#29 - Friday the 13th part VI (1986)

I love horror movies!  But you knew that.  Friday the 13th is my favorite horror movies series!  Why, you ask? Well, I'm gonna tell ya!  One, the killer isn't a one-trick pony.  He evolves over the course of the movie series.  Hell, he's not even really IN the first movie (spoiler alert, his mother does all the killings in that movie), and he doesn't even put on his signature goalie mask until the third movie!  In additon to that, it's all about the woods, the wilderness, camping, all things I love.  

Friday the 13th, Part VI (1986) brings back Tommy Jarvis, Jason Voorhees' antithesis (played in part 4 by Corey Feldman).  Tommy has been in therapy for years after murdering Jason in part 4, and has finally out of the asylum.  First chance Tommy gets, he heads to Crystal Lake to dig up Jason's body and burn it, to be rid of his nightmares once and for all.  Unfortunately, the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray, and since there's no mice in this movie, Tommy Jarvis's plans quickly go awry!  The alternate version of this movie's title is Jason Lives! so that pretty much gives away what happens at the very beginning of this flick.

For those in the know, Jason (the killer) did actually die at the end of part 4 at the hands of Tommy Jarvis, making Tommy Jason's arch-nemesis, if you take the view that Jason Voorhees (the killer wearing with hockey mask) is actually the hero of this movie series (despite being the villain).  The killer in Part 5 was actually someone else (spoiler alert), a copycat killer.  So Jason is actually stone cold dead at the beginning of part 6, until Tommy Jarvis accidentally manages to re-create some Frankenstein-ian experiment and bring Jason back to life as an undead zombie!  :-o  Coolest parts about this movie are that Jason Voorhees has an actual grave in this one (so we know how to spell his damned name, for one thing) and that when he's brought back as an unkillable zombie, he's even stronger and more pissed off than he was in the first 4 movies (well, 3, if you consider that his mom did the killing in the first one).  No nudity in this movie that I can recall (unusual for a friday the 13th flick), but the Sheriff's daughter is pretty hot.  Interesting note on the casting in this movie, adult Tommy Jarvis is played by Thom Mathews, who also played "Freddy" in Return of the Living Dead (the year before this movie was released).  I caught Friday the 13 part 6 on IFC (cable channel) and there's a friday the 13th coming up in december, so they'll probably play it again then, too.  Friday the 13ts always seem to be rife with friday the 13th movies!

Okay, that's all for tonight, things to do, places to be!  :-D  Only two more reviews to go!  Halloween is almost here!  Hope everyone is having a good time, and Happy Halloween in case you're not around between now and then!  :-)