Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is a slasher film that was released on August 13, 1993. It is the ninth installment in the Friday the 13th film series and the first one to be distributed by New Line Cinema. Much like the earlier installment, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the film sports a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2007) by two films. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series. The film opened in 1,355 theaters making $7.6 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film made $15.9 million, making it the third lowest grossing Friday movie. It is a normal night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting and gets blown to pieces. His grisly remains are sent to a morgue, where the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and begins to eat it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host via a demonic, snake-like worm, it is revealed by bounty hunter Creighton Duke that as through a Voorhees was Jason born, so too through one can he be reborn, and that only by the hands of a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman and Jessica to save her and their baby, for she learns that her mother was none other than Jason's unknown sister, and that in order to save her baby from the Voorhees curse, she must take up her birthright to send Jason to Hell once and for all. After Jason is defeated, a clawed glove grabs Jason's mask, and takes it to Hell. |