Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

"Evil has finally found a home."

1993 1h 28m EN

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Synopsis

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Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

“Evil has finally found a home.”

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Cast

Kane Hodder
Jason Voorhees / Security Guard #2 / Freddy Krueger (uncredited)
John D. LeMay
Steven Freeman
Kari Keegan
Jessica Kimble
Steven Williams
Creighton Duke
Steven Culp
Robert Campbell
Erin Gray
Diana Kimble
Rusty Schwimmer
Joey B.
Richard Gant
Coroner

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Adam Marcus
Writers: Dean Lorey, Jay Huguely
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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88 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 5.3× over at the box office.

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ERA

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33 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Friday the 13th Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Adam Marcus, shot by Bill Dill. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Harry Manfredini. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor David Handman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Adam Marcus directs. Bill Dill behind the camera. Harry Manfredini scores. David Handman cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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188 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $3.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Made its money back 5.3× over at the box office.
433 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
5Part of the "Friday the 13th Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Adam Marcus, shot by Bill Dill. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Harry Manfredini. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor David Handman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Kane Hodder and John D. LeMay and Kari Keegan carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Evil has finally found a home.".
11IMDB entry: tt0107254 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 19 themes, including "new jersey", "waitress", "sadism", "psychopath".
13Released under 24 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Bill Dill
Original score: Harry Manfredini
Editing: David Handman
Production design: Whitney Brooke Wheeler
Costume design: Julie Rae Engelsman
Makeup / hair: Howard Berger
Sound: Phillip Seretti
Stunt coordinator: Kane Hodder
Runtime: 88 min · 1h 28m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $3,000,000
Box office: $15,935,068
Return: 531% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Part of

Friday the 13th Collection

An American slasher series set largely around the fictional town of Crystal Lake, New Jersey, which tells the story of serial murderer Jason Voorhees, and others who would kill on his behalf and in his name.

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Gimly2018-09-16
★ 4/10
The second film touted to be the "Final" Friday the 13th movie, and the second one to lie. Being honest, right out of the gate, I don't particularly like Jason Goes to Hell, and not only because of the negative sense-memory I have after playing a drinking game to it with straight Jack Daniels. But at least it tried some different things. Different tone, different look, different direction, different... Production company? It's still really not good, but it does sort of break up the marathon a bit by being something that no other Friday the 13th quite is. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
Wuchak2019-07-18
★ 5/10
Great intro & first act, but kinda distasteful and convoluted with a cartoony last act Released in 1993, "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday," aka Part IX, is the oddest entry in the series, along with the next one. But this isn't much of a surprise since three of the previous four installments were departures from the typical Friday formula -- Part V, VII (which features a Carrie-like character) and especially VIII (which switches the setting from Crystal Lake to a cruise ship and the big city). The prologue shows Jason back at Crystal Lake. How'd he get back there after the events in Part VIII? The ending of that movie didn't show Jason completely destroyed, so we must assume that he made it out of the sewers of Manhattan and simply gravitated back to his familiar stomping grounds, which is only about 75 miles away. Anyway, the opening is excellent and highlighted by the most stunning female in the entire series, Julie Michaels as Agent Marcus (which is saying a lot in light of the series having the best line of women of ANY movie franchise). Jason’s corpse winds up in the morgue in Youngstown, Ohio, and the film takes an interesting twist reminiscent of the 80's cult film "The Hidden." Other bizarre additions to the Jason Voohees mythos include a magic blade, a strange "Jason-Finder General" character and the disclosure of the only way the infernal monster can be killed and resurrected. I don't mind these revelations as the series was hackneyed after 8 films in 10 years from 1980-89, albeit still entertaining. Besides, there are enough typical Friday-isms to please fans of the series, for instance the entire camp sequence and the prologue, not to mention the return of an iconic character in the finale. Some fans object to the main revelation on the grounds that Jason is supposedly a misunderstood man-child and this movie changes that. Actually the only films fitting this model are Parts II, XI and the 2009 remake. Parts I, V, VI, VII, and VIII were more in line with the idea of Jason as a force of darkness & evil, the curse on Crystal Lake or whatever. And Parts III and IV had him killing a pregnant girl, psychologically torturing the heroine, and attempting to kill a boy after slaying his mother, so he wasn't exactly Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" as these critics maintain. Face it, although Jason may have been an innocent deformed child at one time, the seed of evil (possibly a demonic spirit) entered into his heart at some point and he increasingly became a hideous hellish monster and you have to give this entry credit for trying to fill in the bones with corpse flesh, whether you accept these surprises or not. Unfortunately, there’s a distasteful element to the proceedings, which is offset by the black humor a bit, and the final act goes so over-the-top with the action and horror shenanigans that the movie becomes cartoonish and laughable. A good example is the campy fight between the deputy and Steven. As such, "Jason Goes to Hell" is one of my least favorite in the series, along with Parts III and VII. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining enough and gets extra points for trying something fresh and interesting. Besides the awe-inspiring Agent Marcus in the prologue, we get a couple of cute campers, Deborah and Alexis, with Deborah (Michelle Clunie) particularly shining. There's also Jessica, who turns out to be the main protagonist, her mom (the goddess Erin Gray from "Buck Rogers") and Vicki from the restaurant. Needless to say, great job on the female front, but they coulda done more with Jessica. For those who care (I don't) this entry seriously ups the ante in the horrific gore factor. As far as locations go, this installment goes back to Southern California in the tradition of Parts III, IV and V; specifically the Los Angeles area: West Hills and Thousand Oaks. BOTTOM LINE: "Jason Goes to Hell" gets props for its radical departure from the Friday formula, even while containing “Friday” staples: youths, babes, Crystal Lake, slayings and so on. But there’s a disagreeable air despite the amusement and the final act spins out of control with quasi-horror zaniness. Still, any movie that features Agent Marcus and Deborah can't be all bad. The film runs 87 minutes (rated) and 90 minutes (unrated). GRADE: C+/B-
Kamurai2021-03-10
★ 6/10
Decent watch, might watch again, but can't recommend outside a Bad Movie Night or a Friday the 13th Marathon. It's both refreshing and sad to see them try to re-invent Jason. As a fan of "Fallen" I like the idea of the villain transferring from person to person, but they twist the concept a bit more than I would have wanted at points. Adding a "chosen one" trope to this doesn't do much for me. Having a nearly unkillable villain alone should be intriguing enough, adding extra rules to it doesn't feel good. I'd like to see a Marvel style reboot where the government has to try to contain the heart, and they figure out the minimum safe distance, creating a facility around it with animals going nuts, and someone breaks in to find out what it is and is possessed. It's not a great movie, and it's probably a bad "Friday the 13th" movie, but I enjoyed it for what it is.