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After dying, coming back, taking Manhattan and dying again, Jason Voorhees is now back as a body snatcher in Jason Goes to Hell, an impossibly fun slice of campy supernatural slasher action!

Jason Voorhees is finally dead! Or is he? After being blown to smithereens in a sting operation, the infamous killer’s body is taken to the morgue in Youngstown, Ohio. But Jason can’t be killed so easily, and his still-beating heart possesses the body of the coroner performing his autopsy. The now body-hopping Jason begins hacking and slashing his way back to his stomping ground of Crystal Lake, where his last living relatives, Diana, her daughter Jessica and her newborn baby Stephanie still reside. Only by them can he be truly killed, and only through them can he be reborn, and Jason is determined to return to full power. Can the last remaining Voorheeses survive long enough to finally send Jason to hell for good?

Featuring fan favourite Kane Hodder as Jason and spectacular special effects by industry legends Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero of KNB EFX Group, Jason Goes to Hell is a madcap entry in one of the most lasting and entertaining franchises of all time!

Special Features: 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of both the Theatrical Cut and the Unrated Cut • Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 surround audio on both cuts • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both cuts • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by JA Kerswell and original production notesDISC ONE – THEATRICAL CUT• Introduction to the film by director Adam Marcus • Faces of Death, a brand new interview with special make-up effects creator Robert Kurtzman • Undercover Angel, a brand new interview with actor Julie Michaels • Mixing it Up, a brand new interview with composer Harry Manfredini • The Gates of Hell, an archival interview with director Adam Marcus • Jason vs. Terminator, director Adam Marcus on growing up with the Cunninghams • Über-Jason, an archival interview with Kane Hodder on playing Jason • Additional TV footage, with optional commentary by director Adam Marcus • Theatrical trailer and TV spots • Stills, behind-the-scenes and poster galleriesDISC TWO – UNRATED CUT• Brand new audio commentary with film historians Michael Felsher and Steve “Uncle Creepy” Barton • Archival audio commentary with director Adam Marcus and author Peter Bracke • Archival audio commentary with director Adam Marcus and screenwriter Dean Lorey

Not that I was going to purchase this either way, but Jason Goes To Hell has got to be one of the ugliest horror film posters I've seen. The giant penis-y monster just would scream to me "stay far away from this film" both now and in 90s.

I'm much more of a fan of the iterative 'normal' Friday the 13th entries in the series (4, 6, and 7 in particular), and always found it ironic that any attempts to deviate from the really rigid structure of the films were mostly doomed to fail. This is the nuttiest one, where after a brilliant and quite amusing opening scene (which is really all you need to see of this film) in which a lady goes to a cabin in the woods and does everything possible to conjure up a masked killer, even to taking a shower and then wandering about in a towel, turns into a convoluted lore-twisting body hopping monster type thing that just allows for some goopy body horror and no Jason at all for the majority of the film.

The big piece of trivia around this film is it is the first after Paramount divested itself of the series to be made by New Line Pictures, who were probably excited to have the property so they could team Jason up with Freddy. Hence the (yet more lore-breaking, but by that point who cares?) final kicker to the film. Although ironically it then took another decade (and Jason X in between) before they finally made good on the promise with the surprisingly solid Freddy vs Jason.

Although perhaps another amusing consequence of the move to New Line is that Steven Culp turns up in one of his earliest screen roles as a slimy newsman getting possessed and then melting down spectacularly, a few years before he turns up in the much classier role of Robert F. Kennedy in Kevin Costner's New Line-produced Thirteen Days film about the Cuban missile crisis! So maybe we have Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday to thank for that turn of events!

Banasa wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:00 pm Not that I was going to purchase this either way, but Jason Goes To Hell has got to be one of the ugliest horror film posters I've seen. The giant penis-y monster just would scream to me "stay far away from this film" both now and in 90s.

I’ll never forget passing by a billboard with it every day for at least 2 months in Santa Monica. It’s pretty amazing that it got approved by New Line’s marketing department

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Ironically its big scene does involve it doing exactly what you would imagine it does to an unconscious Erin Gray.

That's perhaps the most iffy moment of the film, but a lot of the rest of the film has a kind of nasty-toned approach to its characters. The initial gross out moment of the coroner having the inexplicable munchies for Jason's heart comes to mind. As does the weird attempt at comedy(?) of the bounty hunter progressively breaking the individual fingers of the main character's hand when he gets questions wrong. That leaves nobody left to really root for in the film, which even at their worst all the other films managed to do to some extent.

I binged the entire series last year, and while this film isn't good by any means, I am sympathetic to it for attempting to go a different route than it's predecessors with its weird ass worm/testicle creature thing. However, I could also be giving it a bit too much leeway since I genuinely despised Jason Goes to Manhattan and this was like a breath of fresh air after watching that piece of garbage.