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

In 1987, there wasn't a sequel to add to the "Friday the 13th" horror saga. David Cronenberg's "The Fly", re-make in 1986, with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, and Chuck Russell's "A nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors", co-written by Wes Craven, made sure Freddy Krueger, (Robert Englund), gave teenagers having bad dreams three decades ago, were Box Office hits; Russell followed up with "The Blob", re-make in 1988, while Cronenberg's next movie, "Dead Ringers", with Jeremy Irons, caused controversy in Canada, and was an art-house success in Australia. "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", directed by special effects wizard John Carl Buechler, was written by Daryl Haney, and Miguel Fidello, became the most cut sequel since Steve Miner's "Friday the 13th Part 2", (1981), seven year's before. Miner that year produced and directed the historical/modern horror hybrid movie "Warlock", was a success,  while the seventh movie in the franchise was released only on VHS video.
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Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), became the latest actor/stuntman to play the hockey masked killer, made his screen debut in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", (1988), that was only released on VHS in video stores across Australia in the late 1980's.
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Part VII is a cross between Stephen King's "Carrie", (1974), Brian De Palma, 1976, (movie), and John Farris's "The Fury", (1976), also directed by De Palma in 1978, that deals with telekinetic children, (and teenagers), that was popular in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties. The movie concerns a young Tina Shepard, (Jennifer Banko), whose gifts are exploited her mother, Amanda, (Susan Blu), and her husband John Shepard, (John Otrin); when she grows up, she, (now played as a teenager by Lar Park Lincoln), is seventeen year's old, and is also exploited by Doctor Crews MD, (Terry Kiser), who thinks he is able to control her. With the voice-over of Crazy Ralph, (Walt Gorney), from the first two "Friday the 13th" movies, that deals with the previous deaths. In a 'fit of anger', she storms out of a session with the doctor, she heads to the bridge of Camp Crystal Lake, and uses her rage to bring back Jason Voorhees, (Kane Hodder), to life through the use of her powers, as a result the killer begins to attack the new campers, (and counsellors), in the process. With music by Harry Manfredini and Fred Mollin, the sixth sequel is more terrifying, even if the source material covers other horror books and movies as well.
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