Search - Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter on DVD

Jason verses a well-known cast.

James McDonald | Southern California | 11/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Released on Friday the 13th-- April 13, 1984.

This is the fourth "Friday the 13th" film. When we last saw Jason the killer, he had an ax right through his hockey mask and into his face.

On this VHS, we are treated to a 2 and a half minute montage of the first Friday the 13th (1980), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982), to catch us up on what is going on.

Only Terry Ballad returns from Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982) as a State Trooper in this film.

The film begins only moments after where the third film ended. The ambulence and the police are there at the barn. Jason's body (Ted White) is loaded in the ambulence and taken to the hospital morgue. While morgue attendent, Axel (Bruce Mahler) and nurse Morgan (Lisa Freeman) are making-out, Jason awakes and ultimatly kills both.

Six young adults (Lawrence Monoson, Crispin Glover, Barbara Howard, Jodie Aronson, Alan Hayes, Peter Barton) rent a abin across from the Jarvis family. The mother (Joan Freeman) keeps an eye on her young son, Tommy (Corey Feldman) who likes to be voyeuristic looking out his own bedroom window at the new cabineers, Samantha (Jodie Aronson) and Paul (Alan Hayes) making-out.

The next day, twin sisters, Tina (Camilla More) and Terri (Carey More) show the new cabineers the way to Crystal Point where they all engage in some good clean fun of skinny-dipping. Meanwhile, Trish jarvis (Kimberely Beck) and her brother Tommy pick up a traveler, Rob Dier (Erich Anderson) whoose sister "Sandy Dier" was killed by Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). The party is getting started and jason plans on crashing that party in his own "slasher" way.

Body Count: 13

Running Time: 91 minutes.

Bruce Mahler was a cast member in the "FRIDAYS" variety tv series (1980-82).

Cory Feldman, you remember from Gremlins (1984), The Goonies (1985).

Camilla More appeared on "Days Of Our Lives" in 1986-1988, General Hospital in 1991-92. Her twin sister, Carey More, appeared on "Days of Our Lives" in 1987.

Lawerence Monoson was in The Last American Virgin (1982), And The Band Played On (1993-tv).

Crispin Glover was in Back To The Future (1985).

Lisa Freeman was in Back To The Future (1985), Back To The Future Part 2 (1989).

Alan Hayes was in "Bold and the Beautiful" in 1988-89.

Peter Barton was in "The Powers of Matthew Starr" tv series (1982), "Young and the Restless in 1987-93, " The Bold and the Beautiful" in 1993, "Sunset Beach" in 1997-98.

Kimberly Beck was in the original "Fantasy Island" tv series in 1978-79, Independence Day (1996).



The story continues in the next film: FRIDAY THE 13th: A NEW BEGINNING (1985).



A new "Friday The 13th" movie was released in 2009.



Update: The 13th movie, Friday the 13th Part 2, will be released in 2013."

An Entertaining Horror Film, Disapointing DVD

Jeremy | OH | 01/01/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The Friday the 13th films have always interested me. The movies themselves are scary but yet are devoid of a real plot,hammered by an extremely low budget,and have really no character development at all. But for some reason, people don't seem to mind this. The movies are entertaining enough,and having a very low budget only seems to make the movies feel more creepy. In Friday the 13th-The Final Chapter (yeah right!) there really isn't much more to add if you've seen the first 3 films. You know Jason is going to rise from the grave and kill some teenagers (or rather people in their mid 20's playing teenagers),and you know there is going to be a lot of gory, grisly deaths.Makeup master Tom Savini returned for the last time in the series to create the films extermely disturbing death scenes. Young Corey Feldman appears as Tommy Jarvis, a 12 year old obsessed with video games and creating his own monster masks and makeup. When a group of teenagers rent the house next door to the Jarvis family, Jason returns to Crystal Lake to kill everyone. That's pretty much it plot wise, you see dumb teenagers going outside in the middle of the night by themselves to take a little midnight swim (take a guess at what happens to them..) This movie is a horror movie and follows the formula of dumb characters doing dumb things, but that's all part of the fun with these type of films, guessing how and who's going to die next. The DVD itself is extremely disapointing with the bonus material being nothing more than a lame theatrical trailer. Even the transfer is a total let down. Has it improved from the VHS version of the movie? Sure, but not much. The image quality is in terms pathetic on how the movie could look compared to other films that have been digitally remastered. The sound is even worse. A flat mono track is the only availabe sound option. Thanks a lot Paramount. It amazes me how Paramount can produce a profitable franchise that was so sucsessful it has 8 (soon to be nine sequels) and not give it any special attention at all. Obviously if there are that many sequels made there is a huge number of loyal fans to these films who are given absoulutly nothing in return. Without the fans, this series would have ran out of steam a long time ago. Maybe someday the loyal fans of this series will get what they deserve. My applause goes to New Line Cinema who now holds the right to the franchise. Maybe someday they can buy the rights from Paramount and produce a collection similar to the outstanding Nightmare on Elm Street DVD collection. One can only hope. To sum up this very long review, the movie itself is worth watching, but spending over $20 on this bare bones DVD? Do yourself a favor and buy the VHS version for $9.99. This DVD would be better used as a coaster. Thanks for nothing Paramount!"