YMMV / Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

• Broken Base: The make-up on the unmasked Jason; depending on which fan you ask, either it's the most impressive unmasked make-up in the franchise (with the possible exception of The New Blood) for being the child Jason's make-up from the first film turned up to eleven, or it's well-designed, but too immobile and ends up making Jason look more like some gruesomely-disfigured shop dummy.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Jim played by Crispin Glover. Everyone loves him and his ridiculous dance moves!
  • Ted is popular as well, mainly for being Jimbo's Hetero Sexual Life Partner, along with the two of them providing the most comic relief.
  • Of course, the biggest example is Tommy Jarvis, arguably the most popular character in the entire series after Jason himself.
• Even Better Sequel: This film tends to tie with Part 2 & Part VI for the title of best in the series, thanks to Jason in full-on slaughter mode (with hockey mask!), Tom Savini being at the top of his game with the gore effects, and most of the characters actually being well-acted and written with some depth.
• It Was His Sled: The fact that it's the young Tommy who kills Jason.
• Les Yay: During the skinny dipping scene, Samantha is quite eager for her friend Sara to strip down and join them, even dragging her into the lake when she declines.
• Memetic Mutation: Calling something "the final chapter" when it's not the final installment, ends on a Sequel Hook or raises more questions than it answers (note that this was intended to be the actual final film, but a sequel was made anyway).
  • As pointed out by Red Letter Media, this isn't even the only movie in the series to have 'Final' in the title... and even then that still wasn't the 'final' film, which only hammers it in more!
• Nightmare Retardant: Rob's death. The director intended to create a horrifying scene that showcases the helplessness of a murder victim. The result is a scene where Rob, the guy who has been built up to be a worthy opponent to Jason, does nothing to stop him while striking a dramatic pose against a wall and screaming "HE'S KILLING ME! HE'S KILLING ME!"
• Signature Scene:
  • The opening prologue, with clips from the first 3 movies set to Paul’s campfire story as the narration.
  • Jimbo's goofy dance to "Love is a Lie," often regarded by fans as one of the funniest scenes in the entire series.
  • Jason's death.
• Squick:
  • In this movie, Jason sports long, discolored, broken fingernails.
  • After taking the fatal machete to the head, Jason falls forward, driving the machete further in and causing part of his head to slide along with it.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Jason dies for good (at least for a while), and his death is one of the coolest ones in a series full of them.

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