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12. Jessica Kimble - Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

For most Friday the 13th fans, hearing the words Jason Goes to Hell is enough to make them break out in a cold sweat.

Notoriously the Friday the 13th movie that featured an extremely minimal amount of the physical presence of Jason Voorhees, Jason Goes to Hell instead has the spirit of Jason passed from person to person after an impressive opening act that blows Voorhees into a gazillion pieces.

That inventive opening act is sadly where The Final Friday peaks, with Jason lulled into an FBI sting designed to destroy him. From there, the film goes off a cliff as we focus on a bounty hunter trying to stop the spirit of Voorhees from been passed to Jason's half-sister, his niece Jessica, and Jessica's daughter.

It's Kari Keegan's Jessica her ends up positioned as the final girl here, with the revelation that only someone related to Jason can ever truly kill him. A magical knife to the heart ends up doing the job for Jessica, but she rarely feels like a final girl - in the same way that Jason Goes to Hell rarely feels like a proper Friday the 13th film.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

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Posted On: 11th Aug 2021

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