing!]
Tommy lures Jason out to the lake. Jason walks out into the lake no problem. So can he swim or not? Is the lake dangerous for him or not? What is this plan!?! Where is the sense?
Did Tommy just call Jason a pussy?
Tommy lights the lake on fire. Why? For what reason? To get Jason to surface?
They fight on the boat then underwater.
Jason strangles Tommy. Megan has to go rescue his dumb ass.
Then she has to fight Jason. She turns the boat motor on and cuts Jason... somewhere... I’m a little unclear. Maybe his neck breaks?
Megan gets back to shore breathes life back into Tommy who says, “it’s over, it’s over, Jason’s home.”
CUT TO: day shot, calm day at the lake, Jason underwater (clearly not effed up by a boat motor), his eye opens!
Que Alice Cooper song - He’s Back, The Man Behind the Mask.
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