Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Original title

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

Directed by

John Carl Buechler

Genre

horror film, slasher film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 1,224 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl with psychokinetic powers accidentally frees Jason Voorhees from his underwater tomb. Jason goes on a killing spree around Crystal Lake while the girl tries to stop him with her abilities.

tensegorycampyexploitativeformulaicsupernatural80s-stylerelentless

What happens

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film directed by John Carl Buechler and starring Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Blair, Susan Blu, Terry Kiser, and Kane Hodder in his first appearance as Jason Voorhees, a role he would reprise in three subsequent films. It is a sequel to Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) and the seventh installment in the Friday the 13th franchise. Set seven years after the events of the previous film, the plot follows a psychokinetic teenage girl (Lincoln) who unwittingly releases Jason from his tomb at the bottom of Crystal Lake, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area. The New Blood was intended to have a higher standard of quality than that of the previous installments, with high-profile directors being considered to helm the project. Paramount Pictures sought a partnership with New Line Cinema to create a crossover film between the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series which would not come to fruition until New Line bought the rights to the franchise, releasing Freddy vs. Jason in 2003. After several failed concepts, screenwriter Daryl Haney suggested an idea akin to "Jason vs. Carrie", in which Jason would battle a teenage girl with psychokinetic abilities. The film was released on May 13, 1988, to mostly negative reviews from critics, and grossed $19.2 million at the U.S. box office on a budget of $2.8 million. It was followed by Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan one year later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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