Jason is gonna meet his match now, another Voorhees is still alive. Jason finds yet another camper at the lake one night and just when he's about to strike, the FBI attacks. The sting operation worked and Jason is blown sky-high. But his heart has miraculous regeneration powers and soon at the coroner's office, it begins to work its magic and Jason's soul enters the coroner's body. With the new flesh, Jason goes on a rampage trying to find the one Voorhees who can give him his own body. But a bounty hunter, Creighton Duke, knows Jason's secret of body-switching and what can stop Jason forever. But he's playing hard to get and soon the whole family will be begging for him to help. Jessica is the Voorhees in question and Stephen is her boyfriend, and they have a tiny Voorhees waiting to grow up. Jason will find them but can Duke's info save them or will Jason live on, forever? Death Count = 20; Overall Count = 135
Overall: Well this film easily has more gore than all of the films. But major problems exist anyway. The film goes into Jason's past, birth, parents, etc., but seems to ignore all prior films. No info on what has kept him alive for so long, why he can't die, why he kills people. They also put a confirmed death count in the film at 83, obviously failing to include some films. The film fails with regards to the series because Jason isn't really Jason, he's everyone else. So you get this "Fallen" sort of feeling and you can't ever tell who Jason is, until someone dies. It removes the little mystique left in the series when Jason is hardly in it. Also, the film seems to take from other films to make it interesting. We have the Necronomicon, the book of the dead from "The Evil Dead" series, in the old house. There is also the dagger similar to one in "The Omen" series used here to stab Jason with. This was the only film made in the 1990's and will remain so with part 10 out in 2002. Funny that you get the first 8 movies in a 9 year span in the 80's, then 1 in 10 years. Lastly, you do get to see Freddy Kruger make a small and brief appearance (or let us say, his glove does) which is interesting given the film was made in 1992, released in 1993 and the 2 won't meet until 2003. 10 years in the making, eh? (written 1999)
12/26/04 What makes this final cut of the film so interesting is everything that was removed or discarded as the process went on. I've copied this from the IMDB:
Scenes in the network television version that do not appear in director's cut:
- A scene in the cafe in which Steven makes a mock-prank phone call.
- Addional dialogue in Robert and Duke's interview scene.
- Additional dialogue in the scene where Randy and Steven fight on the roadside and pull guns on one another.
- Extended scene in diner before Diana meets Duke.
- Brief scene of Randy cuffing Steven before taking him to his cell.
- Ed (chief) is introduced to Robert and tells him not to exploit Jessica as Jason's sister in the media.
- Extended scene of Jessica giving Vicki the baby.
- Extended scene of Jessica walking through her darkened house after Jason cuts the power. She is seen slipping on the stairs and cutting her foot.
- Slightly extended scene of Vicki entering the diner with the baby.
Scenes in director's cut that do not appear in the R-rated version:
- The sex scene is longer and more graphic.
- Much more gory violence; nearly all characters cough up blood as they are being killed, the shot of the tent pole being rammed through the girl, the shot of the chubby guy's hand being broken off, the shot of Robert(Jason) crushing the girl's head and blood spurting out (she then says "go to hell"), Coroner(Jason swings the scalpel more times at the girl outside the tent.
- The shot of the creature crawling up Diana's dress was also omitted from the R-rated version.
- After Jason leaves Josh's body, his jaw can be seen on the floor as it melts. This was cut for the "R" rated version. The "R" version also omits most of the heart-eating scene near the beginning.
The following cuts were made (some of the cuts were made in order to avoid an "NC-17" rating from the MPAA):
- At the beginning, before Jason gets blown up by the FBI, the female cop shoots Jason in the head.
- The fighting scene between Steven and Jason is longer. At one point Steven hides inside the climbing rack as Jason tries to grab him.
- We see Duke being brought in the police station. Duke is brought in, having been found standing over the empty morgue cabinet that had held Diana's (Erin Gray) body. What was he doing there? "Trying to steal the body, obviously," Duke explains irritably, "but you f**ked up and let someone get to it before I could....if it's where I think it is, you're in a world of s**t."
- In the morgue we see the coroner get some instruments from a cabinet.
- More dialogue in the Duke interview.
- The original ending where Steven kicks the knife in Jason's chest. Besides the giant hands there is also a creature which pulls down Jason into the ground.
Jason in the body of Josh kills the boyfriend of one of the waitresses after we see some dialogue between them and she leaves. Jason bangs the guy's head against a sink.
- After the creature escapes Randy's body we see Duke fighting with it before it falls down the basement. Then there is a different dialogue where Steven asks Duke if the Voorhees which Jason has to be reborn trough must be alive.
- Another dialogue where Robert Campbell talks on the phone in the Voorhees house while Steven hides in the closet. He says Jessica can never shut up about her family and he runs down the whole Voorhees family tree.
- For the final edit, the character David (Jonathan Penner) and his murder were completely cut from the film. In bootleg prints, the character is dispatched by Deputy Josh (Andrew Bloch), who has been possessed by the Jason entity and who bashes David's head against a faucet.
The following appear in the workprint version only:
- Alternate dialogue in the cell scene with Steven and Duke.
- After Steven escapes from the police station, there is a scene showing him hide outside the diner as Vickie enters it.
- More dialogue in the scene where Ward finds Steven in the back of the diner adoring his baby.
- Before Jessica goes outside her house where Jason (in Robert's body) attacks her, she is shown inside the dark house looking around the living room, and jumping at the sudden lightning storm.
- The creature that Duke fights with has grown to become a full-sized demon before Duke throws it into the basement.
- The original script by Jay Huguely featured Jason's brother Elias as the killer and included backstory about Pamela Voorhees' involvement in the occult. It was decided, however, that Jason needed to be the focus of the film, and Dean Lorey was brought in to re-configure the storyline. Hence, the brother was jettisoned, and the first name Elias was assigned to Jason's father.
- The camping scene with the ill-fated Luke, Deborah and Alexis, was not part of the original script. When test audiences in early 1993 complained about the lack of sex and teenaged characters, the scene was subsequently written and filmed during a new shoot.
My Title: Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason isn't Jason
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