At Camp Crystal Lake, an undercover government agent lures Jason into a trap, blowing him up real good. I saw this scene in a movie theater in Youngstown, OH (former murder capital of the US!) and the crowd cheered their name being mentioned as a place Jason had been seen.

Soon after, the body is being examined by a coroner who is moved to eat the heart and ingest the spirit of Jason. He goes right back to Crystal Lake and right back to killing him. And now comes the part of the story that no one has ever figured out until now, making the story just like Halloween (again!): Creighton Duke (Steven Williams, Dr. Detroit) is a bounty hunter who learns that only members of Jason’s bloodline can truly kill him. Even worse, if he can possess a family member, he’ll become invincible.

Jason’s only living relatives are his half-sister Diana Kimble (Erin Gray!), her daughter Jessica, and Stephanie, the infant daughter of Jessica and Steven Freeman (John D. LeMay, who played Ryan Dallion on the otherwise unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series).

Jessica is now dating tabloid TV reporter Robert Campbell (Steven Culp, Rex Van de Kamp from Desperate Housewives), yet Steven saves her from Jason. He gets blamed for her mother’s death, and just as Robert is about to take advantage, Jason goes into his body, all to impregnate his half-sister and make a perfect Jason baby. Oh, incest, we were waiting for you to show up.

Meanwhile, Jason wipes out most of the police in town. But then Duke the bounty hunter steals the baby and demands that Jessica meet him at the Vorhees house alone, so that he can give her the mystical dagger that can kill Jason. Now this film has become The Omen.

Despite all this, the heart that is Jason grows into a demonic infant and then crawls into a dead woman’s vagina and is reborn. Yes, you just read that sentence correctly. And man, I said that 5 was the scummiest entry in the series!

It all works out — the dagger releases all of the souls that Jason has accumulated and demonic forces drag him into hell. At the end of the movie, a dog finds Jason’s mask and of all things, Freddy’s gloved hand pulls it into the ground!

The late great Mike McBeardo McPadden wrote about watching this scene on 42nd Street, where the crowd went wilder than any he’d ever experienced and that a man screamed to no one in particular, in the dark, “Freddy wants somebody to play with … IN HELL!!!!” Man, I wish I were there for that. You should also grab his Heavy Metal Movies here at Bazillion Points Books.

Finally, after all these years, Freddy and Jason were set to battle. But guess what? We’d have to wait ten years for it to happen. Because, after all, Jason had to go to space first. Arrow has also released that on UHD.

The Arrow Video UHD of Jason Goes to Hell has both a theatrical and unrated cut.

Extras include an introduction to the theatrical cut by director Adam Marcus, interviews with special make-up effects creator Robert Kurtzman, actor Julie Michaels, composer Harry Manfredini and director Adam Marcus; a feature on Marcus on growing up with the Cunninghams; an archival interview with Kane Hodder; extra footage from the TV version; a trailer and TV commercial and still, behind the scenes and poster galleries.

The uncensored cut has three commentary tracks: one by film historians Michael Felsher and Steve “Uncle Creepy” Barton, another with Marcus and author Peter Bracke, and one with Marcus and screenwriter Dean Lorey.

It all comes inside a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin, a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin and an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by JA Kerswell and original production notes.

You can get this from MVD.