Thread by @midnitetease

Friday the 13th Part 4 doesn't exist. Because after 2 attempts to make the final Friday the 13th movie, they decided to put it right in the title: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

Let's hope it's a step up from the last iteration.

From :25 to 2:50 in, all of the previous movies are re-hashed. That's...better? I guess? Still seems completely unnecessary.

And considering this was meant to be the "final" film, they sure made that hockey mask *with* the axe cut very prominent in the title.

Waaaaaiiiiit...Corey Feldman is billed THIRD??? When was this again?

1987? Aww...crap. This is "obnoxious kid" Corey Feldman.

I've seen this one. I remember Feldman. I have a vague memory that it's very trope-ish and boring. Hope my memory is bad.

Crispin Glover? I don't even remember him in this movie...weird...

Pardon the lazy pronunciation tonight, my sinuses are really clogged...

And we pick up right where the previous movie left off. LITERALLY. And I don't buy for a minute that this is the same house and barn.

I'm sure that even when this movie first came out, the very first audience was just waiting for the moment Jason twitch, jumped up, yawned, whatever. Surely even in 1984 no one seriously thought Jason was dead at this point.

How I managed to type "1987" while *knowing* and *double-checking* it was "1984" I'll never understand.

Kinda clever filming the gurney scene from the head-end, yet not "Jason's eye view". Don't give it away (even though everyone knows), but keep it on eveyone's mind. Good use of tension.

Slimy hospital dead-body checker-inner suggests alone time with hot nurse. Right on cue, Jason twitches.

That one scene may have taken something that was only an accusation with patchy supporting evidence and branded it on slasher history.

"Non-marital sex? Not on my watch!"

Heh. I remember when the hottest thing on TV was aerobic exercise.

Saw. Now that was a good kill. Good start to a slasher movie.

Oh. And Jason's alive. As if you didn't know.

Second kill not as good. And then we cut to joggers. Joggers in the woods around Camp Crystal Lake. This place use to be way in the boonies, now EVERYBODY lives here.

He can't play his video games in his room because he needs a bypass patch cord. I can't for life of me figure out what that could possibly mean in any really life scenario. Hollywood-style computers have always been with us.

Also, teen daughter looks about 30.

OMG! Zaxxon was a real game, it was in fact a recently released game on many home systems when this movie was made, and was even the actual game Feldman was playing! That's unheard-of accuracy!

Waitaminute...is Corey Feldman the final girl in this movie?

Enter the cannon fodder.

Machete fodder, I guess.

If Mrs. Voorhees died in 1979, that means "present day" is actually 1979. Which means part 2 takes place in 1984, along with Part 3 and The Final Chapter; which all take place over the course of a few days.

So: 1957 - Jason doesn't actually die.
1958: 2
1979: 10
1984 (p.2): 9-10
(p.3): 13
(p.4): 2 so far.

Road-side attraction Mrs. Voorhees' Grave.

3 dead. Jason doesn't like hitchhikers.

I don't understand why they focused on the banana, though. Weird.

Mass Murderer's Body Missing, and no one runs out of the door, into the car, and leaves.

Well, they make it perfectly clear who the "virgin" is, but I'm pretty sure he's gonna die anyway.

This is the first Friday 13th that is in fact all about sex and getting killed.

People tend to forget that most early walkman/personal cassette decks could give you hip injuries if you actually clipped them to your belt.

That's a lot of nudity.

Huh. Tattoo covered by makeup.

Also, yeah; it's pretty clear now who the final girl is. They actually made it clear earlier, but I was hoping for something new.

Tommy Jarvis. So that's where that comes from.

Also, a random Rob has appeared.

Awkward white boy dance!

This may actually be the most awkward white boy dance ever.

Hm. I think it's possible the 80's ruined the little shred of coolness any white person could possibly have.

We should have just embraced the imagined computer-future-collective and become a new life form.

Think about it. What's still cool from the 80's? The computers and the computerization of the world.

I'm personally partial to womens' makeup and hair styles from the 80's, but that's probably just me.

Brooding awkward white boy! So 80's!!!!

Erm. This is turning nasty. Awkward white boy is definitely a serial killer in the making.

Hah! Slut-shaming! The girl bragging about using sex to control men (that used to be a feminist thing. Is it, still?) Is now pissed off that the guy she keeps around just for sex want to get with someone else. See? She just wants the D! Like a woman!

This 1984 horror movie sequel certainly has given me more to talk about. It's LOADED.

More toplessness in this move than any previous, and a ton of full dorsal nudity, but they've shied away from the full frontal this time. Managing that R rating was hard.

Good kill, but it would have been better if you just saw the knife tip suddenly pop out of her back while she screams, then withdraw, then the boat sinking. That would have been awesome.

Hm. The "watcher in the woods" shots aren't nearly as effective in this film.

Do they need to be, though? I mean, there's no mystery, anymore. But it was such a well-done thing in this series..."behind the tree" cam.

That's riiight...you could choose angst boy or dickwad, and your sister just jumped the claim on angst boy.

No, movie! You don't get to pretend that wasn't someone accidentally pointing the spotlight in the wrong direction! It whited out the screen!

She's dead, Paul.

And death awaits you on the other shore.

Or on the dock.

What did he get killed with?

Damn, this movie is dark.

Lighting-wise, I mean.

It's pretty light-hearted for a slasher movie.

Nightmare on Elm Street hadn't come out, let alone any of the sequels.

All these spotlights in the woods and yet I still can't see what's happening in most of the kill scenes.

Good kill. Showing it in shadow. Would have liked a cut to the kill itself, but he just stabbed another one with a stick-like thing.

That's Sudden Rob, not Jason.

Yep. It was.

HD!!! You can see the dried deodorant chunks in his armpit hair!!!

Lots uh sex in this here movie.

Where's the corkscrew?!?

WHAM!!!!

HAH that was great!

And a cleaver to the face! Nice! I froze it and looked; they worked really hard to make that effect good.

Another good kill. Jason climbs up on the window's overhang just in case whats-her-face comes to the window and pulls her out; throws her onto the car. Sure, it doesn't make sense, but we're solidly into Jason appears where murders need to happen, now.

The over-done lighting and saturated colors help set this in a world that's about the situation, almost as if it exists outside of time. This is what marks the transition of Jason to a supernatural killer. Resurrecting him from the dead just cements the deal.

Everything about this movie has linked Jason to a supernatural need and ability to murder teens while they have their sex party weekends. Jason hunts out hormones.

That this is presented in such a cohesive manner makes it the best movie since the first one.

Sudden Rob is Sandra's (from part 2) brother.

"She was a great kid."

You're not kidding, bud. (see twitter review of part 2 to understand this joke, if you don't)

Gah! More sex! It's like a soft-core porno!

Catholic High School Girls In Trouble!

Another great kill! How did Jason get behind the screen that fast? Doesn't matter.

You don't wrap up in the towel while the shower is running! (To be fair, I don't think the water was actually running in that shower.)

Oh. Maybe not. Water CAN run in that shower, so maybe it was.

Final girl is down to Sarah, 30-year-old sister, mom-who-may-be-dead-already, and Corey Feldman.

I like the kineticism of the shower kill, but it's not as great as the others.

Fantastic axe to the chest. So much better than in the last movie.

And the final girl is not Sarah. She just had sex, of course; she couldn't live. (A concept that wasn't concrete in this series until THAT KILL.)

Jeebus, RUN! Sudden Rob is screaming RUN! He's being murdered by Jason while screaming RUN! So RUN!

Kudos to 30-year-old sister: killer grabs her leg, and she just wailing on him with her machete. Good response.

Heh. Jason blocks 30-year-old sister in the house by covering every entrance with a dead body. Clever. The body laying across the threshold makes about as much sense as running away from wind in the last movie, but it's fine.

There goes Jason again: throwing dead bodies through windows to gain access. Better than just punching glass or chopping through with an axe.

They really tried with that hammer on a wire, but the handle wobbled after it hit; even though they tried to cut it fast.

One of the best "TV to head" I've seen. Not THE best. But it was good.

Huh. 30-year-old-sister is named Trish. I wonder if they mentioned it earlier. I don't remember hearing it.

Jason doing that old man run.

She's a really greater screamer. I buy it.

The slo-mo through the window shots are getting a bit egregious, though.

Plus, in HD, you can see the pads the stuntpersons are wearing for the stunts.

Trish is developing that hunters' instinct. Gotta know when the monster is standing right behind you.

Hey! A callback to "get a haircut!" Good job, movie!

Oooohhhhhh owwwwwwwww. Machete to the hand. That was a damn good effect. Tom Savini is a god.

OK, this is pushing it. I understand the "young Jason" idea to get his attention, but how the hell would Jason have any idea that he looked anything like that? Let alone that we're mixing the original continuity (dead Jason in the lake) with the retcon (Jason didn't die).

I mean, neat idea...it just doesn't work for me. Stretching disbelief a bit too far.

Whoa. Degenerative disease? Jason never looked like THAT before.

Tommy Jarvis kills Jason by cutting his head in half. No one's come back from that in this series. Except for that bizarre dream state story involving Mrs. Voorhees.

Jason twitches. The movie fades out with Tommy Jarvis cutting Jason to little bitty bits screaming "Die! Die!"

That was worth the "young Jason" thing.

The hospital scene was a pickup shoot, wasn't it?

Pure sequel bait. Tommy Jarvis is a killer now; with cold, dead, eyes.

Halloween 4 did it better.

Or rather, WOULD do it better...4 years later.

My memory about this movie was wrong. Or maybe my mind is just in a better place for it. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is great!

It doesn't try to continue to emulate (poorly) the first movie; instead focusing on refining the idea of the slasher.

Jason as something other than human is born here: not through supernatural means, but as a storytelling device. He is the exact monster this movie needs. Exactly as deadly and omniscient as he needs to be; just as vulnerable and human as he needs to be.

The Final Chapter manages to re-invent the series in a "what works best" format, then re-works Jason to fit the narrative, without actually re-writing the character into something radically different.

The effects are top notch, most of the kills are fantastic; and only a few bits fall flat. The Final Chapter definitely deserves re-watching, just as the first movie does.

Final Lore: The final chapter adds 14 kills.

Now I'm sure they'll take a while before shoving the requisite sequel out, right? I mean, this WAS The Final Chapter!