Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

MOVIE #1,198 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 10.18.23 50 MOVIES IN 32 DAYS! I know it might seem like I’m just parroting popular opinion, but I think this is probably the best movie in the franchise (it’s at least the best up to this point). And yes, Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover are big reasons why, but this also features the return of makeup artist guru Tom Savini who was absent in the making of Parts 2 & 3. The formula is pretty much the same but the inclusion of a family unit (Feldman and big sis/Final Girl, Trisch played by Kimberly Beck) and some vastly improved pacing/action and slasher horror. The sequence between “Ted, Where's the corkscrew?” and Glover’s lady friend getting chucked out a window is better than anything in the first three films. There are so many window crashes, even the dog gets in on the action…

This was comically billed as “the final chapter” and if it had been the end of Jason, it would have been a fine and very enjoyable note to go out on.

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and Peter Barton. It is the sequel to Friday the 13th Part III (1982) and the fourth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise. Picking up immediately after the events of the previous film, the plot follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees who escapes from the morgue and returns to Crystal Lake to continue his killing spree. The film marks the debut of the character Tommy Jarvis (Feldman), who would make further appearances in two sequels and related media, establishing him as Jason's archenemy. It was released on April 13, 1984.