Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Anyone else ever notice that Jason's pant cuffs look like someone snipped them up with scissors? Anyway, onto this movie. This one doesn't really focus on Jason as much as other films do. To me it's more like the movie Carrie. This girl has some kind pf psychic powers and somehow, accidentally brings Jason back to life. You know, you'd think after 57839209 people dead from Jason's hands, they would realize that he's impossible to kill, cut him up, burn the pieces and bury each little bit in different COUNTRIES to keep him from coming back, but no, idiotic humans at their finest. I mean, it's a decent horror movie but its almost as if its not part of the Friday the 13th series. I dunno, its worth the watch definitely but it kinda threw me off.

I wanted to give this movie a 10 star, it was very good until the ending when she brought her daddy out of the water. I thought that was dumb. Almost as if a child came up with that idea. Jeez!

It's night and today is Friday the 13th (May 2016), a special day for us horror fans, and I started my triple feature watching this seventh chapter, which is my fave in the series. I remember watching a few scenes from this movie when I was little. Then I started watching them when I was 13. I'm a huge Jason fan, and this sequel, along with part 8, was the hardest to find. They didn't have it in any of my local video stores. In 2011, I finally found it online. Friday the 13th, The Ultimate Collection, includes 8 films with tons of features. When I saw it for the first time, I was just amazed with the story line. Horror legend Kane Hodder, in his first performance as Jason, faces a teenager, Tina Shepard, who has telekinetic powers, played by the gorgeous Lar Park Lincoln. She's a magnificent actress and my no. 1 heroine in the series. Just simply incredible, the characters, and especially the climax, with awesome stunts by Kane, and I really love the frightening detail look they did for Jason!!! Love the entire franchise, but this one has something special about it, and that's the reason it's my fave.

An extremely tedious retread of the tired formula which proved to be the last gasp for "teenagers in the woods" stalk-and-slashery. From then on the series was forced to move in different directions to retain interest but it wasn't long before the audience died away altogether. For the first hour this is lamentable, with boring teenagers, moronic humour, and a sappy romantic sub-plot between two central characters. It's only when a couple of the teenagers are remaining that you can put names to the faces; otherwise they're completely interchangeable and cardboard cut-outs as usual.There's a black couple with a predictably short life-span; an ugly duckling who becomes beautiful and bites it; a flirt who cruelly plays with the men; a sci-fi geek who lives in a fantasy world; a bland guy who turns out to be unexpectedly resourceful and all manner of other boring people. Hell, they even re-use the old "car breaks down" routine from one of the previous unmemorable instalments. The only actor of interest in this film is Terry Kiser, and judging by his credentials he was particularly strapped for cash the year this was made. Kiser puts in a good performance as a corrupt doctor using the heroine's telekinetic abilities for his own benefit, and his acting sticks out a mile from all the other efforts here. I especially liked the bit where, attacked by Jason, he throws a female victim at his opponent instead in order to escape! Hey, it's only human nature...The death scenes here manage to be quite creative in places, with Jason picking up all manner of garden tools to do his business - I especially liked the hedge-trimmer scene, which was definitely one of the film's highlights. In other moments he bashes a sleeping-bag clad victim into a tree, crushing her, and pokes out other people's eyes. Heads are decapitated, faces slashed off and there are more impalings than you can shake a stick at. Sadly the BBFC butchers have been at this film again, so all of the gore is kept offscreen, resulting in a very pointless and hollow movie.Directed by John Carl Buechler, better known for his special effects work, this has a lethargic pace up until the final twenty minutes where it actually becomes quite good. The final battle is between the heroine, a CARRIE-esque girl with telekinetic skills which she uses to fend Jason off time and time again. In fact it's quite comical. Jason gets electrocuted, impaled with a dozen nails, and burnt alive before he is finally dragged back into the icy waters of the lake for (hopefully) eternity. The special effects are quite impressive here, especially in Jason's "rotted" makeup which has bits of spine and bone protruding from his severely battered body. The unmasking scene also manages to be fairly frightening for a brief instant. All over, the last twenty minutes of this film are worthwhile, but fast-forward over the build-up - or you'll be severely bored.