Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Jason lives is AWESOME Friday the 13th fun!!! Tommy Jarvis is older and very cool in this movie & from the excellent opening in that spooky graveyard with the lightening & the creepy atmosphere your hooked & it's such a fun thrill ride. Jason lives is EASILY one of my favourite of the EXCELLENT franchise!!! Friday the 13th franchise is the BEST Horror franchise ever & has the greatest fan base & this movie JASON LIVES is a huge fan favourite & i TOTALLY understand the love for this entry,it has a great atmosphere it has lots of fun characters & a really cool tough Sheriff Garris who is one of my favourite characters in the series along with CREIGHTON DUKE (Jason goes to hell) & Jason looks very cool & Tommy Jarvis is the best version of his character here,so yeah alot of love for a really special entry thats why it's the best one. TRULY A CLASSIC FRIDAY FILM & A CLASSIC SLASHER!!!

This is ridiculous. Lightning strikes already decayed Jason's body, which has been eaten by maggots for quite some time, and he rises from the grave to start a new killing spree. The premise itself has killed my will to watch this movie. Although pretty stupid, the franchise used to be somewhat realistic. What we see on the screen could really happen to anyone and that made this franchise scary. The moment already stupid story becomes also impossible to really happen, it stops being tense and frightening. In addition, there is no nudity and bunch of scenes look like they have been taken from a bad comedy, all of which makes "Jason Lives" one of the weaker parts of the "Friday the 13th" franchise. The only good things in this movie are the music of the legendary Alice Cooper and, although it mostly repeats what was already seen in the prequels, it also brings a couple of original ideas.5/10

Well, if there was any doubt to Jason being alive or dead before, this movie will put an end to that question. In this movie at least, and from then on,, Jason was definitely dead, and is now brought back to life. He's brought back by being dug up and struck by lightning, which was pretty cliche, but otherwise, I guess the movie is pretty much what you'd expect from a Friday the 13th film. Main issue I had is the literally, too dumb to even be alive police chief who seems to think someone is capable of killing another person while in jail. It as a relief at the end though. It's not a bad movie, another one full of blood and bull crap.

"I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."-Lizabeth, "Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI."Whelp, here you have it folks. Arguably the finest entry in the long-running "Friday the 13th" media franchise.Is it because it has the most hardcore, brutal kills of the series? Nope! Does it have the most bouncing bodies skinny-dipping in the water? Not at all! Does it have the most intense portrayal of psycho-killer Jason? Not a chance!No, this film succeeds as the best in the series for one simple reason: fun. It's just flat-out a fun movie. Thanks in no small part to a wickedly self-aware, satirical script courtesy writer/director Tom McLoughlin, filled to burst with savage meta-humor years before meta-humor was really a thing. Kevin Willaimson... eat your heart out! OK, I kid... I love Kevin Williamson... but McLoughlin did kind of beat him to the punch 10 years before "Scream" further revolutionized the idea of self-aware slasher-flicks.Tommy Jarvis (now portrayed by Thom Mathews in a role that more-or- less ignores the troubled Jarvis of Part V) has had enough of living in fear. He has decided to face his troubled past once and for all by digging up the body of Jason Voorhees and burning it to symbolically conquer his childhood trauma. But a hilarious bolt of lightning (in a cute nod to "Frankenstein") accidentally brings the beast back to life, now as an unstoppable "Super-Zombie!" Uh, oh. Now Tommy must team with the gorgeous daughter of the local sheriff (Jennifer Cooke) and try and stop the hulking Jason from taking out a new group of camp- counselors who are overseeing a children's summer-camp at the former Camp Crystal Lake. (Now referred to as "Forest Green.) What follows is a surprisingly hilarious and sometimes creepy mixture of laughs and thrills, in a Hellish roller-coaster ride of mayhem.McLoughlin really seems in his element with this film. While his other work has been hit-and-miss, his keen sense of postmodern meta- humor jives well with the outlandish nature of the story. Nobody was going to be able to really take Jason coming back to life after all this time seriously... so the curve-ball of having the story border on self-parody helps make it a bit more appetizing and easier to digest. And thankfully, it lends to a general feeling of freshness throughout the whole film. We've seen this movie before five times... but not quite like this. Seeing characters acknowledging the outlandish nature of events, punctuating dialog with witty and humorous cutaway gags, and making Jason's kills less brutal and more Looney-Tunes-esque is just great fun and both a nice compliment and contrast to the previous films.It also helps that this film has some of the best characters and performances since Part III. (I still love you, Shelly!) Thom Mathews makes for a fun new Tommy Jarvis, who is both troubled but also very proactive, in a nice contrast to mopey-Tommy from the last film. Cooke is adorable and spunky as our lead heroine Megan, and though she doesn't serve much outside of a general love-interest who occasionally gets in on the action, you still really like her and root for her. David Kagen eats up the role of the grumpy Sheriff who is gruff but has a soft-spot for his kid. And even the generic Camp Counselor fodder characters portrayed by actors such as Kerry Noonan and Renée Jones are surprisingly likable. This film thankfully eschews the standard cliché of having to define characters exclusively by singular quirks, and everyone feels a bit more grounded and realistic. They're all more-or-less decent people, which helps us actually care when Jason starts knocking them off.Add to that a really effective score by series composer Harry Manfredini, some really good cinematography from DP Jon Kranhouse and some really slick visual direction, and you just have a good, solid, fun time all around. There's no sore thumbs in the production either in front of or behind the camera. They all work together to generate a well-oiled machine of madness that I can't help but love.I'm somewhat shocked to be giving this such a high rating, but I have to. "Jason Lives" is a 9 out of 10 as a horror fan. It's phenomenal entertainment, and it's self-aware sense of humor may even win over a few non-fans as well.