Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

Sometimes episodes of our video series WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? look at movies that didn’t turn out so well, and we try to figure out why. Other times, we dig into the behind-the-scenes stories of films that turned out to be beloved classics. We’re doing the latter in the new episode, which can be seen in the embed above. In this one, we’re looking at the making of Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (watch Jason Lives at THIS LINK, buy the Friday the 13th Blu-ray collection HERE) – one of the most popular entries in the Friday the 13th franchise, and the movie I credit with making me a fan of the horror genre. To find out what happened behind the scenes on this one, check out the video!

Written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI has the following synopsis:

Years ago, Tommy Jarvis killed infamous hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees, and the intensity of the experience has landed him in a mental institution. To end his torment and achieve a level of closure, Tommy escapes from the hospital and heads to the graveyard where Jason is buried, intending to dig up the body and cremate it. But, before this total annihilation can occur, a freak electrical accident resurrects Jason from the dead, and the terror begins anew.

Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan, Renee Jones, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Vincent Guastaferro, Tony Goldwyn, Nancy McLoughlin, and Ron Palillo star, with C.J. Graham as the iconic Jason Voorhees.

This is what the WTF Happened to This Horror Movie series is all about:

Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster, but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

The Jason Lives episode of WTF Happened to This Horror Movie was Written by Cody Hamman, Edited by Juan Jimenez, Narrated by Jason Hewlett, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Some of the previous episodes of the show can be seen below. To see more, head over to our JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!