“Help.  He’s killing me.  He’s killing me.” 

   Kevin Bacon “starred” in the very first Friday The 13th movie, and in the rest of the series there were virtually no recognizeable actors or stars.  Except in Friday The 13th, Part 4.  If you can call Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover “recognizeable stars”.  The movie, which is actually called Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (in one of the most egregious misnomers in movie history), features the hockey-masked Jason wreaking havoc on a family living in the woods.  And of course the usual sex-crazed teens.

     It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Crispin Glover and Corey Feldman are both creepier than Jason in this movie.  The scene, toward the end, when Corey Feldman shaves his head and tries to look like Jason to…somehow…distract the killer, I think…is decidedly creepy.  And ultimately pointless.  Further, how he determined that the killer was Jason, and that he looked a certain way, and that this would be a way to vanquish the psychotic killer, is suspect at best.  But I guess it kind of worked.  Jason did look vaguely confused for a moment.  And then he got killed in such a way that we would assume that this, indeed, was the final chapter.

     Of course, we all know that it wasn’t.  Had this movie been the final chapter, it would have been a sad one.  The standard stuff is here - kids who want to have sex, women who spend time topless, machetes and stranglings and bodies thrown through windows.  This is a convention of the Friday film series that I don’t really get.  The bodies being thrown through windows.  I don’t understand how this is supposed to be scary.  Also, there is something strange going on when the bodies get thrown through the windows, but then they appear to disappear entirely.  I am never really certain whose body is being tossed.  Breaking glass - the hallmark of all successful Jason Voorhees and Steven Seagal movies.

     Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter is one of only three Deluxe Edition Friday movies being released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment June 16th.  The other two, Part V and Part VI, are clear indications that this was not, in fact, the “final chapter” at all.  Too bad.

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