Halloween Horror Film Fest continues with the presentation of Friday the 13th Part VI! Is it worth your time?
Format: Theater in the Garage
Screening Date: 10/15/2010
Run Time: 1 hr 26 min
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Release Date: 1986
Attendance: Weird Dave, Griffie, Dirty Hippie, Eric, Jesse
Review At A Glance
Enjoyment 6/10
Presentation 5/10
Short answer - no. Longer answer - nnnnnooooooooo. I grew up watching the Friday the 13th movies, and to be honest they frightened me (but not nearly as much as A Nightmare on Elm Street). Jason was a killer, yes, and he stalked people in the woods, but that's it.
Or at least it was until Part VI. The movie starts with the kid who killed Jason in Part IV coming to make sure the job is done - which he does by driving a metal stake into Jason's corpse, which is promptly reanimated by lightning and goes on a killing spree. And it goes down from there, if you can believe that.
I have vague memories of this movie being better, but it really was pretty bad even for a slasher flick. Bottom line - you watch a slasher flick like this for the boobs and the blood, and this movie was sorely lacking in both departments. Jason killed quite a few people, and in fact I think this movie holds the number 2 spot for most kills in a Jason movie, but they are shot and presented so poorly that you're never left to cringe and savor the moment. The director cuts away from every decapitation, every gutting, every stabbing, every bloody kill in the whole movie that you feel just down right cheated. And there's one terrible sex scene in the movie that takes place in a sorry excuse for a Winnebago. Yippee.
Really, just avoid this movie - it's not as good as you remember. Watch Friday the 13th Part III or even Part X instead. And when you do (insert segway here!) enjoy a tall Jason Voorhees for me! The drink for this particular Halloween Horror entry was appropriately titled a Jason Voorhees, which is one shot of vanilla vodka, one shot of cream, and about three shots of root beer (regular root beer). It tastes like a root beer float! Why it's called a Jason Voorhees, however, I just don't know. It's brown ... like Jason's clothing. I guess?
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