Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) on Netflix
Tommy Jarvis digs up Jason Voorhees' grave to burn the body and end his nightmares. Lightning strikes, and the killer rises. The sheriff jails Tommy for raving about a dead man.
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Plot summary
Tommy Jarvis, released from a hospital for the criminally insane, still sees flashbacks of Jason Voorhees, the killer he put down six years earlier. With his friend Allen Hawes he returns to Crystal Lake, now called Forest Green, and the two dig up Jason's grave to cremate the body. Lightning hits the metal fence post Tommy drives into the corpse, and Jason rises with superhuman strength. Tommy runs to the sheriff's office, where Sheriff Mike Garris, knowing his history, jails him as a hallucinating lunatic. Camp counselors Darren and Lizbeth disappear on the road. Garris's daughter Megan reaches town with friends Sissy, Cort and Paula to report them missing, and hears Tommy's warning about Jason.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Some of the climactic moments in the lake were actually filmed in the swimming pool of McLoughlin's father, and McLoughlin ruined the pool's filter in the process: it was jammed by gore churned into the water when Jason is hit with the boat propeller.
- Jason Lives is the only film in the franchise with no nudity, and both characters in its one sex scene stay fully clothed. Producers pressed McLoughlin to have Darcy DeMoss remove her shirt during the RV sex scene, but he only suggested the idea to her and she refused.
- McLoughlin took the film in the direction of an old Universal Monsters movie, specifically the 1931 Frankenstein, and drew on vampire lore to give Jason a weakness, being returned to his "home soil". He dropped Part 2's idea that Jason had survived drowning, presenting him instead as a supernatural force.
- After the first day of filming, Mancuso decided he disliked Bradley's appearance onscreen as Jason. The scenes Bradley had shot, in which Jason kills the paintball playing executives, stayed in the finished picture, but the rest of Jason's scenes were performed by C. J. Graham, an area restaurant manager and former soldier.
SPOILER
The original cut contained 13 killings as an in-joke, and to appease the studio McLoughlin had to add three more, bringing the total to 16: Martin the gravedigger, and the recently engaged Steven Halavex and Annette Edwards on a nighttime picnic.SPOILER
McLoughlin shot three endings. In one, Jason's mask floats to the surface of Crystal Lake; in another, a deputy locked in the jail cell reaches for the keys as the station door opens and the film abruptly ends. The producers disliked both for leaving Jason's survival ambiguous.
