Friday the 13th Part 6 : Jason Lives

Alternate titles : Jason Lives : Friday the 13th Part 6

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Friday the 13th Part 6 : Jason Lives Tommy Jarvis returns again (played this time by Thom Mathews), but so does Jason in this increasingly long series of slasher films.

Still plagued with nightmares about Jason returning from the grave, Tommy and his friend Hawes dig up Jason's grave, intending to destroy the body and thereby preventing him from ever coming back. But unfortunately for Tommy and even more so for his friend, instead of finding a decaying corpse they find a very well rested Jason.

Needless to say, the local police don't believe Tommy's story about Jason coming back to life and going on another rampage and lock him up. Meanwhile Jason returns to his old stomping ground, now renamed Camp Forest Green and quickly picks up where he left off. Slaughtering the counsellors and anyone else he happens to come accross (some company execs find they picked the wrong day to go paintballing).

But Tommy, aided by the Sheriff's daughter, thinks he knows how to stop him once and for all (at least until the next movie that is) by returning him to his original resting place, but that's going to be no easy task...

Noticably lighter in tone that the previous films, having been made as a black comedy. Overall this is a much better sequel than Part 5, but it is far from being the best in the series, with most of the killings having to be toned down at the insistence of the US censors who were getting overly stringent at the time.

But even so, this is still a really fun film and despite the black humour still manages to fit in line with the other sequels and features an excellent Hard Rock score with songs by Alice Cooper.

Overall Marks : 6/10.

Terrifying Trivia

Director Tom McCloughlin also directed the horror film "Mausoleum" (AKA One Dark Night) starring Meg Tilly. He also directed several episodes of the spin off Friday the 13th TV series.
The camp used in this film was "Camp Daniel Morgan", located in Covington, Georgia.
The caretaker of the graveyard was originally scripted as being Jason's father, but this plot line was dropped and never used. Although it does remain in the novelisation.
The film was VERY heavily censored at the insistence of the US ratings board to avoid an NC17 certificate. Virtually every single death was shortened and trimmed of gore, most notably the death of Tommy's friend Allen Hawes (Ron Palillo) during the intro. There was also originally a shot showing the 3 paintballers having their heads decapitated at the shoulders and Sissy's bloody cabin interior had more blood, with guts and entrails running down the walls.
John Shepard from Part 5 was asked to return as Tommy Jarvis, but as he'd become a prominent member of his local church, he declined as he felt that appearing in another gory horror film wouldn't put him in good stead with his fellow parishioners.
When the film was shown on BBC1 in the UK, most of the gore was trimmed, but it contained an additional scene, showing deputy Rick locked in the prison cell, banging on the window, calling for help after Tommy and Megan drive off.
Thom Mathews also appeared in the first 2 "Return of the Living Dead" films.
Dan Bradley the stunt co-ordinator was originally chosen to play Jason, but after seeing some of the initial footage Paramount disliked his "bulky" build. CJ Graham, who was working in a Night Club at the time, was subsequently hired as the director spotted him and thought his physique would be perfect. Though he had no stunt experience he had been in the military, so could follow directions.
Director Tom McCloughlin kept the coffin and tombstone from Jason's grave as souvenirs, the coffin is on display at his house and the tombstone is mounted in his back garden, which constantly upsets the guy who comes to read the meter.
The scene with the graveyard caretaker and courting couple on the motorbike getting killed were added after filming had finished as they were well within budget and producer Frank Mancuso wanted to put the money to good use by upping the body count.