Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

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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
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.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $3,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $15,900,000 (domestically
Preceded by Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Followed by Jason X
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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.

Much like the earlier installment, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the film sports a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2008) by two films. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series, although it should be noted that it was nine years before another was made.

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[edit] Plot summary

It is a normal night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees 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, the FBI springs a trap. After gunning him, they launch an explosive, and Jason gets blown to pieces. His grisly remains are sent to a morgue, where the coroner (Richard Gant) is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and begins to eat it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason.

As the dark spirit jumps from host to host via a demonic, snake-like spirit, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can make him reborn, and that only by the hands of another member of the Voorhees Family can truly destroy Jason. This means that only members of his bloodline can kill him. 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 (Erin Gray), and Jessica Kimble (Kari Keegan), along with Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica and the main protagonist Steven Freeman (John D. LeMay).

Jason (possessing the coroner), kidnaps policeman Josh (Andrew Bloch) and takes him to the Voorhees house, where he shaves Josh and transfers his heart into his body. Josh (possessed by Jason) makes his way to Diana's house. Diana shoots Jason (as Josh) in the head, but is no use. Steven, having been asked to meet Diana's at the house, bursts in and stabs Jason (as Josh) with a fireplace poker. Diana is killed with a butcher knife, and Jason (as Josh) 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 (Kipp Marcus), a friend of Steven's.

Meanwhile, Jessica is dating American Casefiles reporter Robert Campbell (Steven Culp). 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 (as Josh) bursts in and transfers his heart into Robert. Josh, due to being possessed by Jason, melts into a puddle of flesh and blood. Robert (possessed by Jason) leaves, with Steven in pursuit. Jason (as Robert) 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 (as Robert), 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 polic 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 (as Robert) barges into the station, throws an officer and Landis aside, 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. (Rusty Schwimmer's)'s diner to grab the baby, but are held at gunpoint by Joey. Duke, in the meantime has escapes and takes the baby from the back of the greasy spoon. Jason (as Robert) kills Joey's som Ward, and comes into the diner. Two innocent patrons are killed. Joey's husband and cook, Shelby (Leslie Jordan) attempts to kill Jason by shooting him, as do Joey and Jessica's waitress friend Vicki (Allison Smith) with guns. Shelby is dumped and scalded to death in a fat-fryer by Jason (as Robert), and Joey is killed with an elbow to the face, literally denting her mouth inside of her face. Vicki manages to kill Robert with a barbecue skewer, although Jason is not dead, and dying in the same manner.

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 transfer his heart into the unseen officer's body (offscreen). Duke fallls through the floor, and Jessica is confronted by Landis and Randy, who both survived, but one them possessed. Landis accidentally stabs himself with the magic dagger, which can be used by a Voorhees woman to send Jason to Hell, 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 Hellbaby, crawls out of Randy's neck, and makes its way into the basement, where it possesses Diana's dead body. Jason is reborn and kills Duke. Steven fights Jason, and Jason is stabbed by Jessica and pulled by giant demon hands into Hell.

The film ends with Steven and Jessica, along with baby walking into the sunset, and after Jason is defeated, Freddy Krueger's clawed glove grabs Jason's mask, and takes it to Hell.

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[edit] Box office

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.

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  • The film features one of Kane Hodder's only other performances in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides the Clawed Glove in the final scene.
  • Actor John D. LeMay, who plays Steven Freeman, also played Ryan Dallion, one of the main characters of the related-in-name-only TV series Friday the 13th: the Series.
  • The original title of the movie was Friday the 13th Part IX: The Dark Heart of Jason Voorhees.
  • The original script by Jay Huguely featured Jason's father Elias as the killer and included backstory about Pamela Voorhees's involvement in the occult. It was decided, however, that Jason needed to be the focus of the film, and Dean Lorey was brought in to re-configure the storyline.
  • John McTiernan was offered the chance to direct the movie but turned to down to work on Last Action Hero.
  • The camping scene with the ill-fated Luke, Deborah, and Alexis was not part of the original script. When test audiences in early 1993 complained about the lack of sex and teenaged characters, the scene was subsequently written and filmed during a new shoot.
  • The "Necronomicon Ex-Mortis" from the movies The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and Army of Darkness can be seen when John D. LeMay as Steven Freeman is going through the Voorhees house and flips through it. This is the main focus of the Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash comic book series
  • Jessica tells the sheriff that she has left Steven near the Myers's place. This refers to Michael Myers from the Halloween series.
  • Tobe Hooper was originally considered to direct.
  • In the basement scene, the crate marked "Antarctic Expedition" is from the movie Creepshow in which a beast character is one of the main story lines.
  • The jungle gym used at the end was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
  • Jason Goes to Hell was released on VHS in both R-rated and unrated versions and on DVD with both the R-rated and unrated versions of the film on the same disc, the unrated version being three minutes longer than the R-rated version.[citation needed] This is the only Friday the 13th film released in North America which is available uncut.
  • Jason's exclusive body count, factoring in the "transfer" deaths (when a person dies after Jason transmits his soul into another being), comes out to 19, with a supposed five extra "Jason-style murders" proclaimed by a TV announcer in the film, although it is never stated whether or not these were truly committed by Jason Voorhees.
  • This was supposed to be the Final Film to the Friday the 13th films but had so much success like The Final Chapter.

[edit] Other media

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.

The FBI sting that occurs at the beginning of the film are foreshadowed in the novel Friday the 13: 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". [1]

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