1990
17 kills
First Kill - 9 minutes
We baseball fans rely on stats for everything. We come to expect them. Sosa's only got 30 homeruns? Don't worry. We know he'll hit 50. Just like we always knew Boggs would hit .300 and Ripken would play in 162 games.
Well, in horror movies, we can sometimes rely on these stats and expect history to repeat itself. Jason Voorhies is a prime example. We know he's good for at least 15 kills per movie these days. Let's look at his career. 9 kills in each of the first 2 movies, some of which are credited to him mom, of course. Then in parts 3 and 4, he picks it up a little, slashing 12 in each one. Now, we were happy, content little movie-watchers in those days. But did Jason stop there?? Nope. He upped it to 17 kills in parts 5 and 6, slightly dropped to 15 in part 7, but returns to his peak level of 17 for this volume.
However, I do have one problem with this. See, in the past, Jason's had a limited amount of people to kill. People aren't always easy to find way out in the woods. Only so many ignorant kids could be skinny-dipping in the lake where you and you mother and countless others have died violent, gruesome deaths. But this time, he takes a boat to Manhattan. The big city! If he can kill there, well, he can... you get it.
The problem here is that there are people everywhere! If Jason wants to break a boom box, fine with me. But he better damn well kill those 4 kids when he's done with it. See, we expect 17 kills when there are only 18 characters to choose from. But when there are hundreds, even thousands, of innocent citizens, I'd expect no less than, oh, 450 or so. If Sosa had 3,966 at-bats each year, would we still settle for 50 homeruns?
Now, my cohorts are going to tell you this is one of the greatest horror movies ever. Some have given it 4 skulls! I will let you know that, when they rated this movie, they were not comparing it to other Friday the 13th's, but were instead comparing it to the 3 other movies we watched before it: Jack Frost, My Bloody Valentine, and The Stepfather.
OK, as for the movie itself, it is very entertaining. You have bunch of kids who are graduating and they take a trip, by boat, to New York City. (Where are they coming from? Canada? I have no clue...) Anyway, it's a nice cast of characters, including a metal chick who jams on a flying-V, using a karaoke machine as an amp; Julius, the boxer; a video-camera geek; a prom-queen who snorts cocaine; a strange janitor-type guy; our main character, Rennie, who has some mental problems; Rennie's boyfriend, whose dad is the ship captain; Rennie's favorite teacher; and Rennie's uncle, who is the principal of the school, I guess.
Of course they manage to pick up Jason along the way and the killing begins. Why, do you ask? Well, apparantly, Rennie's uncle took her out to Camp Crystal Lake to teach her how to swim when she was a little girl. He threw her in the water, and as she kicked and screamed, an ugly, deformed, little boy, by the name of Jason, came from the bottom of the lake and tried to pull her down. She got away... that time. So now Jason's back to kill her and her stupid friends.
When Rennie and a few of the others jump in a lifeboat and make it to Manhattan, Jason follows them, of course, and for the first time, we see Jason far away from Crystal Lake.
This is definitely worth seeing. I'd probably rank it behind 2, 3, and 7, about even with 1 and 6, but definitely ahead of 4, 5, and 9.
As for the kills, it's typical Jason stuff, with a few twists. You can imagine when Julius challenges Jason to a fight: "Hit me with you best shot..." Yeah. Decapitation. On the boat, he kills a guy in the sauna with a hot rock to the stomach. And, in Manhattan, he kills this drug-head with a needle. Good stuff. Check it out.
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