DIRECTED BY: Joseph Zito
STORY BY: Bruce Hidemi Sakow
SCREENPLAY BY: Barney Cohen
MUSIC BY: Henry Manfredini
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures
STARING: Kimberly Beck; Corey Feldman; Joan Freeman; Judie Aronson; Barbara Howard; Peter Barton; Crispin Glover; Lawrence Monoson; Alan Hayes; Camilla More; Carey More; E. Erich Anderson
After the events in part 3 Jason is taken to the morgue. He promptly awakens and rampages his way back to crystal lake where a group of 6 teens have rented a house next door to a family that includes a young boy who is obsessed with horror makeup. The kids meet up with a pair of sexy uninhibited twins. The Jarvis family meets a man who clams to be hunting bear. Jason slaughters the teens and the hunter; who was really looking for Jason because Jason killed his sister Sandra in part 2. Tommy, the horror makeup obsessed boy, eventually kills Jason with a machete.
After having a 3D gimmick on part III helped it make more money than part II Paramount decided to try another gimmick for part VI. They decided to make this Jason's final adventure (or so they thought). They signed action director Joseph Zito to direct. They were able to lore part I's makeup effects man Tom Savini back with the promise that he would get to depict Jason's death. They filmed in Minnesota with another non-union crew and some more unknown actors.
Some of these actors did go on to mediocre accomplishments. The most successful of them was the very young Corey Feldman who went on to become an 80s flavor of the month teen idle. Kimberley Beck (Trish Jarvis) not only acted in the film she did enough of her own stunts to qualify for a stunt performers union card (NOTE: This does not contradict the above paragraph. The stunt men & actors were union people; crew members like camera operators and the like were non-union) When they were completing the film the makers could not resist the urge to stick in a possible path to a sequel. They had a freeze frame of Tommy Jarvis looking somewhat sinister accompanied by a sting on the soundtrack.
The film was shot under a thigh schedule and composer Henry Manfredini did not have the time to write a complete musical score (as on part 3). He scored the first and last reels. Music from the previous 3 was used in the rest of the film. The film was released on ( (Friday) April 13, 1984 and made nearly as much money as part 3; this was the peak of Jason's popularity.
Jason was played by one person in this movie, actor/stuntman Ted White. He hated everything about this movie except for the paycheck and received no screen credit for his role.
Makeup effects man Tom Savini came up with the idea of Jason getting hit in the head with a machete and sliding down it.