Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

1988 "On Friday the 13th, Jason is back. But this time someone's waiting."
5.2| 1h28m| R| en| More Info
Released: 13 May 1988 Released
Producted By: Sean S. Cunningham Films
Country: United States of America
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Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave.

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John Carl Buechler

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Console best movie i've ever seen.
ShangLuda Admirable film.
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
rambofanlife-41678 I know everyone is going to disagree with me but I found this movie really boring, lame and stupid. I don't know what happened with this film. Last year I was crazy and hooked on this movie, this year I found it extremely less enjoyable and boring dull movie. I found it stupid the main lead I found Tina to be stupid and not likable. While making a marathon and when I re watch it I was bored out of my mind with the film. I couldn't finish the film I come only 50 mins around until I throw my disk out of the Blu-ray player. I found the film extremely dull. I did not like zombie Jason at all or his outfit. They changed his cloths from part VI Jason Lives which was awful. I found Kane Hodder one of the worst Jason ever. Tina was annoying brat. She kept whining trough whole movie and I found it really annoying. Why was she crying when she was a bad-ass heroine? She annoyed me as hell. I am sorry but I have enjoyed Freddy Vs. Jason MILES way more than this movie. It simply become my least favorite film in the series. My girlfriend love this film it is her favorite number one film in the franchise mine just isn't. I didn't care about anyone in this film I didn't care about any of the characters anymore. I want watch this movie for a long time. This movie is un watchable in my opinion. The only thing I liked was the song Eye Eye - Essence of You it is a really good song and when Tina and her mom driving with car to Crystal Lake it remind on The Evil Dead (1981) and would definitely rather watch the Original Evil Dead than this movie. 3/10 I have no comments anymore but this last 4 movies to me are dreadful un watchable.
D Rahul Raj Jsd It's night and today is Friday the 13th (May 2016), a special day for us horror fans, and I started my triple feature watching this seventh chapter, which is my fave in the series. I remember watching a few scenes from this movie when I was little. Then I started watching them when I was 13. I'm a huge Jason fan, and this sequel, along with part 8, was the hardest to find. They didn't have it in any of my local video stores. In 2011, I finally found it online. Friday the 13th, The Ultimate Collection, includes 8 films with tons of features. When I saw it for the first time, I was just amazed with the story line. Horror legend Kane Hodder, in his first performance as Jason, faces a teenager, Tina Shepard, who has telekinetic powers, played by the gorgeous Lar Park Lincoln. She's a magnificent actress and my no. 1 heroine in the series. Just simply incredible, the characters, and especially the climax, with awesome stunts by Kane, and I really love the frightening detail look they did for Jason!!! Love the entire franchise, but this one has something special about it, and that's the reason it's my fave.
TheMovieDoctorful When one thinks about it, given its place in the "Friday the 13th" saga, it makes sense that "The New Blood" gets so overlooked and underrated by fans of the franchise. The films that followed it; "Jason Takes Manhattan" (A personal guilty pleasure), "Jason Goes To Hell" and "Jason X" are often regarded as the 3 worst movies in the series. In contrast, the film that preceded it, "Jason Lives" is often regarded as the best film in the series. So, it's safe to assume that "The New Blood" was the turning point in which the "Friday the 13th" franchise, pun intended, went to Hell. Only, it wasn't. In fact, behind "Jason Lives", I'd say it's the second best "Friday" film to date.The tone of "New Blood" is an excellent mix of dark and light. The self satirical, comedic, light hearted nature of "Jason Lives" (Jeff Bennett as Eddie is particularly hilarious, taking already witty comedic dialogue and making it gold.) is most certainly here, but the film is not without is certainly not without its darker and more serious moments. Tina herself is a character going through some very real, very tragic personal problems regarding her self loathing over her father's death, and the kills are more painful and visceral (Creative too and memorable too. The "sleeping bag" kill might be my all-time favorite kill in ANY "Jason" film. Just so blunt and shocking.) On top of that, this is one of the few installments in the series where I never got the feeling that the main characters were safe just because they were the main characters; this is a film that has no problems torturing its protagonist and it wasn't too much of a stretch to think that would extend to actually killing her. This makes the final 1/3 of the movie much more suspenseful than any of the other "Friday the 13th" films.Lar Park Lincoln is fantastic as Tina Shepard, easily one of the best characters in the "Friday the 13th" saga. With her friendly yet haunted delivery and adorable shyness, Lincoln grabs both my sympathy and my attention from beginning to end. Tina is a character who is wracked by loneliness and guilt throughout "The New Blood", horrified at the prospect of being responsible for her father's death and with nobody to trust or open up to emotionally. To see such a shy and passive character develop and grow to the point where she can go toe to toe with Jason himself makes for a very satisfying and investing final showdown. Terry Kiser is clearly having a ton of fun as the secondary villain Dr. Crews, and it really shows. He brings an unexpected subtlety to his performance, never going over the top or venturing into the realm of camp. Instead, Kiser focuses on the character's manipulative and sinister charm. Dr. Crews offers an excellent contrast to Jason; with Jason being a very blatant, aggressive "in your face" kind of evil whereas Dr. Crews is a much more subtle, charismatic villain. Of course, the most iconic and legendary performance in the movie has to be Kane Hodder as the terror of Crystal Lake himself, Jason Voorhees. Hodder brings a real violent edge to his performance. His movements, his walk, his facial expressions when his face is revealed all have a very primal, animalistic nature to them. Make no mistake, Hodder is the scariest and most brutal Jason to date by far.All of the effects for this movie are just perfect. Director John Carl Buechler's monster makeup for Jason Voorhees is some of my favorite practical effects works of the 80s and his gore effects are equally impressive and realistic (Though sadly largely cut by the MPAA, many of it now only available through deleted scenes on the DVD), but underrated are the sets and cinematography in the film. Camp Crystal Lake has a much grimer, nastier look to it than in the other "Friday the 13th" films. The fog, the forests, the general lack of light; it just FEELS like this evil, unnatural and scary place.It will always confuse me as to how this film doesn't get more credit among the "Friday the 13th" fandom as one of the best the franchise had to offer. It had a great protagonist, great villains, great effects, a great tone, great cinematography...Truly an underrated gem of the genre.
Matthew Luke Brady So I'm guessing "The Final Chapter" flew over the studios heads like an Hawk.A New Blood is set years after Jason being chained to the bottom of Crystal Lake, he is awoken by a girl with telekinetic powers and begins another killing spree.How did this series get here? I mean, what started as the usual slasher movie with the first movie, then suddenly turns into one of the most ridiculous and silly horror movies I have ever seen. A girl with Telekinesis powers that beats up Jason...WHAT?! And yes, I know it's going for a different approach as this is the seventh movie in the series, but it's only done for the sake of it, which is dreadful.This is by far the worst entries to the Friday the 13th series. It's boring, the acting is atrocious and so is the writing, but the whole series has been like that.