Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Dir: Adam Marcus

1993

**

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (except, surprise surprise, it isn't) has the best opening scene of the whole franchise. Tongue is firmly in cheek in this chapter as we see Jason hung, drawn and quartered (shot and blown up) and yet he still survives. Jason is the undead, he cannot be killed, Hell is the only option left (well, Hell and Space, but that's a different movie). Jason Goes to Hell has some terrific gore and stylish direction but that's really as far as it goes. Jason Goes to Hell is a misleading title really as we hardly ever see Jason, we don't really see hell and there is very little travel involved either. The only scene other than the intro worth talking about, and it really was talked about in 1993, was the last scene whereby just as it looks like Jason might just fight his way back out of hell, Mr. Freddy Kruger (well, his knife-gloved hand anyway) pulls him back down into the earthy depths. It was basically filler, a big advert for what was coming, although not as soon as the producers had first thought. Freddy vs. Jason was speculated for a decade before it saw the big screen. Jason Goes to Hell is certainly not the worst Jason film but it felt like the most disappointing, much like every film before had felt like.