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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Movie Review

Friday the 13^th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 slasher film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Kimberly Beck and Corey Feldman. It’s a reasonably diverting sequel.

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“Holy Jesus jumping Christmas shit!“

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Presumed to be dead, Jason wakes up at the hospital and kills the doctor and the nurse before moving on to Camp Crystal Lake. When his killing spree begins, the Jarvis siblings decide to end things. The last movie in this franchise was so bad that this sequel actually ended up being serviceable. It’s of course nowhere near the quality of the original, but it’s similar to the quality of the second movie in my opinion.

The plot is tiresome of course and there is nothing that happens here that was in any way, shape or form original or truly memorable. With that being said, the characters elevated this sequel quite a bit, especially the main duo. I really liked Trish and Tommy. Their sibling dynamic was powerful and that final sequence was just a whole lot of fun.

Jason being mercilessly slashed and killed by this kid made for an instantly iconic conclusion that elevated the entire movie for me that was before that quite uninspired. Seeing his deformed face was also memorable and so was that entire third act with the chases, the stabs and the final kill. I just wished that the rest of the film was as interesting.

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Other characters were forgettable, the slasher scenes were far from creative, and the movie lazily repeated the sound and score from the previous flicks. The first half simply needed to have been better and more engaging. The film is also overly dark and uninspired in its cinematography while the dialogue and directing are both quite mediocre.