10 Horror Movies Where The Reshoots Were Obvious

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is exactly the sort of movie you get when a studio hires a 23-year-old first-time filmmaker - a complete shambles of a ninth entry into the slasher franchise.

Production was, predictably, a mess, with roughly half the movie ultimately being comprised of reshoots after producer Sean S. Cunningham - who hired Marcus in the first place - discovered that his protege had captured unsatisfactory takes of many scenes and even missed crucial lines of dialogue.

During post-production numerous elements of the film were changed, with subplots being cut out, character relationships rearranged through clever editing, and worst of all, fan favourite character Creighton Duke (Steven Williams) having his screen time bafflingly curtailed.

Given that Duke originally delivered much of the movie's exposition regarding Jason Voorhees' newfound ability to possess people, it's little surprise that the supernatural mechanics seem vague and ill-defined in the final cut.

Duke also had a more elaborate backstory which was left on the cutting room floor.

Thankfully workprint versions of Jason Goes to Hell have down the rounds in bootleg form, which restore much of the shade and context strangely absent from the painfully slapdash theatrical release.