Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Short description
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter picks up after the events of the previous entry, with Jason Voorhees declared dead and taken to a hospital morgue. He revives there, kills staff members and makes his way back toward Crystal Lake. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers has rented a house nearby for a weekend of partying, and the Jarvis family is staying at their home next door. Twelve-year-old Tommy Jarvis, his sister Trish and their mother become caught up in the violence. Among the young people is Rob Dier, who has his own reasons for being at the lake.
The film was released in April 1984 and runs 91 minutes. Joseph Zito directed it, working from a screenplay by Barney Cohen, with Frank Mancuso Jr. producing. It was Zito's second feature as director, following The Prowler in 1981, and it came before Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A. The large credited cast of 54 includes Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Erich Anderson, Judie Aronson, Joan Freeman and Barbara Howard.
Made for about 3 million dollars, the film took roughly 33 million worldwide, a strong return on its budget. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6 out of 10 from more than 57,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 6.1 from a smaller number of votes. A film critics' rating of 4.2 out of 10 from 33 reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Judy Aronson, who played Samantha, spent hours naked in front of the entire creative crew during the filming of the bathing scene because the director refused to close the set or limit the personnel on it, as doing so would have required additional filming time.
- Actor Ted White, who played Jason, refused to interact with the other actors on set. He believed this would diminish their fear of Jason. He also refused to be credited in the titles, as he was initially ashamed of the role and only agreed to play it for a good fee.
- In the original script version, the character of Corey Feldman was supposed to decapitate Jason in the finale, but Tom Savini managed to "defend" the head of the main "hero," thus ensuring subsequent sequels.
- Tom Savini, the original special effects artist from the first film, returned to the series to work on “The Final Chapter.”
- In the strange dance at the party, Crispin Glover performed the same moves he once did in nightclubs. During filming, he danced to AC/DC's "Back in Black," but during editing, it was replaced by the song "Love Is a Lie" by the band Lion.
- The first murder in this film occurs precisely at the 13th minute.
- When it came time to film the famous scene in which Jason pulls Tommy (played by Corey Feldman) out of the house through a broken window, White was supposed to grab Feldman beforehand, but he waited a few seconds. Feldman decided that something had gone wrong and that filming had stopped. Just as Feldman relaxed, White grabbed him, causing Feldman to scream in terror (the scream turned out to be completely natural and not at all acted).
- Before working on this film, director Joseph Zito shot the horror movie "Stranger" (1981). When it came to "Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter," he was told that he would still have to write the screenplay before filming began. Zito tried to refuse, but he was forced to comply based on his signed contract. Zito secretly enlisted Barney Cohen to help write the script. Every evening, Zito would call producer Phil Scuderi and discuss the plot and screenplay of the upcoming film at length. The next morning, he would go to Cohen in New York, convey Scuderi's ideas, and together they would incorporate them into the script, which was then sent to Scuderi in Boston to be discussed again that evening.
- The film features 13 corpses.
- It wasn't until the fourth installment that the filmmakers finally revealed Jason's mother's name – until then, the character of Betsy Palmer was simply referred to as "Mrs. Voorhees".
- During the filming of the movie, Ted White kept his distance from the others so that socializing would not dispel their fear of Jason.
- Due to the limited budget allocated for filming, some dangerous stunts had to be performed by the actors themselves. Judy Aronson, for example, sat in the icy lake water herself, and Peter Barton performed his own shower scene where his character is attacked. Ted White, who played Jason, repeatedly defended the actors, requesting that something soft be laid down for Barton during the shower scene. He even threatened to quit the production when Joseph Zito would not allow Aronson to get out of the water between takes; the water was so cold that the actress broke down in tears and later fell ill with hypothermia. Eventually, White and Zito reached an agreement and work on the film continued, but White demanded that his name be removed from the credits and called the movie "piece of shit."
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