Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
The 9th installment in the long running
Friday the 13th series.
In a final attempt to kill supernatural serial killer Jason Vorhees for good, a crack military group trap him and at last blow up Jason for good in a hail of bullets and an explosion as we see him disintegrate into a million gory pieces.
Sadly for those who think the Friday films are a cliched waste of time all this happens before the opening credits. What follows is a completely different beast of a film taking it's cues from sci-fi films such as
The Hidden as the spirit of Jason Vorhees hijacks various unlucky hosts in a bid to make himself whole and reborn again through a member of his original bloodline.
Talk about a convoluted plot, however this first film in the series to be produced by New Line Cinema takes the idea of mass killer Jason in a bold new way. Hopping from host to host means the hulking killer isn't actually in the film an awful lot, although Jason actor Kane Hodder does get a cameo as a police officer at the morgue where Jason's supposedly unbeating heart is taken following his destruction. However it's the lack of the hockey masked killer that also acts as a drawback. He is after all the reason to watch this series of slasher films.
Jason Goes to Hell is fast paced, exciting and a lot of fun. New Line up the gore content considerably with some very gooey practical effects, one scene midway through is 'jaw dropping'. The final scene is also a bit of a jaw dropper but in a different way as it rather unexpectedly features a brief cameo from another iconic horror character which paves the way for a sort of sequel some ten years later.