7. Jason Lives - Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniF9bJ1LN4 If Friday The 13th Part 3 is where the franchise first found its swagger, then part four is where it perfected it. If somebody was unfamiliar with Jason Voorhees and the F13 films and you could only play one movie for them, this would be it. The Final Chapter is like a compilation or a best of of the entire series. Everything that this type of movie is known for is on full bloody display; horny teenagers, drug-using, skinny dipping and machetes to the face. The film ends with Jason getting hacked to "death" by young Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) as his sister Trish (Kimberly Beck) looks on in shock. However, at the time, series tradition dictated they needed a fake-out dream sequence conclusion. They filmed one, and then scrapped it. The scene is set the morning after Jasons gruesome demise and sees Tommy and Trish asleep on the couch, until the sound of approaching sirens wakes them up. Noticing water dripping from the ceiling, Trish makes her way upstairs where she finds her mother dead in the bathtub. Jason (back from the dead) seizes the moment and promptly takes Trish out as well. Jason obviously wasn't going to stay dead, why even pretend?
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