"Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter"

[jtguy7908]

Hi all,
In my opinion, "Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter" was the last Friday the 13th movie released before the series started "losing it's touch." Although it doesn't quite live up to parts one, two, and three, it's still better than the ones that were released after it. It has decent acting, especially from Kimberly Beck who plays heroine "Trish Jarvis," an interesting new setting, a hauntingly eerie score, and some great killings. My rating is a B+. What does everyone else think of "Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter"?

- jtguy7908
P.S. I have a fan site dedicated to Kimberly Beck, the actress who played "Trish Jarvis" in it. Please visit it at http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/kimberlybeck/index.html and tell me what you think.

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[teenkiller]

One of my favorite movies ever. Its my second favorite after a tie for first by parts 2 and 5. JASON had some great kills in this one. The corkscrew and the dude who got jammed in the nuts and lifted on the ground come to mind. I think JASON is definitley a little more darker, meaner, and cold blooded in this one. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[stevereno]

any movie with corey feldmen is a good movie

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Hans, wihout Franz]

Couldn't agree with you more dude. I thought the final chapter would be a good bow out for Jason. Haven't seen Jason X yet, I guess he just won't ever go away.

[Haddonfield]

this one certainly has many good moments. of course the FX are the best in the series thanks to the master. The end is just flat out fantastic and the best moment in any Jason movie i feel. Its a darker movie than part 3. much in the vein of the first two. but i find myself getting bored too often when i watch it...maybe ive see it too many times but there seems to be too many pointless scenes. guess you could say that about every horroh movie. the "hippy chick" eating the bannana is a highlight for sure...brutal...

i give it 5/10

[Antonio]

FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 4: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) Directed by Joseph Zito. The producers of the "Friday The 13th" franchise were obviously hoping to cash in on the box-office success of the first three installments of the slasher series when they filmed this sequel in 1984. Don't let the title fool you, because the legendary character of Jason Voorhees was resurrected in at least five more sequels (Part 10, "Jason In Space" was released in 2002). The fun begins again at Crystal Lake, New Jersey, when a presumed dead Jason escapes from the local morgue and returns to his old stomping grounds for more stalking, slashing, stabbing, impaling, etc. (you get the picture). Part 4 centers around the Jarvis siblings, Trish (Kimberly Beck, the film's heroine, who starred in the now defunct 80's CBS soap "Capitol"), and Tommy (played by a 12-year-old Corey Feldman during his pre-drug days), who live near Camp Blood (wouldn't they have moved away after the first mass murder in 1980?) with their divorced mother (Joan Freeman). A group of 20-somethings portraying horny, nubile teenagers rent the summer house next door, with Jason in hot pursuit. Also along for the ride is Erich Anderson as Rob, the brother of one of Jason's past victims who is planning to hunt the crazed madman in the surrounding woods. The film plays out as expected, with the entire cast being killed off one-by-one in stylishly gruesome ways, with Beck and Feldman giving old Jase a dose of his own bad medicine in the film's finale. At least the filmmakers tried with this one. The casting director scores the biggest brownie points for reeling in the series' best supporting cast (with Part One being close runner-up). The afore-mentioned Anderson and Freeman are very good in their roles, as are Judie Aronson, Peter Barton, Crispin Glover, Alan Hayes, Barbara Howard, Lawrence Monoson, and sexy real-life twins Camilla and Carey More. The film really scores with Beck and Feldman as the leads. Beck is the last of the great "final girls" (following in the footsteps of her three excellent predecessors: Adrienne King, Amy Steel and Dana Kimmell). Feldman's Tommy is one of the more fleshed-out (pun fully intended) characters the series has ever seen: horror movie aficionado-turned vigilante. The film's major flaws are the by-the-numbers storyline and murder sequences, and a pretty boring villain in Jason. Overall, this film was enjoyable when I first saw it in high school, but upon viewing it years later as an adult, I was disappointed. Although this may not have been the official final chapter, it was the last of the decent "Friday The 13th" films. My grade: B-

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