Friday the 13th - Part 7: The New Blood

Pros: The psychically endowed heroine is an interesting idea, but unfortunately, the formula of these films prevents it from being explored in anything more than the most cursory sense
Cons: Wooden acting, pedestrian direction, and a complete lack of gore amongst other things.

Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood:Paramount Pictures
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: M

In 1986, Paramount Pictures released Tom McLoughlin’s Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives, the sixth installment in...

Pros: An original story - not bad for part seven of a series.
Cons: The new composer doesnt work for me.

So in the late eighties, the Friday the 13th was still going strong, churning out sequel after sequel year after year. Next up in the calvacade of slaughter: New Blood. As you may recall, Jason (now played by the one and only Kane ...

Pros: You're kidding right
Cons: Everything

In last film, Friday The 13th: Jason Lives!, Jason Voorhees came back again and killed a ton of immoral teens again before being stopped where he was tied to a boulder and thrown into the Crystal Lake where he drowned at the bottom (again). Well, y ...

Pros: Some good action and acting
Cons: There’s not enough originality to hold interest

Have you ever met someone who just doesn’t know when to shut up? I’m talking about people who have a valid point to make, make it, and then carry on talking for the next half hour, not saying anything of interest at all. They ramble on and on for no ...

Pros: see below
Cons: see below

Friday the 13th Part VII is the first entry in the series I remember seeing. It was the night it premiered on HBO and at that point in my life (I was probably 12 or 13), I had seen only a handful of horror movies. No surprise the nudity was the ...

Pros: it's camp, it's R-Rated, it's Jason
Cons: too much adherence to formula at times

There are few genres as enjoyable as the camp horror movie. In these flicks, which often have a su ...

Pros: music, makeup
Cons: borrows a lot from Carrie, Formalic plot, plot holes

I rented this shortly after seeing the sixth movie. The sixth film in the franchise was a refreshing film as it included comedy as well as action in it. It was a nice change but unfortunately the next sequel was just a return to the standard slasher ...

Pros: Interesting idea...
Cons: ...virtually ignored in favour of more predictable stalk and slash

Opening with the by now standard compilation of shoddily assembled flashback footage (in which voice-over man informs us "he's still down there, WAITING!"), Part 7 does have one reasonably interesting idea but chooses to ignore it until the last fifteen...

Pros: Good Idea, Kane Hodders best performance. Good variety of murder tools.
Cons: Cut out pieces once again. Predictable, cookie cutter characters. Some bad dialogue.

Jason Voorhees.

There's no denying that this guy has done a awful lot in the course of 10 movies. Gone to space, gone to Hell, gone to New York, gone one on one with Corey Feldman, Got blown to bits by none other then the FBI, and racked up a...

Pros: Great acting, and T&A. Plus a great plot.
Cons: Not enough gore!

I own this movie because I got it at the flea market for $.99. I had not seen it in a while so thought, sure I'll buy it. I didn't really remenber it, so it was almost like watching a movie I never had seen. It was pretty good. The thing about this ...

Pros: Another Jason Movie, when will he stop?
Cons: Again, being the victim is BAD!

This installation of Friday the 13th takes off with more of the same old stuff. However, the plot does take a very interesting turn and actually produces another part to the story that adds a nice touch. Enter Tina(Lar Park Lincoln), as a trouble youth...

Pros: Kane Hodder turns in the best performance of Jason ever.
Cons: Annoying characters.

When a teenage telekinetic girl named Tina accidentally raises Jason from the depths of Crystal Lake, all hell breaks loose. It doesn't look like any of the other teens at the lake are going to be any help, so Tina must learn how to harness her special...

Pros: New Idea,deeper character development
Cons: sometimes when you get to 7 it's time to stop..but not in this case

I must say this is my favorite of the F13th series. After 6 films filled with non stop cheesy gore with Jason (or mom in part one)...doing the slow walk around the woods and killing half nude females and hormonal boyfriends...The psychic layer added to...

Pros: lots of blood and gore
Cons: nothin

Part 7 of the series was very suspenseful indeed. I thought that it was better than all the other films in the series. The thing that I liked so much about it was the many different ways that Jason thought of to kill his victims. some of my...

Pros: Kane Hodder is great as Jason, best one yet
Cons: some of the weapons Jason finds are off the wall, laughable

This is my favourite Jason flick. Not only does it introduce Kane Hodder as Jason (and would be cast for Jason in 8, 9 and upcoming films), it also has an interesting twist with one of the other characters.

A young woman named Tina...