Thirty years ago, Sheriff Daltry (Dan Kyle) and two of his deputies (Rochelle Muzquiz, Patrick D. Green) wanted to bury Jason Voorhees (also Dan Kyle) near Camp Crystal Lake - and they didn't survive it. Nowadays, Daltry's son Pete Daltry (Kyle Vahan) is sheriff, and he and Deputy Eve (Anna Campbell) are keeping the area quiet, with Camp Crystal Lake being fenced off from the public. But then three prisoners (Lisa Sorenson, Jennie Vaughn, Elizabeth Garrett) break out of a nearby prison, and think it's a good idea to climb over the fence and hide out at Camp Crystal Lake, waiting for their pick-up (Evelyn Gail) - who's of course the first who's killed, as under the influence of his dead mother (Alyxandria McCormack, voiced by Kristina Haddad), who occasionally walks around in her headless state, Jason has come to life again, and he wastes no time when it comes to killing. Assisting two marshals (Jerry Bell jr, Jason Reynolds) tracking the girls, Sheriff Pete and Deputy Eve go over the fence as well, but they find the girls only in a slaughtered state, and soon realize it's them who are the hunted, and Jason isn't one to die easy if you don't know how to kill him ...

Adrienne King returns as Alice Hardy from the original Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2, Amy Steel from Part 2 makes a voice appearance here as Dr. Ginny Field.

As far as fanfilms go, it might not get much better than this, as in all, production values, storytelling, directorial effort, and originality even, Jason Rising beats at least some of the sequels by quite a bit. The result is a pretty tense slasher that goes beyond just following formula and uses the source material merely as a basis rather than a source of endless homage, and features pretty cool cinematography and sound design to elevate it above the fanfilm realm. And the result is a well-crafted movie with an original story that can stand on its own as a low budget genre movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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