Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

The Friday films have always been unintentionally funny anyway, so it was only a matter of time before someone made an overtly comedic take on the Jason mythos. And this one's crammed with all sorts of silly lines and loopy side notes and half-assed homages. (One of the children at this film's summer camp has bad dreams and is named Nancy, an obvious nod to the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The favor was returned in Dream Master, where the dog was named Jason.) It's fairly entertaining, up to a point... until the murders begin in earnest. Now, considering that the only reason this series exists is to show creative carnage, there is absolutely no reason for the kills in the film to be so uniformly lame. Admittedly, the MPAA by this time was coming down on these films real hard, and the IMDb hints at several much moister kills that were cut for ratings purposes. But even so, aside from the vicious backbreaker near the film's end, this puppy just doesn't have much to it.

Grade: C-