10 Greatest Unspoken Horror Movie Plot Points

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is a profoundly weird movie, and though most of the slasher sequel's gambles just don't pay off, director Adam Marcus did suffuse one brilliantly hush-hush plot point throughout the entire story: Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is a damn Deadite from the Evil Dead franchise.

In the film, you might've noticed that protagonist Steven (John D. LeMay) actually stumbles across the Evil Dead's troublesome book, the Necronomicon, in the Voorhees home.

And while you probably assumed this was nothing more than a cute Easter egg, it was actually 100% intended to imply that Jason's mother Pamela used the dreaded book to resurrect her son, in turn transforming him into a parasitic, demonic entity driven to kill.

According to director Marcus, Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi loved the idea and even gave Marcus the authentic Necronomicon prop to use in Jason Goes to Hell, though for legal reasons they couldn't directly state that Jason was a Deadite on screen.

More to the point, a magical dagger is ultimately used to defeat Jason, which is actually a stand-in for Evil Dead's Kandarian dagger, which is used to fight Deadites in that franchise.

The dagger isn't identical for the aforementioned legal reasons, and never named as Kandarian, but the intent was absolutely to tie Jason's revival and demise to the Evil Dead franchise.

And honestly, accepting some of the absolute nonsense in the Friday the 13th series, this makes a hell of a lot more sense than most of it.