Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives Reviews

The murderous Jason is back in the latest chapter of the most offensive series in film history, unless Burt Reynolds makes three more Smokey and the Bandit pictures real quick.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4

Although the first four sequels had their own brand of tongue-in-cheek horror, Part VI marked the first step into overt campiness of the series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

This may be my favorite of the Friday the 13th series, mainly because of the winking, insider humor; it's almost like a precursor to Wes Craven's Scream ten years later.

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While there's a superficial been-there-done-that, why don't-we-just-mock-the-whole-thing quality to this entry in the series, it certainly livens up what has become by this point a stale franchise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Writer-director Tom McLoughlin strives to bend the familiar FRIDAY formula into a throwback to an earlier era of horror monsters. The results are mixed...but you have to give [him] credit for trying.

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Does Jason ever die? On with the franchsie.

| Original Score: 2/5

Jason pretty much kicks ass

| Original Score: 3/4

It's kind of a nice film, and nice exploitation films are nobody's idea of a good time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

Gives us a couple of good, self-referential laughs ... the film is probably the most enjoyable of the series, but it isn't the best.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Of note: Electricity will figure prominently in just about every Friday the 13th entry from this point onward.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The sixth installment in the thunderingly mediocre series features no nudity whatsoever. Surely this is an editing mistake.

Full Review | Original Score: D

The best Jason until Jason X. Has a sense of humor and a good story.

| Original Score: 4/5

Possibly the best Jason movie, which admittedly isn't saying a whole lot. Great Alice Cooper theme tune.

| Original Score: 3/5

Is it a great horror picture? Oh, no, though within the confines of an artistically dubious series, it's like a work of minor genius.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Please put Jason out his misery!

| Original Score: 1/5

The only good Friday. Fast paced, funny and nicely atmospheric. Neat ending.

| Original Score: 3/5

above all funny, a largely enjoyable near-spoof of slasher films in general and the Friday the 13th series in particular.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A sly sense of humor helps alleviate the tedium of the 6th go-round.

Full Review | Original Score: 59/100

| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: 3/5