Director - John Carl Buechler (Troll, Ghoulies Go to College)
Starring - Susan Blu (Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Deadly Weapon), Lar Park-Lincoln (Children of the Night, House II: The Second Story), and Terry Kiser (Pet Shop, The Golden Girls)
Release Date - 1988
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "On Friday the 13th, Jason will meet his match"
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection)
Rating (out of 5):
The time of milestones with the Friday the 13th is behind us. From Part VI forward we get outlandish stories and scenaries set against Jason killing people in brutal and inventive ways. When we move on from Part VI we enter Part VII which is more of a supernatural horror tale featuring psychics, ghosts, and an undead Jason. It is one of the more unique Friday the 13th films and probably one of my least favorites.
The film follows Tina (Park-Lincoln) who is taken back to the cabin at Crystal Lake where her father was killed. Tina is telekentic and accidentally killed her father when she was a child. Her doctor and mother bring her back to the same cabin in hopes to help her get over it. However, the doctoris hoping to use her powers to benefit himself. What they don't expect is that her powers will free Jason who is chained and trapped in the lake. Once again we follow Jason as he goes on a muderious rampage.
A piss poor Friday the 13th is still better than most slashers. I love this series which should be evident from these reviews. However, I beleive that this installment is the low end of the franchise. It's just so far out there from the original films that it almost doesn't feel like a Friday the 13th movie. Hell, if you changed the killer it would have been a different movie. The acting in this one went from the best acted in the series to one of the worst. The characters and the cast in this one has always made me laugh with their soap opera like demeanor and reactions. The characters are cliches of what you would find in most slashers but how the cast reacts to different scenarios always made me laugh. The story for this one is just one absurd moment to another making this one feel less like a Friday the 13th movie and more like a late 80s Full Moon flick. We follow a woman with psychic abilities who struggles mentally with killing her father. We then have her dad who is dead but nota ghost or rotting, living in the lake that helps her at the end of the film. Honestly, I always felt that the writers were high as fuck when they wrote this one. Finally, this one keeps it up with the death scenes. The kills are not as polished as the previous films but it still satisfies those looking for slasher deaths. The practical effects are solid but we don't get anything we haven't seen before. Overall, The New Blood is easily the most laughable entry in the series. It's still a fun watch but it is easily the most out there entry in the entire series.
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