Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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Friday the 13 th Part VII: The New Blood (1988; dir. Buechler)
The New Blood tells the story of Tina, a telekinetic teenage girl who is
exploited by her therapist because of her abilities, a fact to which her well-meaning
mother remains oblivious. Tina suffers from the guilt of knowing that she
unintentionally caused the death of her father at their cabin by Crystal Lake, using
her mind, causing the pier on which he was standing to collapse. Her therapist has
taken Tina and her mother back out to the cabin under the guise of encouraging her
to make peace with this part of her past, while secretly desiring to use her emotional
fragility to cause greater telekinetic feats. At the same time, a group of teenagers
visit a nearby cabin for the weekend. Tina, trying to bring her father back to life
through telekinesis accidentally resurrects Jason, who begins killing the people in the
area. The film climaxes with a confrontation between Tina and Jason, where Tina’s
father comes back from the dead to reattach the chain around Jason’s neck.
Friday the 13 th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989; dir. Hedden)
Jason Takes Manhattan begins with a boat floating on Crystal Lake near
Jason’s corpse. The anchor of the boat catches a nearby power cable and the surge
of electricity into the water brings Jason back to life. Meanwhile, a group of high
school teenagers board a boat to go on a school trip to New York City. One of the
group, a girl named Rennie, had an encounter with a young Jason when she was first
learning to swim. Since this point, she has had supernatural visions of him,
sometimes foretelling danger. Jason finds his way onto the boat, and begins killing
members of the group. The survivors make their way to New York City, with Jason
in tow. Eventually, Rennie lures Jason into the sewers just before toxic waste is