Again as I always do with these sequels I have to start by saying this. Jason Voorhees is dead, he died drowning as a child in the original, all the killings in that were done by his mother who was also killed in that film. So I will not refer to Jason unless in inverted comma's as he is dead. Unlike it's 4 predecessors this doesn't start with a recap but with a very obvious dream with Tommy (Corey Feldman) from part 4 watching 2 men exhume the grave of "Jason Voorhees" (which really should be a much smaller grave for a child!) only to wake up as an adult being transferred from a mental institution to a Reform centre called Pinehurst. And the odds of a mental patient being allowed to keep a knife as a possession is zero, OK? The mask adult Tommy uses to scare Reggie is the same mask he wore in part 4 (when his mom told him to get a haircut).
Our mental patients are Joey (the fat guy), Vic (the macho tough guy), Violet (the punky girl), Robin (the cute girl), Eddie (an asshole pretty-boy joker), Tina (the slutty girl) & Jake (the stutterer). Staff are Matt (in charge) & Pam (2nd in charge) & George aka Gramps (the cook & Grandfather of Reggie). They are hated by redneck neighbours Ethel and her son Junior. 1st dead is Joey (killed by Vic for being annoying), 2nd dead is Vinny (a local wise guy), 3rd dead is his buddy Vinny (another local wise guy). 4th dead is Billy (an orderly from the mental institute), 5th dead was Lana (A waitress & Billy's girlfriend). 6th dead is a drifter whose name we never got. 7th dead was Tina and 8th dead is Eddie (we assume the strap around his head killed him).
Pam takes Reggie & Tommy to meet Demon (Reggie's older brother, who I recognised from Return Of The Living Dead) and we also meet his girlfriend Nita. The guy beating up Junior in the long-shots wasn't the actor playing Tommy (he was too tall). 8th dead is Nita and Demon is 9th to die. Pam goes off to look for Matt, George, Tommy, Eddie & Tina. Junior is 10th dead (decapitated in his yard) closely followed by Ethel who is 11th dead. 12th dead is Jake (we assume, never seeing it). Unlucky 13th dead is Robin (in her bed, doing nothing) and Violet is 14th dead (just dancing in her room). Reggie finds all the bodies of the dead patients in Tommy's bedroom. Pam's scream sounds very fake (she's very slow to react) and finally someone dressed as "Jason" smashes into the house.
Outside on the road they find a hospital van containing an orderly, 15th dead. (Good goof is how The Killer was behind them but appears in front of them by the van without ever passing them) Pam finds Matt's body, 16th dead. She runs back to the house and the body of George (17th dead) is thrown through a window (this has happened in 2 previous "Friday" films and is getting old). Pam is chased by the guy dressed as "Jason" (the stripe on his mask is the wrong colour, it's blue but should be red) and saved by Reggie driving a bulldozer into The Killer (which would have at least broken his ribs if not killed him). Pam fights & cuts The Killer with a chainsaw and then Tommy finally arrives (so we now know he's NOT The Killer), gets slashed across the chest and stabs The Killer in the thigh with his knife. The Killer climbs the ladder FAR TOO EASILY for a man hit by a bulldozer, slashed in the arm by a chainsaw and stabbed in the thigh.
Reggie & Pam work together to knock The Killer out of the barn but it takes Tommy to chop off his hand and The Killer is impaled on a hay-bailer losing his mask revealing him as Roy, the paramedic. Joey turns out to be his son and his death sent him over the edge. The "Fake" death of Pam is shown to be a nightmare of Tommy's. His final hallucination is of the real Killer (the mask from the previous film). I find it hard to believe Tommy would have been allowed to keep the mask Roy wore (it'd be evidence, surely?) and there is no way they would have taken a knife with a wounded patient either. The weak ending is supposed to make us think that Tommy's delusions of the "Jason" Killer of the previous movie have finally taken control of his mind and he has become "Jason". Really awful ending.
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