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

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM

    I've always been a big fan of this one....probably because it hit theaters when I was in the 7th grade (a prime age for nostalgic attachment), and a photo in Gorezone of a body whose face had been split down the middle with a hatchet (cut from the movie, sadly) had been the nastiest thing I had ever seen at that point. I didn't get a chance to see the movie until the VHS came along, but I bought a previously viewed copy with a hefty chunk of my first paycheck at my first job (a mom-and-pop video store called Videovision). I still have that copy, and stand tall in my support of the movie, despite the fact that it really isn't, you know, any good. I never thought about Tina's character being a lost Elm Street-er before, but that could explain it too as I've always been a bigger fan of Freddy than Friday. Anyway, thanks for the blog, I'm an almost-daily reader, and I always enjoy the reviews regardless of whether or not I agree.

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  2. The Fiji MermaidJanuary 15, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    I'm a fan of this one. Alot of the faults you identify are valid for sure. Those things don't bring the movie down for me. It's not as good as part IV or VI, but still enjoyable to me.

    I believe this was originally supposed to be a Freddy vs Jason film but Paramount and New Line couldn't come to an agreement so Paramount proceeded and Freddy became a telekinetic girl. That being said it's different enough that the end battle of her beating him with things was fun to me. The best part about this movie is Jason's make-up/look. His look really shows the damage he has taken over the course of 6 movies and it really turned out well.

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  3. Slightly ScaryJanuary 21, 2009 at 8:01 AM

    I love the The New Blood. They tried something different with this one, and I can only appreciate them for it. The film definitely has it's "WTF" moments. Seriously, where did Jason get a weed-eater with a buzzsaw blade in the middle of the woods at that time of night?

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2009 at 7:22 AM

    I must admit I recently watched this and really enjoyed it.

    Yes everything you noted wrong with it is in fact true but I still think it's one of the better ones in the series.

    Never thought about the idea of them trying to copy the Freddy movies but I really didn't like those that much so that might be why it worked for me here

    For some reason the pacing of this movie really worked for me plus Jason looked bad ass

    then again my favorite Jason movie has always been Part 8 so what the hell do i know anyway

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  5. BlaFebruary 8, 2009 at 1:59 AM

    This and Part 2 are my favorite.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 4:23 AM

    It... sigh... well, there's... sigh... I'm sorry, even though I loved this movie as a kid, it sucks donkey nuts now. Kane Hodder and the best Jason makeup in the series (hopefully Nispel will trump it in the remake) are pretty much the only things worth watching this for. I can't even defend it by saying (lying) that it sets up the whole Freddy vs. Jason thing started in Final Friday by introducing a lost Elm Street Dream Warrior teen. It just sucks ass. Not as bad as 8... just bad.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    I actually thought this one was worse than 8.

    I felt it fell through in quality between 6 and 7..
    6 was a great quality. it was a jump up from 5 big time. I loved that 80s movie look.
    7 went down from there. I really wasnt a fan that much.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM

    This is my fav after part IV so go figure. I'll take The New Blood anyday over the watered down remake... I also loved the character of Maddy, the nerdy girl.

    Oh, who could forget Melissa the bitch who gets her head wacked with the axe, good times.

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  9. MiskatonicMarch 11, 2010 at 7:37 PM

    My parents never let me watch horror movies so I had to sneak a few here and there. I used to get excited about new horror movies when I'd see the trailers, and then that was it. So, now I'm watching all of the horror movies I got excited about as a kid but never got to see. I saw the trailer for this one a hundred times and I remember the shot of Jason starting up that trimmer. I thought that was so damn cool. Now, I got to see it in context. It was cool to discover which movie that was from. One less thing I need to do before I die.

    Anyway, for a Friday the 13th film, I thought this was perfectly adequate. As has been said, he looked cooler here then ever before. I was surprised how much I liked the characters and I cared when a few of them were killed. The addition of the telekinetic girl wasn't great, but I didn't hate it either. If someone can give me a non-ridiculous reason for Jason's constant resurrections then I'll be happy to renounce the telekinetic addition.

    I thought it was cool that "Jason in the Water" killed Tina's father many years earlier. However, I didn't like that he popped out of the water to pull Jason in. Either this is a very arbitrary plot point, or this means that Crystal Lake is possibly the source of Jason's resurrections. That might be kinda of a cool idea if countless Jason victims hadn't been killed in the lake and never came back to life. Therefore, it was just a stupid idea which made no sense.

    Anyway, I think this one was just as fun and had no more holes in it than previous sequels.

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  10. AnonymousMay 14, 2011 at 5:30 AM

    We watched this on Friday the 13th as tribute and I agree with a lot of your criticisms. I would also add that I don't understand her father pulling Jason down. Was his body never recovered? Was he a corporeal manifestation of her powers? Maybe there was a piece of dialogue I missed that explained it.

    The other thing I found silly was how many times the girl used her telekinesis on Jason and assumed he was dead. "Well, the electricity didn't kill him, but I'm sure the flimsy porch collapsing on him did! Hmm. Neither of those worked, but I'm sure hitting him with a light fixture and sending him through the stairs will do it! Nails to the face? Fire?"

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