FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD

Tina is a girl with paranormal abilities (telekinesis) who as a child had accidentally caused the drowning death of her violent father in the waters of Crystal Lake. Tina had been locked away in a psychiatric hospital ever since until one day her doctor decides to take her back to Crystal Lake, where the accident happened, for therapeutic purposes. Unintentionally, Tina, with her powers, manages to break the chains that kept Jason imprisoned at the bottom of the lake and, once free, the Crystal Lake killer resumes the massacre against a group of young people who had gathered in a cabin on the lake's shore to celebrate a birthday. "Friday the 13th Part 7" tiredly rehashes the same story as the previous chapters, introducing as the only novelty the girl with paranormal powers. Therefore, the protagonist changes: goodbye Tommy, who in chapter 6 had become a caricature of himself, and hello Tina, a girl with psychological problems, constant feelings of guilt for her nefarious past, great mental powers, and victim of the special attentions of her greedy doctor. An attempt is thus made to focus the plot more on the character development of the protagonist and her interpersonal relationships, but in the end the film fails in this attempt; in fact, throughout the duration, the same clichés of the saga are tiredly repeated: the typical group of unpleasant young people in heat; the inevitable nighttime bath in the lake; the usual body count with knife killings and the typical discovery of corpses in the final part. However, unlike the previous films, "The Blood Flows Again" also turns out to be quite boring in the first part; it presents unimaginative murders repeating those of the previous episodes and contains a more moderate dose of gore. Then, the final climax, in which the confrontation between Jason and the new "Carrie" takes place, also seems quite ridiculous: it is a humiliation to see the old glory Jason Voorhees fall under the blows of televisions, lamps, and sofas hurled against him with the power of the mind. This time, the direction has been entrusted to the special effects technician John Carl Buechler, also the author of the mediocre "Ork". "Friday the 13th Part 7" is one of the lowest steps reached by the saga; suitable only for "Jasonians" in the final stage.