Tommy Jarvis decides to dig Jason up from the grave, only for him to be brought back to life by a lightning strike, Frankenstein style! And thank goodness he did because this is an excellent entry in the series. This film is notable for two things - it introduced humour & also in bringing Jason back from the dead he is virtually indestructible. In Alice Cooper it also has a great soundtrack. There's no nudity here & the gore has been toned down but it has a very high body count with many inventive kills, it's fast paced, well acted & is hugely enjoyable. Sadly the series went down hill from here...

Let me start off this review by saying that Friday the 13th Part VI is by no means an excellent film. It's drenched in the 80s and has a lot of very cheesy moments. But, in all honesty, I feel that this sort of adds to the charm of the movie. This was the Friday the 13th movie that knew that the franchise would never put out a legitimately good horror film to rival the likes of Halloween. Because of this, the film doesn't take itself too seriously and, as a result, we get what is probably the most enjoyable film in the whole franchise.The film starts out with a grown up Tommy Jarvis driving with a friend to the grave site of Jason Voorhees. Tommy says that he doesn't believe Jason is really dead and feels that it is his duty to put him to rest and make sure he stays dead. But, when Tommy stabs the corpse of Jason with a metal rod, lightning strikes the rod and resurrects Jason as a super-powered zombie. The rest of the film follows Tommy trying to hunt down and end Jason, while also including plenty of what we really came to see: Jason killing people in the most outrageous ways.Right off the bat, you can see an immediate problem with the plot of this movie. Tommy goes to kill Jason once and for all at the start of the film, yet if he hadn't done anything, Jason would have probably stayed dead. The story line has a lot of very strange plot holes like this. However, if you can suspend your disbelief, and just enjoy the absurdity of the scenario, you will have a very fun time. No film that starts off with a James Bond style opening is taking itself very seriously to begin with. So the audience shouldn't take it too seriously either. The fact that this film doesn't take itself too seriously works to the film's advantage in the end. Much like Evil Dead 2 or Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3, when the film doesn't take itself too seriously, it can turn out a very fun and entertaining experience. Part of what makes this experience, in the end, is just the absurdity of some of the kills. This film probably has some of my all time favorite deaths in the Friday the 13th franchise. For example, a paintball player is killed when Jason grabs him by the arm and throws him against a tree. When his face hits the free, it leaves a smiley face indent on the bark. That alone is kind of funny and will get a chuckle out of the audience. But what's even funnier is when Jason looks down and lifts up the severed arm of the paintball player, and looks at it as if he's surprised by his own strength. Bits of tongue and cheek humor like that scattered throughout the film are part of what makes Jason Lives such an enjoyable experience. In the end, Friday the 13th Part VI is by no means a good movie. there are a million plot points that don't make a lot of sense, and an incredibly forced romance between Tommy and the Sheriffs daughter. However, if you can suspend your disbelief and look past a lot of the flaws in the plot, you are in for a very enjoyable experience. A lot of self aware, tongue and cheek humor, along with some good forth wall breaking moments, really makes for a fun and enjoyable experience. This movie is a self aware horror comedy that, much like Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3, just gives the audience what they want, Jason killing people in absurd ways. I would definitely recommend this movie to any horror fan who likes some good tongue and cheek satire.

After a lukewarm response to the franchise's new, Vorhees-free direction, the studio mandated that Jason somehow return from the grave in this ridiculous slasher sequel. FYI: repeated lightning strikes (and a conveniently-placed hockey mask) are enough to convert a rotting, maggot-riddled, decade-old corpse back into a stalking, menacing killer. I can't decide if it's genuinely this stupid or if the series has finally become self-aware enough to poke fun at itself. Either way, it's a swing and a miss. Beyond said resurrection and the victims' frenzied scramble to isolate themselves in the darkness and await a swift judgment, there's nothing to this plot. Just a bunch of random kills, pointlessly short ones at that, with the usual assortment of paper-thin caricatures and a grab bag of genre tropes. The entire film is literally explained in full during the bad, two-minute long Alice Cooper song that accompanies the closing credits. Tommy, the only recurring character to last for three films, has been recast for the third time and now plays something of a bumbling charlatan, spouting mystic wisdom from the depths of nowhere. Naturally, that's accepted as gospel and provides our only means for an escape from this madness. Typical of the series, it's pitifully acted (apart from new player David Kagen, who struggles to bring a dash of vigor to his watery role as the town sheriff), awkwardly executed and translucently obvious. The return to familiar territory provides a very mild improvement over the stinky fifth chapter, but that's not really a compliment.

This entry in the series actually started off pretty well. It seemed the movie was taking shots at itself with the one guy looking at the camera and blaming the audience for considering this entertainment. A girl says that she knows that those wearing masks in horror movies are not friendly. I heard that this might have been trying to be a self parody of the series. By the second half, it just abandons it. We get the same scenes of the kills over and over and it's rarely interesting. I will at least give this film credit for somewhat trying to be a good movie. The makeup is quite impressive. I really do like Tommy Jarvis here as it's interesting for a series with so few recurring characters to have a protagonist.It seriously probably is the second best movie in the series next to the original. It does kind of set up the mythology well. What fails is that it doesn't make any sense. In the previous movie, it was said that Jason's body was already cremated, but here it isn't. Maybe that's more the fault of the previous movie, which really is worse. There have actually been three serial killers at Camp Crystal Lake (or Forest Green) at this point and it's simply stupid that they would try to suppress information on it. He's not Freddy Krueger. He doesn't become stronger the more you believe in him. Speaking of which, there's actually a girl here named Nancy who has a bad dream. Maybe it's the same Nancy from the Nightmare movies? I guess if you're really bored you can check this one out. This is a fan favorite and I really can see why. **