Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday is the ninth instalment in the Friday the 13th film series.

Much like The Final Chapter, the film sported a misleading title due to being followed (as of 2005) by two films, with at least a third expected. When released, it was marketed as the end of the series. However, later VHS and DVD releases of the film feature cover art that only reads Jason Goes to Hell, conspicuously leaving the subtitle out.

The film is not regarded highly by fans, that while appreciation is commended for attempting to do something different, it came at the cost of the continuity that held Paramount's films together (an example would be that none of the previous eight films make mention of Jason having a sister). Many have also mocked the concept of Jason's new ability of possession, seeing it as too reminiscent of The Hidden, with an additional complaint going to having too little of Jason in the film. It is, along with A New Beginning and Jason Takes Manhattan, one of the most criticized entries.

It is a usual night in Crystal Lake with Jason Voorhees on the hunt again, but this time the brutal serial killer is on the wrong end of an FBI sting. He gets blown to pieces. But when his remains are sent to a morgue, the coroner is hypnotized by Jason's beating black heart and consumes it. Somehow, this causes him to be possessed by the demonic spirit of Jason. As the dark spirit jumps from host to host, 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 through a Voorhees can he truly be destroyed. After the murder of Jessica Kimble's mother, it is up to reluctant hero Steven Freeman 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.

Trivia

* In the Voorhees home (which is never seen in any of the other films), the Necronomicon from The Evil Dead trilogy is sitting on a table.
* John D. LeMay also appeared in the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series, making him the only actor to appear in both the film series and the television series.
* The only film in which Jason is not seen unmasked (the final scene before the credits show the hockey mask alone), excluding Part V.
* The film features Kane Hodder's only other performance in the series aside from playing Jason. He plays one of the two security guards that the possessed coroner kills (Kane's character, amusingly, is the one to call Jason "a big old pussy"). He also provides Freddy Krueger's arm in the final scene.
* Contrary to popular belief, Freddy's hand coming up and pulling down Jason's mask in the final shot was not meant to be a set-up to the long-awaited Freddy vs. Jason. By the filmmakers' own admission, it was meant to be nothing more than a sight gag, New Line's original monster welcoming in their newest acquisition. This unintentional crossover extends to the Evil Dead prop used in the film, as the K.N.B. team had just come off Army of Darkness and director Sam Raimi lent it to the filmmakers. The Necronomicon was not meant to have any significance to the Voorhees legacy, but its presence has unwittingly led to fan-based rumours of bringing Ash into a future film.
* The film was released 13 years after the original Friday the 13th.