Set years after the events of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, a teenage girl unwittingly releases Jason from the bottom of Crystal Lake, allowing him to go on another killing spree.
At first glance it's feels it borrows from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and The Dream Master is a (1988) but it echoes the likes of Carrie and Firestarter with it's left of field telekinesis, psychokinesis power's element.
It works as a direct continuation of part six, if you buy Lar Park Lincoln's as Tina Shephard mind powers the film works. The acting is not shoddy, the stunts and special effects (although they unmask Jason) hold up well enough by 80s standards. Kane Hodder as Jason steals the show, even if some of the face makeup doesn't do his performance justice.
There's zombie psycho gore galore, horrific graphic mutilations and a few obligatory nude-and-sex scenes but if you don't buy the cash-in brain power shenanigans you're not going to have a good time.
Overall, if you can accept a mad man coming back from the dead then surely you can swallow Tina's gifts, if that's the case it's not a bad ride.
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