'Friday the 13th: VI Jason Lives' is one of the better sequels in a very uneven franchise. It has energy, a style, and the potential to actually be scary. It also has one of the most menacing versions of Jason more often.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2024

It makes for a much more enjoyable ride for many, though some may miss the reliable presence of the more grisly violent details and nudity of previous franchise outings.

| Feb 6, 2024

Don't expect a complete franchise overhaul: this is still the same Friday the 13th you know and love (or hate), but writer/director Tom McLoughlin's tongue-in-cheek approach to the material injects some much-needed energy into the slasher series.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2022

This clever early meta slasher still features too many Red Shirt characters, which takes away screen time from its far more interesting counsellors. Megan is a solid Final Girl that the film undercuts in its last act. At least Tommy and Jason are hot?

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2022

An OK entry in the series, with some welcome humor and a bravura finale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2021

A definite improvement over the fourth and fifth installments...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2015

The murderous Jason is back in the latest chapter of the most offensive series in film history, unless Burt Reynolds makes three more Smokey and the Bandit pictures real quick.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 16, 2013

Although the first four sequels had their own brand of tongue-in-cheek horror, Part VI marked the first step into overt campiness of the series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2010

This may be my favorite of the Friday the 13th series, mainly because of the winking, insider humor; it's almost like a precursor to Wes Craven's Scream ten years later.

| Jun 18, 2009

While there's a superficial been-there-done-that, why don't-we-just-mock-the-whole-thing quality to this entry in the series, it certainly livens up what has become by this point a stale franchise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2009

A deliriously fun time, with Jason at his all time meanest...

| Apr 29, 2009

Writer-director Tom McLoughlin strives to bend the familiar FRIDAY formula into a throwback to an earlier era of horror monsters. The results are mixed...but you have to give [him] credit for trying.

| Feb 14, 2009

Does Jason ever die? On with the franchsie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2008

It's kind of a nice film, and nice exploitation films are nobody's idea of a good time.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 12, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2005

Gives us a couple of good, self-referential laughs ... the film is probably the most enjoyable of the series, but it isn't the best.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 25, 2005

Of note: Electricity will figure prominently in just about every Friday the 13th entry from this point onward.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 30, 2004