I haven’t still understood the film ending LoL

(sorry for my english)
A fan from Italy

On the other hand, some of the touches are just sheer brilliance. The blink-and-you’ll miss it moment of the camera lingering over Violet’s “Stop the Slaughter!” poster just before *she* gets slaughtered was the perfect piece of dark humor, and it consistently makes me chuckle. I will also admit to liking Roy and his story. For something that takes up such a small part of the running time, it did pack a punch, at least for me. The characters stand out (though whether they do this in a good or bad way is up to the viewer).

However, even though I like part 5 and think it should have been made, I also think they did the right thing bringing Jason back in part 6.

Basically, like scabboy and others, I feel this was truely the last Exploitation-style Slasher entry of the series, and as a result, very operatically sleazy and old school slasher-iffic in places. But I ultimately feel it does have way too many characters that are ultimately just introduced for the sake of trying to have a suitably icky death of course before the MPAA steps in to enforce edits on the film makers. In short: It’s fun, but VERY flawed.

But I’ve always had a soft spot for this perverbial Black Sheep of the series. I never really minded the Pseudo-Jason/Roy Burns imposter. And some of the characters are quirky and most of the girls (in fact, I personally find ALL of them) are hot in an attainable way for us North American’s. Especially totally tubular mid ’80s New-Wave hottie Violet (Tiffany Theisen from Reform School Girls). But ultimately, I will admit the film is NOT high art in the least, even if it was never meant to be, and there is some inane and even silly & dumb dialogue and equelly silly & dumb set pieces. By this point, the series was well-versed into it’s own retro-Slasher formula, and as a result, I feel the cocaine fuiled intensions of the film makers and others really needed a tighter script that focused on Tommy and a slightly better well written group of the trouble teens at the Pinehurst halfway house.

But, alas, even with the MPAA-imposed cuts (which is another thing that ultimately makes me grop this half a grade from a C+ to just a C) it has, I’ve just always had a soft spot for this mostly anti-social and much more eccentric & quirky and even very oddly mean-spirited as all fuck entry in the series. They truely don’t make’em as inane and anti-social as this anymore.

Yup, it’s not high art in the least, but it’s the last installment that I truely enjoyed, many flaws and all, and is a solid Exploitation picture that is well worth having, even if the script and the directing (I’m sorry but Savage Streets Danny Steinmann is a fine enough guy, sleazy ‘n fun to an extreme, but someone a bit more subtle should have been hired by Paramount, and they know it) are very off-kilter in places, and it lacks some style and flare. Especially after three vastly superior films before it.

So I DO really like it in parts, but not on the level as many like the good ole’ boys of http://www.deadpit.com radio, or such. I like it just enough, and yes, it SHOULD have been made, and it should have been pretty much the same, although the Pseudo-Jason imposter ultimately needed a better story, and Tommy after his next ordeal should have shown signs of spiritually healing and leaving the institute and ultimately Essex Crystal Lake County.

And some of the characters (yes even in a fifth Friday installment) should have been more well written. I like it for what it is, and it’s a fine guilty pleasure, but I can’t help but think now every time I watch it now that it is getting it’s ass kissed now a bit TOO much on places like IMDB for being quirky & eccentric like a lot of films, and most of the acting is flat to a bit too over-to-top and ultimately like I said, I feel they needed another director and tighter script in order to seal-off the Tommy Jarvis character for this movie.

So I like it, plenty, but not a lot and I don’t just love it. So it’s not the first four superior films of the franchise, but for what it is, this flawed piece of mid ’80s New-Wave sleaze will do.

my only problem with part V is not one the common, obvious complaints. i think alot of the kills have no setup and are poorly executed. …somebody’s doing something in a scene about nothing relevant, out of nowhere cut to a shot of hands holding a weapon and swinging, quick zoom-in on the person making a stupid face, end scene. …i’m not saying there aren’t some good kills, but alot of them are kind of WTF? that’s it?

And come on how great was the up close machete slow walk shot with “his eyes” playing…. everyone knows that scene.

Last words… if they had never made this movie we would have never gotten the best tits of the series.. Period

No problems with it.

From a purists stand point, it wouldn’t have bothered me for the Friday franchise to end after Part IV. I think once Part V debuted, it signaled to the fact that the series still had legs, and that Paramount would reap the rewards. That being said, I thought that those behind Part V did a respectable job. It certainly wasn’t a ridiculous premise to have someone using a copy cat method to kill those responsible for their son’s death.

The counter argument to making a Part V is that it led to the silly Part VI, VII, VIII & the horrendously bad Part IX & X. Everyone has heard the anti drunk driving message, “Know when to say when”, well the Friday franchise probably could’ve taken a lesson in that area post Part V. I don’t think that means there couldn’t eventually have been another movie. I think it would’ve been a wise move to do what the Halloween franchise did after the “Season of the Witch” (which was awful), and that was to sit back and to take some time off before ideas poured in regarding the next film.

In my opinion those first 3 flicks post Part V were rushed, and ended up showing little reverence for what made the franchise successful in the first place. I know for many horror fans, their concern is centered around Jason & Jason only (who I thought became a caricature of his former self). In fact the franchise seemed to be more concerned with new and fun ways for Jason to kill his intended victims (and the # of kills), but because of that, the plot, storyline, and character development took a severe hit(especially in regards to the heroine/protagonist).

A crucial element of any good horror film is centered around a sympathetic protagonist/s and its secondary characters. As an audience we want to care about the heroine and the intended victim/s (Female & male). Unfortunately Jason’s victims post Part V became more one dimensional, and they were dumbied down to the point that their fate/s became less substantive. The Friday kids seemed to operate within a pluralistic society/niche in the beginning. Their backgrounds though different, didn’t seem to be disjointed, like the characters today. These days, it seems like the powers that be create characters that would resemble those seen in M.T.V.’s the “Real World”. In other words, it’s all about image/looks, and less about personality. By today’s standards, we would never see an Amy Steel running around the woods for her life; she would be replaced by some buxom blonde with a S.A.T. score around 650.