This slasher series doesn't just follow a formula - each episode is a cookie-cut repeat of the last 'FtTp n - 1' episodes - so the sense of same you get watching it extends beyond the Camp Crystal Lake impalings, which happen one after the other in cookie-cutter fashion, and makes the whole series of seven parts (that I've reviewed to this point) feel like one interminable movie showing what may as well be the same death - the death of Barry, stabbed in the stomach by Pamela Voorhees in the opening scene of the original - over and over and over and over, and this episode's attempt at injecting something new - a telekinetic heroine - is, like the copycat of Part III, the resurrection in Part VI, the kidnapping in the reboot, just a different coloured flag in the hand of a stationmaster: the same sluggish train lurches forward and heads along the same tired tracks to its same destination and - surprise! - you're back at the departing station, ready for part FtTp n + 1.
★☆☆☆☆
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