Friday the 13th Movies: Ranked Worst to Best

11. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

New Line Cinema

As a huge F13 fan, I have seen every film in the series no less than 3 times and in some cases upwards of 20 times. Jason Goes To Hell is the exception.

Jason Goes to Hell was intended to be the final film in the F13 series followed by a crossover with The Nightmare On Elm Street series. To that end, the movie was designed to finally and permanently send Jason to Hell (hence the name).

Now I'll freely admit that not everyone finds this movie as loathsome as I do. The acting was mostly good, there are lots of pretty young girls in their birthday suits, the blood and gore is almost endless, and we get to learn a lot about the supernatural aura surrounding Jason. We even get to see Kane Hodder, who played Jason in three separate F13 films including this one, killed by Jason (Hodder was a security guard in that scene). It all sounds like a lot of fun, but I have several problems with this movie.

My main problem with this film is the revelation that Jason is reborn into new bodies whenever his old body is killed or degenerates to the point of no return. Really? Did director Adam Marcus even watch the earlier films? Jason returned from the dead IN HIS ORIGINAL BODY on more than one occasion - most notably at the beginning of F13 VI and F13 VII. This particular plot line might work in a stand-alone horror flick, but not as part of an existing franchise with an existing precedent of an un-killable psycho.

Another issue I had was the mystic dagger used to kill Jason once and for all. Where did this thing come from? It's all just a little too over-the-top for me. Again, maybe in a stand-alone film, but not as part of the F13 series.

The very end of the movie is pretty dang awesome, though. We get to see a teaser of the upcoming Freddy Vs. Jason when Freddy's arm comes tearing up through the ground to grab Jason's mask and drag it to Hell. Greatness.

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