Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
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Directed by	Adam Marcus
Produced by	Sean S. Cunningham, Debbie Hayn-Cass
Written by	Jay Huguely, Adam Marcus, Dean Lorey
Starring	Kane Hodder
Music by	Harry Manfredini
Cinematography	Bill Dill
Editing by	David Handman
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	August 13, 1993
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3,000,000 (estimated)
Preceded by	Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Followed by	Jason X
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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is a slasher film that was released on August 13, 1993. It is the ninth installment in the Friday the 13th film series and the first one to be distributed by New Line Cinema.

Much like the earlier installment, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the film sports a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2007) by two films. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series.

[edit] Plot summary

It is a normal night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. He gets blown to pieces. But when his grisly remains are sent to a morgue, the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and begins to eat it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can he be reborn, and that only by the hands of a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman and Jessica to save her and their baby, for she learns that her mother was none other than Jason's unknown sister, and that in order to save her baby from the Voorhees curse, she must take up her birthright to send Jason to Hell once and for all. At the end, Freddy Krueger's classic glove reaches out of the ground and grabs Jason Voorhees's mask and drags it to hell.

[edit] Cast

• John D. LeMay as Steven Freeman
• Kari Keegan as Jessica Kimble
• Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees/Guard Outside of Exam Room
• Steven Williams as Creighton Duke
• Steven Culp as Robert Campbell
• Erin Gray as Diana Kimble
• Rusty Schwimmer as Joey B.
• Richard Gant as Coroner
• Leslie Jordan as Shelby
• Billy Green Bush as Sheriff Landis
• Kipp Marcus as Randy
• Andrew Bloch as Josh
• Adam Cranner as Ward
• Allison Smith as Vicki
• Julie Michaels as Elizabeth Marcus, F.B.I.
• James Gleason as Agent Abernathy
• Dean Lorey as Assistant Coroner
• Tony Ervolina as FBI Agent
• Diana Georger as Edna: Josh's girlfriend
• Adam Marcus as Officer Bish
• Mark Thompson as Officer Mark
• Brian Phelps as Officer Brian
• Blake Conway as Officer Andell
• Medelon Curtis as Officer Ryan
• Michelle Clunie as Deborah, the dark-haired camper
• Michael B. Silver as Luke, the boy camper
• Kathryn Atwood as Alexis, the blonde camper

[edit] Trivia

• The film features Kane Hodder's only other performance in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides Freddy Krueger's arm in the final scene.

• The original title of the movie was Friday the 13th Part IX: The Dark Heart of Jason Voorhees.

• The circumstances under which the FBI mounted the sting operation that 'killed' Jason at the beginning of this movie are revealed in the novel Hate-Kill-Repeat, where Jason's existence is publicly confirmed after he single-handedly slaughters most of the people in the Phoenix Heights Hotel.

• The original script by Jay Huguely featured Jason's father Elias as the killer and included backstory about Pamela Voorhees' involvement in the occult. It was decided, however, that Jason needed to be the focus of the film, and Dean Lorey was brought in to re-configure the storyline.

• The camping scene with the ill-fated Luke, Deborah, and Alexis was not part of the original script. When test audiences in early 1993 complained about the lack of sex and teenaged characters, the scene was subsequently written and filmed during a new shoot.

[edit] External links

• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at the Internet Movie Database
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Rotten Tomatoes
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday at Box Office Mojo
• Film page at the Camp Crystal Lake web site