Director: Joseph Zito
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Writer: Barney Cohen
Stars: Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Ted White
FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984)
Spoiler alert: It’s not the final chapter. Guess how many FRIDAY THE 13TH DVDs I own? Ten. This is the fourth. Despite its now-laughable misnomer, FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER does ring of finality when it winds to its end. Aside from that, THE FINAL CHAPTER is, in the best possible way, more of the same—if bloodier, sexier (although PART 3 is nearly equal), and a significant step up in quality.
THE FINAL CHAPTER begins—like HALLOWEEN II (1981)—in the hospital following the killing spree of the last film. Unlike in HALLOWEEN II, the spectator follows not the survivor but the corpses into the ward. Two police officers wheel in body bags, rolling their eyes at the distracted flirtation of the nurses. As is so often the case in FRIDAY THE 13TH, such obliviousness will cost them dearly. A body bag disappears from the hospital that night—and the Camp Blood stalker returns to his turf to terrorize a new wave of camping teenagers.
WILDERNESS 