She boldly flirts with Tommy, locked in a holding cell, right in front of her father. Right away, Megan’s personality comes across as atypical for a Final Girl. Tommy’s sole ally? The Sheriff’s rebellious teen daughter, Megan. He spends much of the film at odds with Sheriff Mike Garris (David Kagen). But due to Tommy’s past, the local authorities don’t believe his claims of Jason’s return.
It sparks a new bloodbath, just in time for campers and camp counselors to arrive at Camp Forest Green. Thanks to a thunderstorm and some angst, Tommy manages to revive Jason instead, with a metal fence post that acts as a lightning rod. Tommy returns to Crystal Lake, now named Forest Green, to burn Jason Voorhees’ remains. Tommy Jarvis might be designated the hero of Jason Lives, but it’s also his actions that cause Jason to return from the grave in the first place. That meant a less severe and traumatized version of the hero, Tommy, now played by The Return of the Living Dead’s Thom Mathews. The final entry in the Tommy Jarvis saga injected a self-referential sense of humor, and a Frankenstein-inspired twist, courtesy of writer/director Tom McLoughlin.
But this Friday, the 13th, let’s pay our respects to the liveliest final girl of the entire series Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives‘ Megan Garris ( Jennifer Cooke ).įriday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was released in theaters on August 1, 1986, marking a dramatic shift in tone from A New Beginning.
Part 2’s Ginny (Amy Steel) ranks high among the franchise’s favorites for her tough-as-nails perseverance and quick wit. Voorhees’ (Betsy Palmer) reign of terror by removing her head. The first film saw Alice (Adrienne King) end Mrs. From the beginning, the Friday the 13th franchise delivered memorable Final Girls that outlasted the slaughter and defeated their foe.