10 Smartest Decisions In Slasher Horror Movie History
9. Playing Possum - Jason Goes To Hell
The opening scene to Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday starts in gloriously generic fashion.
We first see a typical disposable (and needlessly naked, of course) young adult in a classic 'cabin in the woods' setting. Wouldn't you know it, but this vulnerable woman soon finds herself being stalked by Jason Voorhees. Quicker than you can say "grab a towel and run for your life," this poor poor victim is stranded in the middle of the woods and has the hulking frame of Jason towering over her.
The thing is, this was all actually all part of a cunning ruse to lure Jason to his ultimate demise.
While Jason Goes to Hell is a painful film to watch at times, credit has to at least be given for the picture's refreshingly different opening act.
You see, that disposable young adult is really an undercover FBI agent designed to draw Jason out into an open part of the woods where a tooled up SWAT team are waiting to blow Voorhees to smithereens.
Despite the plan to literally blow Jason up working so well, what the SWAT team (and disgruntled audiences) didn't fathom in is that this would lead to a movie where the turd-looking spirit of Jason was orally passed from person to person throughout the rest of the film - resulting in a Friday the 13th movie that had only a matter of minutes with the physical presence of Jason Voorhees on screen.