Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Like its deranged killer Jason Voorhees who keeps getting up no matter how many times he is knocked on the head with an axe, this slasher series just keeps shambling on - lifeless, flat-footed, and with nothing to say - and from the end of the original to the end of this Part 4, the series has been free of anything constituting a plot or interesting development, although this Part 4 offers a marginally more interesting string of impalements than Part 2 and 3 given the victims here are a more diverse bunch - not just teen camp counselors - all again gathered nearby Camp Lake Crystal.

★☆☆☆☆

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River's Edge (1986)

Grubby American high school friends react to the fact one of their group has committed murder but not in the way you'd imagine, in this difficult to watch drama inspired by a true story (!) featuring such a great deal of adolescent ugliness that in the end, like the apathetic teenagers in it, you'll find the story so depressing, so grim, you'll just want to dismiss it all out of hand.

★★☆☆☆

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