Line #60 Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood


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3	->''On Friday the 13th, Jason is back. But this time, someone's waiting.''
4	-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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6	The seventh ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film, released in 1988.
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8	As a young girl, Tina Shepard accidentally killed her father by using psychic abilities she didn't know she had. The guilt over his death has haunted her for a decade. In the present day, Tina, her mother, and her latest doctor head back to Crystal Lake -- where her father drowned -- to work out her issues for good. Not too far away, a group of teens plan a surprise birthday party for one of their friends; one of these teens even meets and becomes smitten with Tina, which gives her a chance to experience some sense of normalcy.
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10	But things turn sour when her doctor tries to incite Tina's telekinesis under the guise of psychiatric care. When Tina has an emotional outburst after one such session, her latent abilities resurrect Jason Voorhees, who had [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives sunken to the bottom of Crystal Lake]] not long before Tina's father drowned. As the Crystal Lake Killer returns to doing what he does best, everyone around Tina calls her delusional when she says she saw him...but sooner or later, everyone finds out that her "delusions" are anything but.
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12	This film marks the debut of Creator/KaneHodder as Jason, who would play the role for the next three sequels and [[VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame a video game]] (and become a fan favorite in the process).
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16	!! ''The New Blood'' contains examples of the following tropes:
17	* ActorAllusion: Walt Gorney (Crazy Ralph himself) does the opening narration, so they work in a nod to his famous "death curse" line from the first movie.
18	* AlphaBitch: The RichBitch Melissa.
19	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Tina's doctor encourages her to explore her psychic powers... but visions of the future? Ridiculous! She's just delusional! Tina outright calls him on it at one point.
20	* AssholeVictim: Dr. Crews and Melissa, [[spoiler:who are also ironically the last two characters to die in this film]].
21	** There's quite a few more, just not to the same level. Specifically, [[ManipulativeBitch Robin]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Eddie]], and [[SpoiledBrat Russell]].
22	* AutoErotica: Due to the number of guests in his uncle's cabin, Russell has to "sleep" in his van with his girlfriend Sandra.
23	** Ben and Kate borrow the van later on to have some fun of their own.
24	* BackFromTheDead: The obligatory TwistEnding is that [[spoiler: ''Jason'' is the one getting dragged into Crystal Lake by a zombie: Tina's father]].
25	* BarrierBustingBlow: Provided the page picture.
26	* BeautifulAllAlong: Maddy removes her glasses to try and get a man, and it turns out she's beautiful without them (and with some makeup).
27	* BehindTheBlack: One girl is killed by Jason while sticking her head out the window of a van. There is literally no angle of approach from which she would not have seen Jason coming.
28	* BigNo: Russell lets out one, and dies before he gets to finish it.
29	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played with. Jason gets a handful of random kills beforehand, but when he starts working his way through the house, the black couple are the first people to go.
30	* BloodlessCarnage: Oddly enough for this franchise, the theatrical cut is almost completely bloodless, with most of the violence occurring offscreen. [[BloodierAndGorier The uncut version, on the other hand...]]
31	* BriefAccentImitation: When Dan goes to chop some wood for his and Judy's campfire, he says "I'll be back" in his best Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger accent.
32	* CassandraTruth: Tina tries to tell about Jason's presence, but Dr. Crews chalks it up to hallucinations.
33	* CatScare: Some random cat hiding in a closet gives a scare to Robin..
34	* ChainsawGood: Jason kills Dr. Crews with a tree trimmer. This is the only time he uses a power tool as a killing implement, by the way. While it technically lacks the chain, it retains the sawblade and intimidating "VRRRRRUM! VRRRRRRUM!"
35	* ContinuitySnarl:
36	** ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Jason Lives]]'' established that the town renamed itself from Crystal Lake to Forest Green as the townsfolk wanted to forget about what Jason did. In this film it’s back to being called Crystal Lake.
37	** When Megan rammed the propeller into Jason’s face the right side of the mask broke off and cut his right cheek open. In this film, it’s the left side that’s exposed.
38	* CountryMatters: Eddie refers to Melissa with this.
39	* CoveredWithScars: Buechler arranged for all of the damage and wounds that Jason had suffered from the previous films to show on Jason in this installment. In addition to the motorboat damage from [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives the previous film]], Jason also retains the machete and axe cuts from [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 parts two]] and [[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII three]] (respectively) as well as the [[EyeScream missing left eye]] from the wound that killed him in [[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter part four]].
40	* CreatorCameo: Director John Carl Buechler appears at the film's end as the fireman who picks up the halves of Jason's burned mask.
41	* DestinationDefenestration: Jason kills Robin by throwing her through a window.
42	* DirtyCoward: Dr. Crews pushes Mrs. Shepard in Jason's way to save himself. [[KarmicDeath This still doesn't help him very much]].
43	* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers both to a new main character (Tina) being introduced, and the fact there is a lot of "new blood" shed by Jason as he kills people.
44	* DramaticThunder: Done when Tina and Nick find Michael's corpse.
45	** Also used in a brilliant FreezeFrameBonus gag. As David walks through the dark kitchen with the flashlight and the thunder flashes briefly, look in the top left corner of the room. [[LightningReveal Jason's standing behind him the whole time.]]
46	* DramaticUnmask: When Jason attempts to break Nick's spine, Tina uses her powers to apply pressure on his head, which in turn destroys his mask.
47	* ElectrifiedBathtub: Tina uses her powers to force Jason into a puddle and then breaks one of the power cables to fry him.
48	* ExactEavesdropping: Melissa eavesdrops on the conversation between Nick and Tina by the lake.
49	* EyeAwaken: After Tina drops Jason in the basement, the camera closes on his face and he opens his eye.
50	* EyeScream: Jason kills Kate by stabbing her in the eye with a party horn.
51	* {{Fainting}}: Tina faints when she sees the resurrected Jason.
52	* FinalGirl: Tina.
53	* FingerWag: Dr. Crews does this to Tina when he tries to convince her that he cares about her well-being.
54	* FreezeFrameBonus: Jason can be seen lurking in the background of the kitchen during a flash of lightning.
55	* TheGlassesComeOff: Maddy takes off her glasses when she prepares to make an impression on David.
56	* GoldDigger: Russell's girlfriend Sandra, who admits that she loves his "big, beautiful... ''wallet''".
57	* HeadCrushing: While Ben is outside looking for his friend Michael, Jason catches him and crushes his skull with his bare hands. This scene was heavily censored in the theatrical version, cutting away as soon as he starts to bleed. The uncut scene shows the entire head crushing complete with blood pouring from his eye sockets.
58	* HorrifyingTheHorror: It is quite obvious that Jason is confused and even scared when Tina starts to use her powers against him. However, at the end of the confrontation, he is furious.
59	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: It's Michael's birthday during the first night. Presumably, it's also (yet another) Friday the 13th during a summer month.
60	* IWishedYouWereDead: Tina screamed at her father that she wished he was dead in the past. Unfortunately, this is exactly what caused her psychic powers to kill him.
61	* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Jason kills Jane by pinning her to a tree with a tent spike through her throat.
62	* InstantThunder: Appears when Dr. Crews finds Michael's body.
63	* ItWasHereISwear: Tina about the tent spike that Jason stuck on the porch.
64	* KillItWithFire: When Tina confronts Jason in the cabin basement, she uses her powers to douse him with gasoline and [[ManOnFire set him on fire]]. This somehow causes the whole house [[StuffBlowingUp blow up]] too. Tina ripping open the house's gas main probably had something to do with that.
65	* LargeHam: Creator/LarParkLincoln's performance, especially in the scenes where Tina uses her powers.
66	* {{Leitmotif}}: Tina has one for when she uses her powers.
67	* LightningReveal: Done when Jason is stalking David.
68	* NeckSnap: Jason punches through Dan's torso, and then snaps his neck.
69	* NiceGuy: Nick.
70	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tina's first attempt to revive her father is what instead frees Jason from the rock to which Tommy Jarvis had chained him.
71	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tina barely has any control over her powers and they always react horribly whenever she becomes stressed. When Jason kills Tina's mother, she gets so pissed that she instead gets near-perfect mastery over them.
72	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: While stoned, aspiring sci-fi writer Eddie comes up with a brilliant idea:
73	-->'''Eddie:''' I know; ''Star Mummy!''
74	* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: [[spoiler:Tina manages to temporarily revive her father, who drags Jason back down to the lake's bottom]].
75	* OddballInTheSeries:
76	** It is one of the few films in the franchise that has the presence of supernatural elements other than Jason's immortality (the others being ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and ''Freddy vs. Jason'').
77	** Music wise it’s the only film to feature two composers on the soundtrack (albeit half of it is original cues composed by Fred Mollin, while the other half is recycled cues from the first 6 movies by Music/HarryManfredini).
78	* OffWithHisHead: Jason decapitates David offscreen.
79	** Jason also attempts to do so with Eddie, [[AvertedTrope but only gets halfway]].
80	* OhCrap: Jason for once is on the receiving end when Tina starts using her powers against him. Given how few characters have ever actually been able to overpower him, this is understandable. It serves to drive him into the largest bout of visible rage in the entire series.
81	* OutsideContextProblem: Tina is this to Jason. In the context of the series, Tina is the first supernatural opponent Jason has been directly faced with. His reactions to her powers show just how completely shocked, confused, and caught off guard he is by this development.
82	* PeekABooCorpse: Russell's corpse gives Maddy a scare.
83	* PreviouslyOn: The film starts off with a brief narration from Walt Gorny (who played "Crazy Ralph" in the [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 first]] [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 two]] movies), followed by a quick recap of ''Jason Lives'', as Tina's father's death takes place shortly after Jason is drowned by Tommy Jarvis.
84	* PsychoactivePowers: Tina's powers depend on her emotions. Knowing this, Dr. Crews tries to inflict emotional stress on her to study her, instead of helping her to get over her mental trauma.
85	* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Tina drops a roof on Jason, then proclaims that, while Jason got her mom, she killed him. The scene immediately cuts to Jason thrusting his hand through the wreckage of the roof.
86	* RasputinianDeath: Where to begin? Jason gets electrocuted, hanged, has a roof fall on him, is hit by nails, doused in gasoline and set on fire, [[spoiler: and finally drowned.]]
87	* SealedEvilInACan: Carrying over from the last film, Jason is trapped at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Tina accidentally releases him from his prison. [[spoiler:Tina raises her father to put him back in the end.]]
88	* SexualKarma: The nice couples have a good time with each other, while Melissa has to resort to an [[LousyLoversAreLosers unfulfilling tryst with Eddie]], hoping to [[OperationJealousy make Nick jealous]].
89	* SinisterScythe: Jason kills Maddy with a sickle.
90	* SkinnyDipping: Sandra goes skinny dipping, and invites Russell to come along. He dies before he gets his clothes off, and Sandra soon follows.
91	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Nick's cousin barely lasts five minutes into the movie before dying, but he's the reason why Nick, Melissa, and all the other teens were at the cabin since they were planning his surprise party.
92	* StaggeredZoom: Used when Tina finally comes face to face with Jason.
93	* StrictlyFormula: This film was the last entry in the original continuity to largely follow the standard ''Friday the 13th'' formula. Each entry afterwards either changed the setting and/or Jason's nature. In fact, the storyline for this film is lifted from ''The Final Chapter'', only with Jason as a zombie and Tina replacing Tommy Jarvis and his family.
94	* TheStoner: Eddie and David.
95	* SuperWindowJump: Jason performs one when he is going after Tina.
96	* TokenMinorityCouple: Ben and Kate.
97	* TrashTheSet: The house explodes during the climax, with the actual set getting blown up during the filming.
98	* UnstoppableRage: The beatings Tina continually delivers seemingly drive Jason into this. Everything from his body language to his eventual facial expression shows that he starts off confused, then annoyed, growing frustrated until the very end of the film where Jason is utterly PISSED. Word of God [[WordOfGod Praised Kane Hodder's performance on this]]
99	* VisualPun: Jason leaves David's severed head on a potted plant, making a head plant.
100	** Then when Tina uses her telekinesis to throw the potted plant at Jason, David's head comes along for the ride, ''headbutting'' Jason. Also qualifies as a [[BrickJoke Brick Joke]]
101	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Commented on concerning the number of assholes in the group. Nick says they're not his friends, he's just at the cabin for his cousin's birthday.
102	* YouKilledMyFather: Jason kills Tina's mother late in the film, which is what prompts her to unleash everything she can on him.
103	* YourHeadASplode: More crushed, but Ben's death. ''Much worse'' in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaZxlagqaA workprint version]], crushed to the size of a walnut.

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