Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984)
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24% of critics liked it
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58% of users liked it
(63,741 ratings)
Hockey-masked killer Jason Vorhees returns to terrorize a lakeside family and their rowdy teen neighbors in this fourth installment of the long-running slasher series. After the events of Friday the 13th, Part 3, Jason's seemingly lifeless body is brought to the morgue, where horny attendant… More Hockey-masked killer Jason Vorhees returns to terrorize a lakeside family and their rowdy teen neighbors in this fourth installment of the long-running slasher series. After the events of Friday the 13th, Part 3, Jason's seemingly lifeless body is brought to the morgue, where horny attendant Axel (Bruce Mahler) is trying to score with foxy Nurse Morgan (Lisa Freeman). The pair quickly meet a grisly end. Meanwhile, at Crystal Lake, estranged wife Mrs. Jarvis (Joan Freeman) and her kids -- young Tommy (Corey Feldman) and teenaged Trish (Kimberly Beck) -- find their quiet invaded by a group of hard-partying kids moving into the rental house next door. The youngsters include curious virgin Sara (Barbara Howard), hot-to-trot Samantha (Judie Aronson), and nebbish Jimmy (Crispin Glover). Tommy, a monster makeup enthusiast, enjoys watching the scantily clad young ladies through his window, while Trish toys with the idea of joining in their revelries. Also lurking around the area is Rob (Erich Anderson), who claims to be hunting bear but actually has mysterious ties to the events of Friday the 13th, Part 2. As the house full of teens begins to pair off -- aided by the addition of local twins Tina (Camilla More) and Terri (Carey More) to the mix -- an unseen killer begins to pick them off one by one. The bloodshed climaxes with a tense showdown in which Tommy disguises himself as a bald, lumpy boyhood version of Jason in hopes of distracting the relentless psychopath who hunts him. Feldman would return for a cameo in Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning, only to be replaced by another actor in a grown-up version of the role. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Zito
- Written By
- Barney Cohen, Martin Kitrosser
- Genres
- Horror
- In Theaters
- Apr 13, 1984 Wide
- On DVD
- Oct 17, 2000
- Studio
- Paramount Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures
The final confrontation between Tommy and Jason is quite gorgeous, at least in the horror movie term of gore-geous.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Watching it again today, it works oddly well, almost like a John Hughes movie that got lost and wandered into slasher territory.
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Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine
This one certainly felt as if it properly closed out the Friday the 13th series before it devolved into unadulterated camp.
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Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
Can you say, Crispin Clover dance off?
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Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
Not so venally stupid as its predecessor.
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Cast
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Crispin Glover
as Jimmy
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Kimberly Beck
as Trish
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Barbara Howard
as Sara
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Erich Anderson
as Rob
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Corey Feldman
as Tommy
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Alan Hayes
as Paul
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Judie Aronson
as Samantha
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Ted White
as Jason
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Lawrence Monoson
as Ted
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Joan Freeman
as Mrs. Jarvis
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Peter Barton
as Doug
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Camilla More
as Tina
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Carey More
as Terri
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Lisa Freeman
as Nurse Morgan
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Bruce Mahler
as Axel
- Kirsten Baker
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Anthony Barrile
as Vinnie
- Richard Brooker
- Peter Brouwer
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Todd Bryant
as Grave Robber Neil
- Ronn Carroll
- Steve Daskawisz
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Tom Everett
as Flashlight Man
- Rex Everhart
- Walter Gorney
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Wayne Grace
as Officer Jamison
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Bonnie Hellman
as Hitchhiker
- Dana Kimmell
- Adrienne King
- Marta Kober
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Paul Lukather
as Doctor
- Tom McBride
- Betsy Palmer
- Jaime Perry
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Antony Ponzini
as Vincent
- Jeffrey Rogers
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Gene Ross
as Cop
- Nick Savage
- Amy Steel
- Lauren Taylor
- Russell Todd
- John Furey
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Frankie Hill
as Lainie
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Abigail Shelton
as Woman
- Jack Marks
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Thad Geer
as Running Man
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Arnie Moore
as Medic
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Robert Perault
as Medic
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John Walsh
as TV Newscaster
- Clyde Hayes

