“Hands down the best (and most fun) Friday the 13th film!” –Bloody Disgusting

What better way to celebrate the only Friday the 13th of 2021 than with the best damn Friday the 13th movie ever made. Mixing self-aware comedy, gothic horror, and rip-roaring action with the usual gory thrills, Part VI (Jason Lives) plays as a winking parody of its self-serious forebears. Opening with the corpse of hockey-masked psycho killer Jason Voorhees getting jolted back to life by a bolt of lightning, this gleefully silly slasher tips its cap to Universal creature-feature classics like Frankenstein and tweaks the rampant cliches and formulas of its own franchise. Anticipating the jaded meta-humor of the Scream franchise by a decade, Jason Lives manages to subvert audience expectations while also delivering exactly what they came for: horny teenagers getting sliced up by a knife-wielding maniac. And if all that weren’t enough, Jason Lives also boasts the greatest theme song in slasher-movie history, Alice Cooper’s synthy goth-rock banger, “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask).”