Hilariously Bad Movies: Jason Goes to Hell

It is unavoidable to start talking about how bad this movie is without mentioning the music. Throughout the movie, cheesy synthesizers compliment every going-on and they sound like they were ripped from an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. Except that show was much better than this movie.

The Friday the 13th series has been troubled from the start and I guess the makers wanted to inject some sort of original idea into the franchise. What the audience gets is the unveiling truth that Jason (all along!) has been a supernatural being who can transfer his spirit using the help of 80s-style special effects.

In the first ten minutes, the FBI lures Jason out of hiding and blows him into several pieces. As the agents high-five and congratulate each other, a mysterious man lurks in the darkness and watches with a knowing glare. "I don't think so," he wisely says to himself and to the audience.

Jason's body is brought to an autopsy room where a man analyzes the corpse by himself. In a cringe-worthy part (not because it's scary), Jason's heart, which has remained luckily intact, starts to slowly beat again. The man watches the heart beat faster and faster and then suddenly he shoves the organ into his mouth and takes a big bite out of it.

So now that Jason has found another body, the next thirty minutes consist of murdering characters who are irrelevant to the plot. While camping, a teenage girl has to go pee and is killed. Her two friends are about to have sex in a tent, but the guy doesn't want to use a condom. "I hate these things," the man says, and so the girl throws the condom outside of the tent. She is then killed. Not only does Jason hate girls who pee in the middle of the woods, but he apparently hates unprotected sex.

Jason also switches bodies throughout the movie. In a very bizarre sequence, Jason ties a man up and applies shaving cream to the man's facial hair. After the man is sufficiently shaved, Jason switches into his body. I wish I was making this scene up.

Besides the obvious use of a doll in place of a human baby, the other special effects are horrifically bad. After a predictable which-body-is-Jason-in climax, Jason's true form is finally revealed to be a small, slimy puppet thing that makes "eeee"-ing noises.

For a reason I still cannot figure out, Jason somehow obtains his original appearance for the last five minutes where he squares off with the main character. After effortlessly killing dozens of people, you would think Jason would have little trouble with our hero. Instead, he spends a couple minutes beating the hell out of him with a rake.

I would never want to ruin the ending to a movie, but I'll make an exception: The movie ends and then they made another sequel.