I liked Eddie’s kills but I think editing killed it (no pun intended) a little made it feel a little choppy to me. But Tina’s death, while you don’t really see it, still hit a nerve with me. I think sometimes the imagination can do worse than what you see on screen.

My favorite part about Juniors death was the silence at the end. I remember watching that scene hoping he would stop crying and screaming then … whack! Peace and quite.

Vinnie – Road flare in the mouth is so original.

Tina – I love hearing that last crunch sound as the sheers totally destroy her face.

Eddie – Same as Tina’s death. I just love how it was also original.

My only question: Why couldn’t they come up with more unique kills like these for the remake?

Steve
mWd

Indeed. After that, it felt like almost Pg-13ish style “Monster Movies” that are way more traditional then an Exploitation-style Slasher entry with palpable sleaze and solid gore levels because of all the MPAA tampering, which unfortunately REALLY started to crack down on Part V came along. I actually find everything starting at Part V onward to sadly be fairly goreless with a few exceptions (some minor blood flow left in Part V, and the opening heart-rip of Hawes oddly enough left in Part VI’s opening for some blessed movie God’s reason, ect).

While the film is hampered by a not-so-subtle direction from The Unseen (although he used an Allen Smithe pseudo on that one because of the editors work Danny says) and of course Savage Streets with Linda Blair (which I actually liked a WHILE lot more when I was a kid for some reason) and of course his adult film work past, I’m an open-minded guy, and this is indeed the last “guilty pleasure” for me for the series. Affter the first four I honestly don’t see much fright factor with the series, as the now Zombiefied-like Jason Voorhees was often in WAY too many damn shots for my tastes instead of the second halfs of the film, as Parts 2, 3 and 4 wisely kept in until the final two reels or so, and plus I feel a lot of the death sequences were best in the first five.

But this one is indeed a good guilty pleasure for me, and there’s some fantastic deaths on hand. Too bad I feel the REEL EFX make-up crew that worked on many of the early Jason films didn’t really perhaps have enough tie to work on things or what not, as I feel this one has age’d quite poorly with a lot of the porsthetics so badly showing they’re age. I’ll never forgetting finally years later after the VHS tape wore out watching the barebones DVD edition of Part V and laughing SO hard at the lit flare in the mouth gag.

If I had to ick I would again go with a very viscual looking head gag and some on-going childhood nightmares I once had of being brutally slayed by a head crushing and/or head piercing:

Billy’s axe to the head. That mock-up head wasn’t that bad of a job at all, and Billy’s “sudden” coke-up expression is priceless. Talk about a way to immdiately come-down from your High. *lmao* Poor bastard.

A quick follow-up for me would easily be Tina’s garden sheers to the eyeballs with the slice right through her bride. The showing of Roy the Pseudo-Jason removing them is a fairly cold insert shot; like something from The Final Chapter even with the most ice-cold hearted Jason around at that point in the series timeline, and the quick aftermath shot at first teases us with the always lovely Debi-Sue Voorhee’s (nice name, by the way) glorious ass … and them BAM: We’re immdiately disgusted with seeing her eyeless. The writer’s must’ve had an almost Lucio Fulci-like obsession with eyeball violence as the same happens to the African-American Grandpa cheif/house keeper. Really: anyone else ever wonder what all of Part V’s very viscual eyeball violence was all about? Interesting about how Roy felt about eyeballs.

But Billy’s all the way, with the poor, lovely Tina as a palpable follow-up. Long live Part V, even if I don’t love it as much as I did as a young kid: It was truely the last Exploitation style installment of the original series, and as such desurves a little more respect then most would give to it, even if the acting isn’t up to par, there are the beginning of the series long-running battles with the MPAA-enforced cuts and is maybe a bit too sleazy for it’s own good. but ah holy hell, what the hey? It IS a young Friday the 13th films, after all.