Day 4, and it's time for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Which, of course, turned out to be not the final chapter at all, but apparently at the time they really meant it. Even Tom Savini came back to do the makeup effects on this film, because he felt it was the only way to kill off Jason Voorhees for good.
So, the brief plot recap: The Final Chapter takes place directly after Part 3, meaning that events actually start on Sunday the 15th and carry on through to Tuesday the 17th. Everyone thinks Jason is dead after getting an axe buried in his skull at the end of Part 3, but he wakes up in the morgue and promptly sets about killing his way back to yet another part of Crystal Lake. This time he turns up at the Jarvis family residence, whose next-door neighbours just happen to be another group of teenagers looking to party and inevitably get killed. Also on the scene is one Rob Dyer, who's there to hunt Jason down once and for all. His sister Sandra was one of Jason's victims in Part 2 (she was one half of the couple speared to the bed) and so he's out for revenge.
There's actually a lot of plot to go around in The Final Chapter, probably because they were attempting to tie up as many of the loose ends and generally bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion (as they thought at the time). The character of Rob Dyer is one of those plot ends, brought in to remind us that this is really just the culmination of Jason Voorhees' long weekend of killing - although at the same time, his timing is rather flimsy: if his sister died on the Friday/Saturday, he wouldn't have found out until at least the Sunday (according to the films' own timeline) and yet in 24 hours he managed to get multiple newspaper clippings of Jason's rampages and pack a Jason-hunting kit (of course, he could have just had a family-avenging kit prepped and ready to go for just this sort of situation), and then get to Crystal Lake in time for the grand finale. Impressive stuff.
One can even look at Rob Dyer as a modern-day woodsman of sorts, there to slay the horrible monster and save Red Riding Hood/the surviving teens just in the nick of time. Except not only does he not manage that, he fails in perhaps the most spectacular fashion. Confronting his nemesis in a darkened basement, Rob falls very quickly to him, and all he can do is cry out, "Help! He's killing me. He's killing me." Hardly the all-conquering hero he believed himself to be. In the end it falls to Trish and Tommy Jarvis to finally put Jason down; Trish in the capacity of Final Girl and Tommy by way of some cunning psychology and makeup tricks (although the fact that Tommy was played by Corey Feldman might have clued you in to his probable survival).
Joseph Zito was the director on The Final Chapter, and he and Tom Savini had worked together before on the 1981 slasher Rosemary's Killer (aka The Prowler). It was in fact his work on that film that got him the role of director here, and while there were apparently some conflicts between Zito and the cast (due to the low budget, some of the cast had to perform potentially dangerous stunts themselves, which led to tension between them and the director at the very least) the finished product came out very well and was yet another hit at the box office. But of course, that success was a double-edged sword, as if the series was continuing to do so well, the studio executives were going to be loathe to just leave it like that...
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