FINAL GIRL explores the slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s...and all the other horror movies I feel like talking about, too. This is life on the EDGE, so beware yon spoilers!

Feb 9, 2011

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives



I have no idea why Blogger makes these two different sizes all the time (though you can click to embiggen both of them). Science is a mystery to me!

Also, man...some of these were tough to draw all stick-i-fied (Nikki looks like a ghost, and Sheriff Garris looks like he's being intimate relationed to death or something). It's kind of interesting- though the deaths get more and more outrageous as the series progresses, they also become far less explicit, usually happening very quickly or off-screen altogether- the camera will cut to Jason as he's stabbing someone or the stabbing happens just out of frame. Yes. Kind of interesting indeed.

Other F13 Illustrated Guides:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

8 comments:

Joel said...

Jason looks like Shy Guy! Love it!

DrunkethWizerd said...

Ha. Touchy touchy death at the end.

David Robson, Proprietor, House of Sparrows said...

I'd been looking forward to this installment to see how you'd handle Nikki's death. Nicely done.

Jason does look like after all the killin' he just needs a hug at the end there.

As for the deaths getting less explicit, I got two theories: either they were running on lower budgets and substituted creative kills for intricate, time-consuming and expensive gore effects; or some suit was mindful of the growing teen audience for the franchise and asked that they reduce the amount of on-camera gore out of some weird moral compromise. I lean toward the former theory.

Paul Arrand Rodgers said...

For some reason, I'm really looking forward to Jason X.

mrgordo said...

If I must go, I pray I will go being intimate relationed to death. Preferably not by Jason, though.

Unknown said...

They were getting less explicit because of the ever annoying MPAA..

Anonymous said...

The word you're looking for is enbiggulate.

Anonymous said...

i thought the 1st death persons name was hans