Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

DIRECTED BY: John Carl Buechler

WRITTEN BY: Daryl Haney, Manuel Fidello

MUSIC BY: Henry Manfredini and Fred Mollin

RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

STARING: Lar Park Lincoln; Kevin Blair; Susan Jennifer Sullivan; Terry Kiser; Susan Blu; Elizabeth Keitan; Jeff Bennett; Jon Renfield; Diane Almeida; Craig Thomas; Diana Barrows; Larry Cox; Heidi Kozak; and Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees

PLOT:

Film opens with a little girl and her family at a cabin on Crystal Lake. The girl telepathically collapses a dock, which kills her abusive father. Flash forward several years. Tina, her mom, and a doctor who wants to study her telepathy regardless of the risk to her return to the cabin. She stands over the lake and tries to revive her dad, who's body is still at the bottom of the lake. She instead revives Jason Voorhees who proceeds to slaughter the horny teenagers in the cabin next door.

MYTHOS INFORMATION:

  • 2 signs are seen that have distances to Crystal Lake, not Lake Forest Green. The name has been changed back some time between this and the previous film.

    STORY:

    After part 6 made some money bringing Jason back Paramount decided that he had enough life left in him for another adventure. Frank Mancuso Jr. returned as Executive Producer. Make-up effects man John Carl Buechler as brought in to direct. A script was written that could almost be described as Carrie vs. Jason. The movie was filmed in Baldwin County, Alabama with a non-union crew under the fake title Birthday Bash.

    As on some of the previous films Henry Manfredini did not have time to write a complete score. Originally they planed for him to score part of it and use some of his music from the previous ones. He ended up being completely unavailable, so Mancuso Jr. brought in Fred Mollin, who worked on the Friday the 13th TV show. Mollin wrote all of the new music which appears in the movie along side tracks from the previous ones. The movie was released on (Friday) May 13, 1988 and did respectable box office numbers.

    TRIVIA:

  • Grossed $19.17 million domestically.

  • Jason was played by actor/stuntman Kane Hodder in this one. Hodder went on to become the actor most identified with the character.

    DEATHS:

  • Mr. Shepard (John Otrin): Drowns after standing on a dock that is telepathically collapsed by his daughter
  • Jane (Staci Greason): Tent spike to the throat
  • Michael (William Butler): Tent spike to the back
  • Dan (Michael Schroeder): Neck broken
  • Judy (Debora Kessler): Thrown into a tree while in her sleeping bag
  • Russell (Larry Cox): Decapitated with an ax
  • Sandra (Heidi Kozak): Pulled underwater & drowned
  • Maddy (Diana Barrows): Scythe to the neck
  • Ben (Craig Thomas): Skull crushed
  • Kate (Diane Almeida): Party horn shoved through the eye
  • David (Jon Renfield): Stabbed in the stomach with a butcher knife
  • Eddie (Jeff Bennett): Decapitated with a machete
  • Robin (Elizabeth Keitan): Thrown out a second story window
  • Mrs. Shepard (Susan Blu): Spear to the back
  • Dr. Crews (Terry Kiser): Gutted with a weed whacker
  • Melissa (Susan Jennifer Sullivan): Ax to the face
  • Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder): Pulled underwater and killed by a temporally revived Mr. Shepard

    • SEX/NUDITY

  • T&A, as Sandra (Heidi Kozak) goes skinny dipping; brief full frontal as she is killed underwater
  • Kate (Diane Almeida) has a VERY brief tit shot while having sex with Ben (Craig Thomas)
  • Several tit shots of Robin (Elizabeth Keitan) after having sex with Eddie (Jeff Bennett)
  • NOTE: Sandra (Heidi Kozak) is another follower of the no underwear trend that began in part 2. Watch as she undresses to go skinny dipping

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