Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives ** (1986, Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen) – Classic Movie Review 8278

Writer-director Tom McLoughlin’s 1986 Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives starts with Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) returning to the graveyard to make sure serial teen killer Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally bringing him back to life as Jason rises from the grave like Dracula to terrify new youngsters at the now renamed summer camp where gruesome murders keep taking place. Can Tommy stop Jason’s killing spree?

Unpleasantly, children as well as teens are threatened in this sadistically nasty, brutal, repetitive and cynical shocker, though there might be a twinkle of black humour lurking somewhere in the mind of writer-director McLoughlin.

There is a fairly effective pre-credits sequence and James Bond spoof credits (of all things), and some effective suspense, scares and shocks throughout, and it is slick and glossy, but somehow even its slickness and glossy filming count against Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. C J Graham plays Jason.

Also in the cast are Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen as Sheriff Garris, Renee Jones, Kerry Noonan, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Ron Palillo, Vincent Guastaferro as Deputy Rick Cologne, Tony Goldwyn, Nancy McLoughlin, Alan Blumenfield, Ann Ryerson and Matthew Faison.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is directed by Tom McLoughlin, runs 87 minutes, is made by Paramount Pictures, Sean S. Cunningham Films and Terror Films Inc, is released by Paramount, is written by Tom McLoughlin, is shot by Jon Kranhouse, is produced by Don Behrns, is scored by Harry Manfredini and is designed by Joseph T Garrity.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, directed by John Carl Buechler, follows in 1988.

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