Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood (DVD)

The norm with a series of films is that the first couple are of a good standard, then it all goes downhill. For some reason though, Friday The 13th started off rotten and then became watchable round about number 6. An unusual turn of events. That doesn't mean, however, that any of the later films are really that good. They are still by-the-numbers slasher fare for a hormonal teenage audience thrilled by the slaugher of their peers. In number 7, Jason lurks beneath the waters of Crystal Lake, having being previously chained to the waterbed by Tommy Jarvis. However, he is soon raised from the dead by a girl with the power of telekenesis. She has her own ...  Read the complete review

You can't keep a good slasher movie down. Unfortuntaley you can't keep a bad one down either which is why we have part 7 of the 9 Friday the 13th movies on review here. Jason is back again but this time in a rather weird plot involving psychics which turns the movie into something like Jason vs Carrie... The movie begins back at Chrystal Lake again...why it is called Chrystal lake when the last movie told us that it had changed its name to Forest somethingorother is beyond me, but back there we are. Jason is dead(again) and floating around at the bottom of the lake following his final run-in with Tommy. However, dead too and at the bottom of the lake is ...  Read the complete review

They just keep making them and people just keep going to see them, they never carry on properly from each other. The effects and storylines get worse and how many times are people going to go to Crystal Lake when lots of people have died again and again, its happen SIX times already for Gods sake. Anyway after siting on the bottom of Crystal Lake, Jason is released from his watery grave by a telekinetic girl called Lisa. A distraught little Tina dreams of the time when she believes she drowned her father with her anger-triggered psychic powers. A trip back to Crystal Lake is supposed to help Tina, but her doctor merely wants to exploit her. In a rage, Tina ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, Friday the 13th part 7 was originally released in 1988 and is available on region 2 DVD for around £5. Disturbed by a traumatic childhood incident at Crystal Lake, Tina Shepard has spent most of her life undergoing psychiatric treatment. Apparently possessing some kind of telekinetic capabilities, Tina blames herself for killing her father after an emotionally-charged row at the side of the lake. Returning years later with her mother and her psychiatric doctor for further treatment, Tina befriends a group of teenagers in the house next door. Struggling to contain her emotional turmoil, Tina once again finds herself at the edge of the ...  Read the complete review

Having camped matters up in the sixth instalment (no pun intended), where could this stalk 'n slash series go? Well, the direction with Friday the 13th series seems to be all about going into excess. This is no carefully plotted saga, my friends. This is movie franchising at its most cynical. Each subsequent episode provided either more violence or more sex or was generally more over the top in tone. Having decided that Jason could be a zombie in Part VI it seemed perfectly reasonable that Part VII could have a telekinetic heroine and her alcoholic father rising from his watery grave! Friday the 13th Part VII just picked up the ball thrown to it by its very ...  Read the complete review