Well this movie I remember seeing on AMC a couple years after I really got into slasher movies after watching John Carpenter's "Halloween," and I thought it was pretty good. However, after having watched it again, I'm going to have to change my opinion. While I applaud the Director and the Writers for trying to come up with something new to add something fresh for the series, I don't think that a telekenetic woman with some precognitive ideas were really not the right ideas to bring that freshness to the series. It was kind of fun, I must admit, but it was taken to too extreme of a level. A little bit here and there wouldn't have been that bad, even though I'd rather there not be anything from the telekenetic end. What could have possibly been an excellent idea, ended up making the movie overly corny, and dropping my rating of it. I don't think superpowers are what this series needs. I don't know what EXACTLY it needs, but I don't think that superpowers are it. I also don't really understand how it went from Forest Green to Crystal Lake again... I thought that they had changed it in the last one. Granted, the last movie happened quite a few years before this one takes place, but I didn't think it was so easy to have the name of a city changed. Anyway, overall, the movie is enjoyable, but to be honest, as I said, telekenesis is not the way to add freshness to this series. As far as I'm concerned, Jason should really be the only one to have any sort of superpowers, and all he needs are his superhuman strength and his inability to die. Don't get me wrong, though. The movie IS enjoyable, it's just a little bit ridiculous. This is the sixth sequel to the original "Friday the 13th," and you can tell that the quality in the movies has begun to drop, and they're starting to become less and less of horror movies, though that's the name they wear. It's what happens when you attempt to come up with a sequel every year, and your ideas run out. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that they're trying to spice up the series, but in all honesty, this is DEFINITELY not what the series needed.

The Director of this installment of the "Friday the 13th" series is a man named John Carl Buechler, whose directed a couple other movies that seem to be really corny horror movies, including "Troll," "Cellar Dweller," "Curse of the Forty-Niner," "Deep Freeze," and "The Curious Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde." While I've never heard of any of these, save "Troll," let alone seen them, so I'll be basing my opinion of his directorial skills on this movie alone. While he does manage some interesting things for the movie, I don't think his skills are completely developed, and if they are, well then, he should stick to effects, which he's done for movies such as "Hatchet" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." His filters aren't really new to the series, and reminded me of a couple previous installments in the "Friday the 13th" series, but that's not really a big deal. As far as angles for kills go, he does manage a few good ones, like when he sneaks up on Eddie as he is sitting on the couch. Eddie doesn't notice him, but you see Jason standing there all big and scary, and it's definitely a nice effect. He's not the greatest Director ever, but he does manage to get a few things done right. The Writers of this movie are Manuel Fidello and Daryl Haney, who base their movie on Victor Miller's (Who is uncredited in the movie) character Jason Voorhees. Now, Fidello and Hanley do manage to create a nice story about a girl whose on the verge of total collapse, and finds herself face to face with Jason Voorhees, and I most certainly applaud them for trying to add something new to the series, and attempting to freshen it up a little bit, but there story was definitely shakey, and they definitely didn't need to give the lead woman superpowers. They attempted something new, which is great, but it just didn't really work out very well for the movie, and really gave it a a lot of cornyness that it didn't need. They definitely tried, and I give them credit for that, and the movie was definitely fun, but it was definitely not one of the better movies of the series.

Even the visuals of this movie aren't as good as they could have been. For the past six movies, the visuals have been very nice, and very creepy looking, to really add to the effect of creepiness for the movie. This one has good visuals, don't misunderstand me there, but the looks o fJason Voorhees are hilarious. Especially towards the end when he is unmasked. His face is hilarious! I know he's supposed to be incredibly decayed and whatnot, but honestly! That's the funniest looking thing I've ever seen, and it's supposed to be scary. I deifnitely think more work should have been put into it. I'm not going to describe the looks to you totally because I want you to see for yourself. Anyway, the point of view for this movie is the same as it was in the last one, and a few before it. You see Jason as he stalks his prey, and murders them savagely. It's a nice effect because it gives you, as I said in my review for "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," and it gives you that "Oh shit, it's HIM!" Feeling, which is a fun feeling to have because you have apprehension for what Jason is about to do. Now, here is the part where I bring up Jason's looks. It's kind of a mixed feeling for me. On one hand, the decayed and even more frayed version of Jason that we see after the ending of "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," which keeps with continuity for the most part. However, there's a side of his face that we see a jaw line. I don't know if they were aiming for the mutant that Jason Voorhees is supposed to be or not, but you see his jawline showing through his cheek, and his teeth are WAY bigger than they should be. It's hilarious, and stupid looking. So big ass cool looking dude, with a stupid looking jawline. Win/lose situation... bittersweet, one might say. Finally we come to the kills. The blood in this one looks better than the blood from the last movie, however the kills are slightly... Shall we say... plain... compared to what Jason usually does. The one that really stands out for me, though, is the kill where Jason takes the woman in the sleeping bag, and beats her against the tree. That was a funny kill, and a particularly brutal one all in one. One of my favorites from the entire series, really. This movie's visuals department, is unusually sketchy for the "Friday the 13th" series. For the past ones they've managed to keep that the department where they make things look awesome, but this one did some downsizing. Not terrible, just not as great as they could be.

The Storyline... This is where I have some issues summing up all of my thoughts on the movie. It was a nice try for the series. It really was, and it's a very enjoyable movie. The aspect of it, though was a little bit too hard to swallow. For me anyway. I like that they wanted something new for the series, I really do. Superpowers, however, are a no no. I know it's hard to keep a series like this going for this many sequels on the same premise it has, and I applaud them for being creative, however many parts of the story, telekenisis and precognition aside, were very very sketchy, and didn't really make for the best of horror films. For instance, the entire death of my father driving me crazy thing, was a bit much, and the crazy doctor who wanted to hone in on Tina's powers was kind of..... Dumb, while at the same time it was an interesting concept. I also don't really understand how they changed back to Crystal Lake so fast. I mean, I know this movie takes place quite some time after "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," but they had changed the name to Camp Forest Green so that they could put the past behind them, and let go of their misgivings of what was once called "Camp Blood," and return things to a state that resembles what Crystal Lake was like BEFORE the drowning of Jason Voorhees. The changing of the name stood for much for this community, I don't really understand how it could be changed back so quickly. I actually wonder whether or not they'd forgotten about that little tidbit of the story. It's not really that big of a deal, really, but it does stick out for those of us who paid attention to the entire storyline of "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives." I also wish they would have explained what happened TO Camp Crystal Lake, or Camp Forest Green, whatever it was called. In "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," Tommy Jarvis chained Jason Voorhees to the bottom of Crystal Lake just outside of the Camp... However, when we come there with Tina, her mother, and her doctor, it's just a couple of Houses, no camp in sight, yet Jason's body is there, with the same rock chained to him. I'm not sure what went on there, since it really wasn't explained. The other aspects of the story, I liked. The fact that Tina found herself pitted against Jason after accidentally raising himf rom his sleep, as well as the party going on next door introducing lots of.... Shall we say? "Fresh meat?" For Jason. It was a staggery storyline, but it worked out for an enjoyable movie in the end, there were just some things that bugged me about it.

We begin this movie with a very interesting montage of clips and scenes from the original "Friday the 13th" all the way through to "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," and a very interesting narration (Voiced by a familiar from the original "Friday the 13th" and "Friday the 13th Part 2:" Walt Gorney, who played the very memorable character, Crazy Ralph) that tells about the curse of Jason Voorhees. From here, we find ourselves at a scene from the past, with a little girl named Tina Shepherd (Played by Jennifer Banko of "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III"), who is waiting outside her home's door, and listening with tears in her eyes as her Mom and Dad yell at each other. She hears her mother yell for her to come back inside, but she doesn't listen, and turns and runs. She heads down to the docks that are at the cabin she owns, and gets into a boat, which she lets float out into the lake. Her mother, Amanda Shepherd (Played by Susan Blu of "Deadly Weapon") and her father, John Shepherd (Played by John Ortin of "Gunplay") come running out. Her father comes out and tells her that he is sorry for what he did, but Tina will have none of that, as she yells at him that she wishes he were dead. Suddenly, the water starts to bubble, and the dock starts to shake and suddenly crashes down on top of her father, and kills him. She cries out as her Dad dies, suddenly feeling love for him once more. Now we cut to the future as a grown-up Tina Shepherd (Played by Lar Park-Lincoln of "House II: The Second Story") and her Mother are driving on their way into the woods, heading back to their old cabin. Tina has been kept in a mental institution for a long time now, as she has been blaming herself for her fathers death, and it has been messing with her mind big time. Not to mention the fact that she has a power that she can barely control because she is the one who caused the dock to collapse on her father, and kill him. She is heading back to the cabin where everything started to have her sessions with her doctor, Dr. Crews (Played by Terry Kiser of "The Offspring"). Hopefully the sessions will help her back where it all started, so that she doesn't have to go back to that awful hospital. They arrive, as Dr. Crews is standing on the front porch, and we see two women, Sandra (Played by Heidi Kozak of "Slumber Party Massacre II") and Melissa (Played by Susan Jennifer Sullivan of "Click: The Calendar Girl Killer"), as they check out a boy named Nick (Played by Kevin Blair of "The Hills Have Eyes Part II") as he is busy with something. As soon as Melissa sees Tina, she makes a snyde remark about her. Tina grabs her bags, but one accidentally opens, spilling her clothes all over the place. Nick sees, and goes to help her, and we see a spark between the two, but Tina gets incredibly defensive and heads inside. She enters Dr. Cruz's "office" at the cabin. To start their first session, Dr. Crews has her focus her feelings on this little blue block with some weird symbols on it. Try as she might, Tina can't seem to make anything happen with it, as she tells Dr. Crews, but he starts yelling at her, and she starts to get angrier and angrier, and suddenly the blue block starts to skit across the desk. Dr. Crews says some more stuff to her, and she gets even more upset, and suddenly the block bursts into flames. She runs out of the room, and down to the living room, where she starts to cry. Her mother comes up, and asks her what's wrong. Tina tells her that she misses her father so much and storms out to sit on the dock where her father died. Her emotions start to cloud her as the water starts bubbling, and a figure in a hockey mask emerges from the Lake. She passes out, but when she wakes up, no one is there. She has awakened Jason Voorhees (Played by Kane Hodder of "Alligator II: The Mutation"), and unlocked his chains from underneath of the water. Jason stalks the woods, and comes across two campers, Michael (Played by William Butler of "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III") and Jane (Played by Staci Greason of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"), as they are walking through the woods after having had car trouble. Jane tells Michael that they need to keep going, but he says camping is just camping, so she ruins the surprise for him by telling him that they were supposed to be going to a cabin where they'd be having a big surprise party for him. He gets excited, and they continue on, but Jason shows up, and finishes them off. Meanwhile, Tina gets invited to go over to their cabin for a party that they're holding for Nick's cousin, Michael. She accepts and goes there. Here she meets a whole plethora of kids there. There is Sandra and her boyfriend, Russell (Played by Larry Cox of "Three Fugitives"), the strange storywriter, Eddie (Played by Jeff Bennett of the made-for-TV movie, "Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair"), Kate (Played by Diane Almeida of the made-for-TV movie, "Lady Boss," where she played a female guard) and her boyfriend, Ben (Played by Craig Thomas of "Fashionably L.A.") , the stoner, David (Played by Jon Renfield of the made-for-TV movie, "Into the Homeland"), and his two fangirls, Maddy (Played by Diana Barrows of "My Mom's A Werewolf") and her best friend, Robin (Played by Elizabeth Kaitan of "Nightwish" who are all gathered to celebrate Nick's cousin's birthday. As they're conversing, and Melissa is being a bitch to Tina, Tina has a horrible flash of a hockey-mask-wearing man killing some boy, and she leaves the house in a run. Soon, Jason happens upon a couple in the woods, Dan (Played by Michael Schroeder in his only film) and Judy (Played by Debora Kessler in her only film) who are enjoying a night of camping, when Jason shows up and kills them both, very brutally. Soon, Tina and Nick begin to strike up a relationship, but Melissa seems to want to get in the way all of the time. Soon, though, Jason makes his way to them, and begins to kill them one by one, as Tina is plagued by the vision she had of Jason the night before. She decides to run away from everything, but crashes the car when she sees an image of her mother being killed by the same hockey-mask-wearing man whom she saw in the lake, AND killing the man. She crashes the car she took, and starts to run back to her house, where she finds Nick, and soon, theey're up against an evil that neither of them can even comprehend, as Jason seeks to continue his work of killing any teen who makes their way onto his lake. The Actors and Actresses in this movie aren't really that great. It's not hard to act snotty, slutty, or anything else, I wouldn't think. Tina does a relatively good job with her part, though. The characters manage to get down their respective emotions, feelings, worries, and other such characteristics, though not great, pretty well. The biggest thing I must mention, is the emergence of Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees. Though they messed up his looks, Hodder delivers an excellent and creepy performance as our zombie-goalie-friend, and he's definitely one of the best actors we've had portray the big man. DEFINITELY a partially good job with the casting of this movie.

All in all, this was an enjoyable movie, though there were many things that contradict the last movie, "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," as well as some not-so-great acting, and a rather hard-to-swallow new twist on the story. If you liked the last six "Friday the 13th" films, then you probably will enjoy this movie to some extent, like I do. The Director of this movie doesn't do TOO bad with his Directing skills, but he doesn't really bring anything new to the table, as some of the past Directors have. He manages well, though, and gives us an interesting angle or two. DEFINITELY a partially good job on the Directing of this movie. The Writing of the movie is not TERRIBLE, but it's not the greatest, either. They manage to create some freshness to the movie, and I give them credit for that, even though it wasn't the best of directions to go with the movie. DEFINITELY an alright job with the Writing of this movie. The Visuals of this movie are done very well, but even THEY have decreased in their value for this film. Jason's teeth on the side are WAY bigger than they should be, and the kills aren't as inventive as they could be, but other than that, it's not done TOO terribly, with the same point-of-view as the last one and a few before it had, so that you see Jason the entire time, and one pretty cool death in a sleeping bag. DEFINITELY a pretty good job with the Visuals of this movie. The Storyline of this movie is done relatively well, and they manage to give it an interesting twist, however too many things have changed that don't really add up, and the whole aspect of the woman on the brink of insanity is kind of adding TOO much to this movie, but not THAT bad. The superpowered woman DEFINITELY wasn't the way to go, though. DEFINITELY a partially good job on the Storyline of this movie. The Acting ties everything about this movie together. All of the Actors and Actresses deliver performances as characters that are KIND OF Convincing, KIND OF Believable, and KIND OF Realistic, as well as delivering performances as characters that you can SORT OF feel for, though I'm not really sure how well you can RELATE TO them, on SOME different levels. Definitely a partially good job on the Casting of this movie. So if you were a fan of the original "Friday the 13th," "Friday the 13th Part 2," "Friday the 13th Part III," "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter," "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning," and "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," then you'll probably enjoy this movie to some extent, like I did. So give her a try, if you haven't seen it yet. I'm almost POSITIVE that you won't get COMPLETELY disappointed with it. I know I didn't!!!!!

THIS CONCLUDES PART 7 IN MY REVIEW SERIES FOR THE "FRIDAY THE 13TH" SERIES!!!!! STAY TUNED FOR PART 8, "FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN!!!!!"