What I Liked: That devil disco banger that plays during the opening and closing credits doesn’t fit with the movie at all but I still like it.
It took three goddamn films but we finally get Jason in the
hockey mask and it’s a major improvement over the sack from the previous
installment. He looks and feels right
now not only in his appearance but in his movements. He acts with a drive that was missing last
time.
There are a few creepy images that the movie leaves you with
like Jason being hanged and of course the classic moment when he gets an ax
laid in his head but still stumbles forward hands outreached desperately trying
to grab for his target.
What I Didn’t Like: One of the biggest problems is
there isn’t a plot. A group of friends
go to a cabin in the woods near Crystal Lake and get picked off one by
one. That’s it. They attempt to establish a backstory between
the protagonist (Dana Kimmell (Lone Wolf McQuade)) and Jason where he
attacked her outside her home however long ago but it goes nowhere. Originally he was supposed to rape her but
thankfully they cut that shit out. I
have no idea what this encounter adds to the story or to the relationship
between the characters.
A bunch of the acting is kinda bad. Some of the actors have stiff deliveries and
others put on melodramatic performances.
Richard Brooker (Deathstalker) who plays Jason does the best job.
You need to know going into this sequel that it was shot and
meant to be seen in 3D because they push that angle hard throughout. All the crap flying or being poked at the
camera is incredibly unnatural and distracting.
That shit doesn’t hold up in the slightest. And once you learn that shooting in 3D was
the prime directive handed down by Paramount all the energy put into the stupid
sight gags begins to make sense. In fact
it was such a grueling task for the cast and crew requiring dozens of takes to
get any one gag right that the filmmakers basically gave it their sole focus
and all other areas of the production were neglected to some extent. Hence my comments above.
Overall Impressions: Ninety percent of this film is people investigating something they saw or heard. It’s so much of people just wandering around various spaces with a curious look on their face. The script must’ve been like five pages long.
Not only that but the entire cast is simply cannon
fodder. A bunch of characters are
introduced only to be killed off minutes later.
And the ones that stick around for the majority of the run time are your
usual annoying teens that are either sex crazed, stoned or playing pranks to
misdirect the audience.
Another thing I don’t understand is Jason’s motivation. Are these people invading his space? That’s not made clear. Does he wander around and kill anyone in the
general Crystal Lake area? Why? We need something, anything to latch onto
guys. At least in the Halloweens
Michael Myers was terrorizing his blood relatives so there was that
connection. Well, until that weird ass
cult used him for assassinations and spawning a devil baby or whatever dumb
fuckin’ bullshit they were up to.
While this is technically a worse picture than Part 2
(and kind of a clusterfuck in my opinion) I would rather watch this one because
it definitely has some memorable moments.
Plus we get the final evolution of Jason making this another important
film. Without it we wouldn’t have this
legendary icon of horror.
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