| 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 John D. LeMay Kari Keegan Allison Smith Steven Culp Steven Williams |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Bill Dill |
| Editing by | David Handman |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | August 13, 1993 |
| Running time | 87 min 91 min (director's cut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $16,900,000 (domestically) |
| Preceded by | Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan |
| Followed by | Jason X |
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is a 1993 slasher film, and the ninth installment in the Friday the 13th film series and the first sequel to be distributed by New Line Cinema.
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Through unexplained resurrection, the undead serial killer Jason Voorhees is back at Crystal Lake and on the hunt again, but this time the brutal killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. As he's about to kill a woman (undercover FBI agent Elizabeth Marcus), the FBI springs a trap. After gunning him down, they launch an explosive, and Jason gets blown to pieces. His grisly remains are sent to a morgue, where the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and begins to eat it, causing himself to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. He then proceeds to kill the Coroner's Assistant and a pair of FBI agents.
As the dark spirit jumps from host to host via a demonic, snake-like creature, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that only members of Jason's bloodline can kill him and he'll return to life if he's killed by someone outside of his family. The only relatives of Jason are his half-sister Diana Kimble, her daughter Jessica, and Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica and the main protagonist Steven Freeman.
Jason kidnaps policeman Josh after killing three campers and his wife Edna, and takes him to the Voorhees house, where he shaves Josh and transfers his heart into his body. Jason makes his way to Diana's house. Diana shoots Jason in the head, but it is no use. Steven, having been asked to meet Diana at the house, bursts in and stabs Jason with a fireplace poker. Diana is killed with a knife sharpener and Jason escapes. Steven is falsely accused and arrested for Diana's murder. Duke reveals Jessica, the baby's mother and Steven's ex-girlfriend's relation to Jason, and Jason possessing anyone to get to Jessica or Stephanie. Steven escapes from jail, with the reluctant help of Officer Randy Parker, a friend of Steven's.
Meanwhile, Jessica is dating American Casefiles reporter Robert Campbell. Steven goes to the Voorhees house, but falls through rotten boards. Robert comes inside the upstairs room, and reveals his plans to "spice up" Jason's unknown return from death with his theft of Diana's body from the morgue, also boasting about having sex with Jessica. Jason bursts in and transfers his heart into Robert. Josh, due to being possessed by Jason, melts into a puddle of flesh and blood. Jason leaves, with Steven in pursuit. Jason attempts to be reborn through Jessica at her mother's house, but is disrupted by Steven, who hits him and takes Jessica into his car. Steven runs over Jason, but obviously does no damage, other than to Robert's body. Jessica does not believe Steven and throws him out of the car. Jessica makes it to the police station, where she is dressed and comforted by Ed Landis, the town's sheriff and her mother's boyfriend, and the other cops present. Steven is told of Jessica's location and asks Randy to arrest him after a scuffle and gun draw between the two.
Jason barges into the station, throws Officer Landis, and kills three others, two of them by head bashing. Steven and Jessica, Jessica now believing Steven and Duke's story, run to Joey B.'s diner to grab the baby, but are held at gunpoint by Joey, who still believes Steven to be guilty of Diana's murder. Duke, in the meantime has escaped and takes the baby from the back of the greasy spoon. Jason kills Joey's son Ward, and comes into the diner. One innocent patron is killed, accidentally shot by Vicki when trying to shoot Robert. Joey's husband and cook, Shelby attempts to kill Jason by shooting him, as do Joey and Jessica's waitress friend Vicki with guns. Shelby is scalded to death in a fat-fryer by Jason and left to sizzle on the hot griddle. Joey hits him on the back, and in return Jason elbows her in the face, literally bashing her face in and knocking a dent in her mouth. Vicki seemingly manages to defeat Jason with a barbecue skewer; Jason is not dead, however, and kills Vickie with the barbecue skewer.
Jessica meets up with Duke at the Voorhees house, who is holding her baby. An unseen officer makes his way into the diner, discovering the bodies, except for Robert's, which (possessed) leaps from the closet, and transfers his heart into the unseen officer's body (offscreen). Duke falls through the floor, and Jessica is confronted by Landis and Randy, who both survived, but one of them is possessed. Landis accidentally stabs himself with the magic dagger, which can be used by a Voorhees woman to send Jason to Hell (this is the bone dagger from The Evil Dead series) and Jessica drops the dagger. Randy, being the officer possessed, attempts to be reborn through Stephanie, but Randy's neck is severed with a machete by Steven. Jason's heart, which has now grown into a demonic infant, crawls out of Randy's neck, and makes its way into the basement, where it crawls into Diana's dead ovaries. Jason is reborn (complete with worksuit and hockey mask) and kills Duke, by crushing his back in a bearhug. Steven fights Jason, suffering multiple shovel hits and being thrown into a jungle gym. And as Jason is about to kill Steven, Jason is stabbed through the heart, releasing the tortured soul that Jason has accumulated throughout his massive killing spree. Giant hands pull the dying, struggling Jason down into the depths of hell.
The film ends with Steven and Jessica kissing and mending their relationship, along with the baby walking into the sunrise, and after Jason is defeated, Freddy Krueger's clawed glove grabs Jason's mask, and takes it to Hell.
The film was received poorly, getting a 33% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
The film opened in 1,355 theaters making $7.6 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film made $15.9 million, making it the third lowest grossing Friday movie.
A three-issue comic adaptation of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday written by Andy Mangels was published by Topps Comics. As the comics are based upon the original shooting script of the film, elements that were left out of the film are used in them. Topps also released a series of trading cards for the film.
The FBI sting that occurs at the beginning of the film is foreshadowed in the novel Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat, which takes place between the events of the seventh and eighth films. The epilogue of the book states that the FBI, upon discovering Jason Voorhees actually exists, have begun making plans to trap him and "send him straight to Hell"[2].
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