Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Name: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: May 13, 1988
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 13
Cast: Heidi Kozak, Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Kane Hodder, Kevin Spirtas

1988

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Friday The 13Th, Part 7: The New Blood

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 13, 1988 | X

Starring: Heidi Kozak, Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Kane Hodder, Kevin Spirtas, Lar Park-Lincoln, Susan Blu, Susan Jennifer Sullivan, Terry Kiser, William Butler

Summary: Informally known as "Carrie vs. Jason". Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the dormant Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a telekinetic teenager.

Director: John Carl Buechler

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: X

Runtime: 88 min

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Staff (Not Credited)

Although their duel offers original effects-laden thrills and stunts, it’s too little and too late. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The series went from self-parody back to normal with this dull entry. Read full review

Caryn James

The New Blood only wishes it had something really new to add to the formula...There is a lot less blood, less screaming, less energy in this installment, as if Jason has become rather bored with his job. Read full review

Gene Siskel

The result is a weak "Carrie" versus Jason finale after Jason has impaled about eight young people, mostly women. The filmmakers have mastered the blood but not the tedium of all of the predictable killings. Nor have they eliminated the "hate-women" subtext to the entire series of films. [20 May 1988, p.A]

Johanna Steinmetz

It relies heavily upon the cliches of the genre: sorties into garishly lit woods, crackling twigs, indiscriminate lightning bolts, sudden power outages and flickering flashlights. Only a mote of humor graces the film, and that is Jason's cunning ability to come up with ever more dreadful weapons for each successive crime, graduating from stake to machete to circular saw. Dare we hope, in Part VIII, for a neutron bomb to obliterate the series altogether? [16 May 1988, p.C7]

Richard Harrington

What we have here is basically "Jason vs. Carrie" with neither the visceral shock of the first "Friday the 13th" nor the subtleties of the Stephen King tale. In fact, "VII" is a catalogue of cheap self-imitation, from director John Carl Buechler's constant pulling of visual punches to the script's regurgitated cliche's from earlier "Fridays." The ending is the stupidest one ever and that's saying something. Read full review

Steve Davis

It's the same old story, seven times around, you just can't keep a good corpse down. ’Spite a massacre the film before, To Crystal Lake, they keep coming more. And one by one, they end up dead – a sliitted throat; an axe in the head. Read full review

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Killerhorror

Dec 9, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Friday the 13th part 7 starts off with a weird introduction but quickly turns good by the telekinesis final girl the story and acting is awesome and it has an amazing ending plus it is finally a final girl that is a match for Jason because of her telekenectic powers and it is pretty much Carrie white vs Jason vorhees… Expand

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Markus1998

Feb 11, 2020

This Film Brings out the best of Jason Voorhees , it also debuts Kane hodder to play the role as the masked killer

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Rcavey92212

Mar 10, 2020

2020 MOVIE #128:

FRIDAY THE 13TH- THE BEW BLOOD This is by far my favorite Friday flick. Maybe because it was the first I demanded to see in theaters at 9 y/o. Or maybe because it was secretly nicknamed "Frigay the 13th" because of the boys hooking up behind the scenes as well as 4 out gay2020 MOVIE #128:

FRIDAY THE 13TH- THE BEW BLOOD

This is by far my favorite Friday flick. Maybe because it was the first I demanded to see in theaters at 9 y/o. Or maybe because it was secretly nicknamed "Frigay the 13th" because of the boys hooking up behind the scenes as well as 4 out gay actors which include Nick, the main hottie played by Kevin Spirtas ( After Forever) and the adorable William Butler (Leatherface texas chainsaw massacre 3). Or maybe I was just a sucker for the campy, superfun concept which finally gave Mr. Hockey mask some real competition in the form of Tina Shepeard played by Lar Par Lincoln (House 2) a fierce final girl with the powers of telekinesis. That's mostly it but I also feel like this is the one where I started to fall in love with Jason because the makeup is awe inspiring and is performed brilliantly by the wonderful Kane Hodder. No matter what it is, I absolutely love this slasher flick it's near perfect in my eyes and just so damn entertaining. Plus it has the best poster of the series and pretty much ever in my opinion.

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Kaijukai

Aug 13, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Friday the 13th part 7 the new blood is a very mediocre movie its not bad but it's not bad but it certainly isn't a good movie either. we follow a girl named Tina throughout the story and she is telekinetic and goes to Crystal lake for her doctor. when tina was a kid she killed her father with her powers, when she goes back to where she killed him with her powers she tries to bring back her father and I think Jason and Tina's father are two very different people so as you expect she brings Jason back to life and he tears up the camp kills some teens and that's the movie. the final showdown was really fun because this is the first time Jason had somebody that really challenged him and at the end oh my god the end alright get this...TINA SUMMONS HER FATHER TO DRAG JASON DOWN INTO THE WATER what!! anyway that's the review thanks for reading have a great day… Expand

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imthenoob

Oct 23, 2018

There's a lot of bad acting and some pretty awful writing all around but the fun kills were a plus and seeing Jason finally go toe to toe with someone gave for a pretty good final battle, despite having an awful ending.

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JLau

Sep 27, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Girl kills her father using telekinesis but accidentally frees Jason from the chains keeping him in the lake, then fights Jason with her telekinesis before her father's spirit chains Jason up again.… Expand

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MoviezNP

Mar 9, 2019

This movie was so f**king horrible that I didn't feel like talking a lot about it. So, the review shall feel a little short. .
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Mixed : The concept of the film sounds good, at least tolerable. That's all. . . Bad. This movie is just F**KING BAD! I don't know properly, but I feel as if theThis movie was so f**king horrible that I didn't feel like talking a lot about it. So, the review shall feel a little short. .
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Mixed : The concept of the film sounds good, at least tolerable. That's all. .
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Bad. This movie is just F**KING BAD! I don't know properly, but I feel as if the idea of this movie was conceived from Nightmare 3 and its popularity, but that's it. The idea for this film is quite similar to that of Nightmare 3, or at least a character of Nightmare 3. A girl with telekinetic powers is all set to f**k Jason up. In paper, I admit, it sounds great. But it AIN'T. All we know about that girl is that she can do telekinesis and is suffering from a loss and a regret. That's it. Rest of the film is just boring a$$ s**tty Friday the 13th film. I talked about boring characters in these films, this one's got the totally boring f**ks. It feels like going in the screen and asking Jason to kill all of them as fast as possible. This literally has nothing. Jason kills a bunch of motherf**kers. The ones to be killed have sex and exhibit nudity. That's literally the entire movie. It does nothing else. At all. Plus, to make it worse, they have a plotline with a doctor trying to cure the girl with telekinesis, which makes no sense. And she does many things which are supposedly "cool", but are not. And some plot holes here and there involving the telekinesis lady. There's nothing redeeming about this movie. It's just awfully bad. The reason it's shorter? Well, it has nothing to be reviewed at all. .
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Score : absolute 0/10
Grade : F**k this movie… Expand

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