Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
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| Directed by | Adam Marcus |
| Produced by | Sean S. Cunningham, Debbie Hayn-Cass |
| Written by | Jay Huguely, Adam Marcus, Dean Lorey |
| Starring | Kane Hodder |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | August 13, 1993 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,500,000 (estimated) |
| Preceded by | Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan |
| Followed by | Jason X |
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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is a slasher film. It was released on August 13, 1993. It is the ninth installment in the Friday the 13th film series and the first one to be distributed by New Line Cinema.
Much like the earlier installment, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the film sports a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2006) by two films. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series.
The film is not regarded highly by fans. While appreciation is given for attempting to do something different, it came at the cost of the continuity that held Paramount's films together (an example would be that none of the previous eight films make mention of Jason having a sister). Many have also mocked the concept of Jason's new ability of possession, seeing it as too reminiscent of The Hidden, with an additional complaint going to having too little of Jason in the film, as he appears only in the opening and closing scenes. It is, along with A New Beginning and Jason Takes Manhattan, one of the most criticized entries.
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[edit] Plot summary
It is a normal night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. He gets blown to pieces. But when his grisly remains are sent to a morgue, the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and begins to eat it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can he be reborn, and that only through a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman to save her and their baby. For she learns that her mother was none other than Jason's unknown sister, and that in order to save her baby from the Voorhees curse, she must take up her birthright to send Jason to Hell once and for all.
[edit] Cast
- John D. LeMay .... Steven Freeman
- Kari Keegan .... Jessica Kimble
- Kane Hodder .... Jason Voorhees/Guard Outside of Exam Room
- Steven Williams .... Creighton Duke
- Steven Culp .... Robert Campbell
- Erin Gray .... Diana Kimble
- Rusty Schwimmer .... Joey B.
- Richard Gant .... Coroner
- Leslie Jordan .... Shelby
- Billy Green Bush .... Sheriff Landis
- Kipp Marcus .... Randy
- Andrew Bloch .... Josh
- Adam Cranner .... Ward
- Allison Smith .... Vicki
- Julie Michaels .... Elizabeth Marcus F.B.I.
- James Gleason .... Agent Abernathy
- Dean Lorey .... Assistant Coroner
- Tony Ervolina .... FBI Agent
- Diana Georger .... Edna, Josh's girlfriend
- Adam Marcus .... Officer Bish
- Mark Thompson .... Officer Mark
- Brian Phelps .... Officer Brian
- Blake Conway .... Officer Andell
- Medelon Curtis .... Officer Ryan
- Michelle Clunie .... Deborah, the dark-haired camper
- Michael B. Silver .... Luke, the boy camper
- Kathryn Atwood .... Alexis, the blonde camper
- Jonathan Penner .... David (workprint only)
[edit] Trivia
- In the Voorhees home, the Necronomicon from the Cthulhu Mythos and The Evil Dead trilogy is seen sitting on a table.
- In a corner, the crate from the short story The Crate from the movie Creepshow can be seen.
- John D. LeMay also appeared in the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series, making him one of only two actors to appear in both the film series and the television series. The other actor is John Shepherd, who played Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.
- The first film (not including A New Beginning, where Roy Burns is the killer) to not show Jason's face to the audience, as his mask is only shed after being sucked into Hell, leaving it to lay in the dirt. With the exception of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, the films up to this point had an unmasking scene in which the audience is shown Jason's face in the climax.
- The film features Kane Hodder's only other performance in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides Freddy Krueger's arm in the final scene.
- Contrary to popular belief, Freddy's hand coming up and pulling down Jason's mask in the final shot was not meant to be a set-up to the long-awaited Freddy vs. Jason. By the filmmakers' own admission, it was meant to be nothing more than a sight gag, New Line's original monster welcoming in their newest acquisition. This unintentional crossover extends to the Evil Dead prop used in the film, as the K.N.B. team had just come off Army of Darkness and director Sam Raimi lent it to the filmmakers. The Necronomicon was not meant to have any significance to the Voorhees legacy, but its presence has unwittingly led to fan-based rumours of bringing Ash into a future film.
- The film was released 13 years after the original Friday the 13th.
- The Voorhees name is misspelled on the mailbox of the family home as "Vorhees".
- The original title of the movie was Friday the 13th Part IX: The Dark Heart of Jason Voorhees
- Topps Comics released a three issue comic book adaptation of the film in 1993. The comic books, written by Andy Mangels, were adapted from the film's shooting script and, as a result, contain several scenes not seen in the actual film. Topps Comics also had Jason make a brief cameo appearance in their Satan's Six title, in which Jason is seen travelling through limbo, immediately after the events of the film.
- The circumstances under which the FBI mounted the sting operation that 'killed' Jason at the beginning of this movie are revealed in the novel Hate-Kill-Repeat, where Jason's existence is publicly confirmed after he single-handedly slaughters most of the people in the Phoenix Heights Hotel.
- This chapter is known for spawning numerous books - "Mother's Day" and at least four others. These particular books instead use the mask as source (almost as though Jason is a demon that can body hop as this movie seems to suggest) and take individuals that stumble on the mask and make the people of the vessel and tool for Jason.
- The following cuts were made (some of the cuts were made in order to avoid an "NC-17" rating from the MPAA):
- At the beginning, before Jason gets blown up by the FBI, the female cop shoots Jason in the head.
- The fighting scene between Steven and Jason is longer. At one point Steven hides inside the climbing rack as Jason tries to grab him.
- We see Duke being brought in the police station. Duke is brought in, having been found standing over the empty morgue cabinet that had held Diana's (Erin Gray) body. What was he doing there? "Trying to steal the body, obviously," Duke explains irritably, "but you f**ked up and let someone get to it before I could....if it's where I think it is, you're in a world of s**t."
- In the morgue we see the coroner get some instruments from a cabinet.
- More dialogue in the Duke interview.
- The original ending where Steven kicks the knife in Jason's chest. Besides the giant hands there is also a creature which pulls down Jason into the ground.
- Jason in the body of Josh kills the boyfriend of one of the waitresses after we see some dialogue between them and she leaves. Jason bangs the guy's head against a sink.
- After the creature escapes Randy's body we see Duke fighting with it before it falls down the basement. Then there is a different dialogue where Steven asks Duke if the Voorhees which Jason has to be reborn trough must be alive.
- Another dialogue where Robert Campbell talks on the phone in the Voorhees house while Steven hides in the closet. He says Jessica can never shut up about her family and he runs down the whole Voorhees family tree.
- For the final edit, the character David (Jonathan Penner) and his murder were completely cut from the film. In bootleg prints, the character is dispatched by Deputy Josh (Andrew Bloch), who has been possessed by the Jason entity and who bashes David's head against a faucet.
- Scenes in director's cut that do not appear in the R-rated version or the TV Version:
- The sex scene is longer and more graphic.
- Much more gory violence; nearly all characters cough up blood as they are being killed, the shot of the tent pole being rammed through the girl, the shot of the chubby guy's hand being broken off, the shot of Robert(Jason) crushing the girl's head and blood spurting out (she then says "go to hell"), Coroner(Jason swings the scalpel more times at the girl outside the tent.
- The shot of the creature crawling up Diana's dress was also omitted from the R-rated version.
- After Jason leaves Josh's body, his jaw can be seen on the floor as it melts. This was cut for the "R" rated version. The "R" version also omits most of the heart-eating scene near the beginning.
- Scenes in the network television version that do not appear in director's cut or the R-rated version:
- A scene in the cafe in which Steven makes a mock-prank phone call.
- Addional dialogue in Robert and Duke's interview scene.
- Additional dialogue in the scene where Randy and Steven fight on the roadside and pull guns on one another.
- Extended scene in diner before Diana meets Duke.
- Brief scene of Randy cuffing Steven before taking him to his cell.
- Ed (chief) is introduced to Robert and tells him not to exploit Jessica as Jason's sister in the media.
- Extended scene of Jessica giving Vicki the baby.
- Extended scene of Jessica walking through her darkened house after Jason cuts the power. She is seen slipping on the stairs and cutting her foot.
- Slightly extended scene of Vicki entering the diner with the baby.
- The following appear in the workprint version only;
- Alternate dialogue in the cell scene with Steven and Duke.
- After Steven escapes from the police station, there is a scene showing him hide outside the diner as Vickie enters it.
- More dialogue in the scene where Ward finds Steven in the back of the diner adoring his baby.
- Before Jessica goes outside her house where Jason (in Robert's body) attacks her, she is shown inside the dark house looking around the living room, and jumping at the sudden lightning storm.
- The creature that Duke fights with has grown to become a full-sized demon before Duke throws it into the basement.
- In the original cut of the film, Vicki has a boyfriend. Several scenes were cut but a few are shown in the TV Versions. One scene shows Vicki with Jessicas baby at her house and her boyfriend walks in. She explains why the baby's there. Another seen is when Robert(Jason in reality) goes to Vicki's place in search of the baby. Vicki left already to the diner with the baby, so Jason kills Vicki's boyfriend out of frustration. Another seen is an extension of Vicki entering the diner, Vicki walks to the door to see a sign saying that the diner is closed for the day because of Diana's death. These scenes (except for the boyfriends death) can be seen on the DVD in the TV Alternate Scenes section.
- The original script by Jay Huguely featured Jason's brother Elias as the killer and included backstory about Pamela Voorhees' involvement in the occult. It was decided, however, that Jason needed to be the focus of the film, and Dean Lorey was brought in to re-configure the storyline. Hence, the brother was jettisoned, and the first name Elias was assigned to Jason's father.
- The camping scene with the ill-fated Luke, Deborah and Alexis, was not part of the original script. When test audiences in early 1993 complained about the lack of sex and teenaged characters, the scene was subsequently written and filmed during a new shoot.
[edit] External links
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at the Internet Movie Database
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Rotten Tomatoes
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Box Office Mojo
- Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site
| The Friday the 13th Series |
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| Films: Friday the 13th • Friday the 13th Part 2 • Friday the 13th Part 3 • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter • Friday the 13th: A New Beginning • Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan • Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday • Jason X • Freddy vs. Jason Major characters: Jason Voorhees • Pamela Voorhees • Tommy Jarvis • Roy Burns Other topics: Comics • List of Deaths • Timeline • Video Game |
