John Travolta plays a bad guy in Brian De Palma's "Carrie", with Sissy Spacek. The theme and plot of a girl who uses her powers to create chaos, which is used in "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood", twelve year's later, became a horror staple in the 1970's, and 1980's.***
The movie resumes with the latest group of teenagers heading to Camp Crystal Lake: Nick, (Kevin Blair); Melissa, (Jennifer Susan Sullivan); Sandra, (Heidi Kozak); Michael, (William Butler); Jane, (Staci Greason); Russell, (Larry Cox); Eddie, (Jeff Bennett); Maddy, (Diana Barrows); Robin, (Elizabeth Kaitan), and others actors and actresses. Nick sees Tina, and befriends her. He invites her to a party, when she causes problems, as Jason Voorhees goes on a rampage. Like the other sequels, the adage have sex=death harks back to Mario Bava's 1971 classic from Italy called "A bay of blood", to John Carpenter's Halloween, (1978). By 1988, there's a shift in the "Old Jason"; the new Jason is now a zombie, like out of George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", (1968), the indie horror classic. As the deaths happen, the murders are off-screen, or edited out, as the MPAA made a lot of cuts to the movie which lessens the impact. The eventual showdown between Tina and Jason is memorable, and in the end Jason Voorhees lifts in the air, and his hockey mask lifts off, that makes him into zombie meets The Phantom of the Opera. Doctor Crews, MD, also dies in the woods, as Tina and her mother knows that he never intended to help Tina in the first place. Lastly, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is scarier and shows a new phase in the horror saga. The next sequel is another matter altogether.
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Tina and Nick struggle to survive Jason Voorhees.
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