Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

1984 91 min ★ 6.1 Horror

After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

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Cast

Judie Aronson

Samantha

Kimberly Beck

Trish Jarvis

Joan Freeman

Mrs. Jarvis

Barbara Howard

Sara

Corey Feldman

Tommy Jarvis

Erich Anderson

Rob Dier

Peter Barton

Doug

Crispin Glover

Jimmy Mortimer

Clyde Hayes

Paul

Lawrence Monoson

Ted

Details

Director

Joseph Zito

Screenplay

Barney Cohen

Tagline

"Three times before you have felt the terror, known the madness, lived the horror. But this is the one you've been screaming for."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$2,600,000

Revenue

$32,984,636

Production

Friday Four, Inc., Georgetown Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sean S. Cunningham Films

Reviews

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John Chard

August 24, 2016

★ 4/10

You got the curse? Well we all thought Jason was dead, as he is here taken to the morgue after being mortally killed... But of course he revives and sets about establishing that he is in fact an indestructible killing machine. I wouldn't want to be living near Camp Crystal Lake right now... In truth it's a good old 1980s slasher pic, but that doesn't necessarily make it worthy to anyone out...

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Gimly

September 13, 2018

★ 6/10

Doesn't divert much from the formula of the first three films, but does add two new elements which I actually enjoyed. I am curious though, when they made this one, did they **actually** think that this was going to be the final chapter, or where they fully aware they were gonna keep beating that horse for decades to come? _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a...

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Wuchak

July 13, 2019

★ 6/10

***Another entertaining sequel, better than Part III*** The first two films are serious in nature with the expected antics of youths at camp, but the franchise introduced a campy element with Part III, which pretty much plagued the rest of the series until the reboot in 2009. Released in 1984, "Part IV: The Final Chapter" is an exception as it thankfully omits the cartoonish elements of "Pa...

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JPV852

November 15, 2020

★ 7/10

Liked this one a bit more than the last time I saw it, a bit slow at times but, at least compared with Part III, better characters, but has some good and gnarly kills (one in particular when Jason comes out of the water). The biggest knock is the bad editing (one scene has Jason killing Crispin Glover in the kitchen and later the girl Glover slept with in the bedroom before a shot back in the kitc...