Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

    Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
    1988

    Synopsis

    Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave.

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    Cast

    • Lar Park LincolnTina Shepard
    • Kane HodderJason Voorhees
    • Terry KiserDr. Crews
    • Kevin SpirtasNick
    • Susan Jennifer SullivanMelissa
    • Debora KesslerJudy
    • Elizabeth KaitanRobin
    • Staci GreasonJane
    • Jennifer BankoYoung Tina Shepard
    • John OtrinJohn Shepard

    Recommendations

    • 40

      Variety

      Although their duel offers original effects-laden thrills and stunts, it’s too little and too late.
    • 30

      The New York Times

      The New Blood only wishes it had something really new to add to the formula...There is a lot less blood, less screaming, less energy in this installment, as if Jason has become rather bored with his job.
    • 30

      TV Guide Magazine

      The series went from self-parody back to normal with this dull entry.
    • 25

      Miami Herald

      This would all be a lot more fun if Jason were ever in jeopardy, but since we know he can't be killed -- the best one can hope to do is bottle him up and store him, like toxic waste -- the charm of the film depends on action in the margins. Part VI, for instance, had a sense of humor; II and III had a splendid variety of weaponry. No jokes this time, however, and Jason contents himself for the most part with the ax blow, the tent-pole stab and the simple head-twist. He's old, and he has lost a step. [17 May 1988, p.B4]
    • 25

      Chicago Tribune

      The result is a weak "Carrie" versus Jason finale after Jason has impaled about eight young people, mostly women. The filmmakers have mastered the blood but not the tedium of all of the predictable killings. Nor have they eliminated the "hate-women" subtext to the entire series of films. [20 May 1988, p.A]
    • 12

      Chicago Tribune

      It relies heavily upon the cliches of the genre: sorties into garishly lit woods, crackling twigs, indiscriminate lightning bolts, sudden power outages and flickering flashlights. Only a mote of humor graces the film, and that is Jason's cunning ability to come up with ever more dreadful weapons for each successive crime, graduating from stake to machete to circular saw. Dare we hope, in Part VIII, for a neutron bomb to obliterate the series altogether? [16 May 1988, p.C7]
    • 10

      Washington Post

      What we have here is basically "Jason vs. Carrie" with neither the visceral shock of the first "Friday the 13th" nor the subtleties of the Stephen King tale. In fact, "VII" is a catalogue of cheap self-imitation, from director John Carl Buechler's constant pulling of visual punches to the script's regurgitated cliche's from earlier "Fridays." The ending is the stupidest one ever and that's saying something.
    • 10

      Los Angeles Times

      It's been theorized that the popularity of the "Friday the 13th" movies is because the juxtaposing of scenes of lovemaking and extreme violence somehow eases young people's sexual fears. However, this "Friday the 13th", which was written by Daryl Haney and Manuel Fidello and directed by John Carl Buechler, is so dumb and contrived it's hard to imagine it working up any feelings except boredom. [17 May 1988, p.C3]

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