Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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what happens to Alice at the end of Friday the 13 th . She awakes in the morning, and
sees Jason in the window of her house. He seems to disappear into thin air, before
the corpse of Mrs. Voorhees leaps out of the water and drags Chris under. At the
end, the police have arrived, and are taking Chris away to safety, while Jason still
lies apparently dead from the hatchet wound.
Friday the 13 th : The Final Chapter (1984; dir. Zito)
The Final Chapter begins with Jason’s supposed corpse being taken to the
morgue at a hospital, yet Jason comes back to life, attacking hospital staff before
disappearing. The story then moves back in time to a house by Crystal Lake, where
a young boy, Tommy Jarvis, lives resides? with his mother and teenage sister.
Concurrently a group of teenagers visit the cabin nextdoor to spend the weekend.
Gradually, Jason kills everyone between the two houses except for Tommy and his
sister. In the climax, Tommy bravely attempts to create a sympathetic connection in
Jason by reminding him of the child he used to be, before furiously striking Jason
repeatedly with his own machete. Jason is now dead, and Tommy and his sister are
taken to the hospital. The film ends, implying that Tommy has been
psychologically damaged and has the potential to become violent himself.
Friday the 13 th Part V: A New Beginning (1985; dir. Steinmann)
Tommy Jarvis arrives at a new psychoanalytic institution in order to help
cure him, as he is apparently still disturbed from the events of the previous film. He
has bad dreams, rarely talks, and is antisocial. An altercation at the institution
between two other patients results in one of them being violently killed, and the
paramedics come to retrieve the body of Joey, the dead patient. Following this,