Jason Lives : Script
This scrpit is By Mickey Durneme, who spent ages writing it - so you better appreciate it!
EXT : Night time on a road near crystal lake (Forrest Green).
Tommy Jarvis and a friend from the institute, Horace, have gone back to Crystal Lake to make sure that Jason is dead. They ride in a truck with a shovel and gasoline in the back. Tommy has also brought along Jason’s mask from part 4 (supposedly, but it has the wrong markings), and a pair of gardening gloves. The sky above shows that a storm is on the way.
Horace:
I don't know how the hell you talked me into this, Tommy.
Hell, I must be crazy. You know, If the institution ever found out about this...boy, they'd haul our butts back in strait-jackets.... Permanently.
Tommy:
You didn't have to come Horace. This is between me and Jason.
Horace:
I know, I know, I know. But I still don't get the therapy here. All you need to know is Jason's dead, right? How will seeing his corpse stop your hallucinations?
Tommy:
Seeing it won't. But destroying him once and for all will. Jason belongs in hell. And I'm gonna see he gets there.
EXT : Eternal peace cemetery.
*The eternal peace cemetery was last seen in Part 4 : The Final Chapter, at the beginning, when the campers are searching for Crystal Lake.
Tommy and Horace locate Jason’s grave at the far end, and begin to dig.
Horace:
OK, there it is huh? That’s his grave. OK, lets go.
Tommy:
Wait a second.
Horace:
What?
Tommy:
I gotta be sure.
Tommy begins to dig, and soon, Horace joins him. Not long after, they unearth Jason Voorhees’ coffin, and Tommy scrapes away the dirt.
Horace:
OK, there’s your proof, there’s his coffin. Lets go.
Tommy:
Hand me the crow bar.
Horace:
Your not going to open that?
Tommy:
HAND ME THE CROW BAR!
Horace:
I got it... I really don’t like this.
Tommy looks at Jason’s remains, and has a flashback to when he killed Jason. He strolls off and pulls a railing from the cemetery fence, and returns.
Horace:
Where are you going? Hey, what's that for?
Tommy repeatedly stabs Jason’s decomposed corpse in the chest using the railing pole. He screams several words as he mashes Jason’s dry and decomposed body up.
Horace:
Oh, Boy, he must've really messed you over.
Tommy climbs out from the open grave.
Tommy:
Yeah. Fuck you, Jason.
As Tommy walks away to get the gasoline, the storm finally begins, and lightning strikes the pole that is now in Jason’ chest.
Horace:
Tommy! Let's just get the hell out of here. Please. Tommy please, let’s just get out of here. My heart can't take any more of this.
As Tommy climbs from the grave, and goes to light the match, Jason grabs at him, but Tommy struggles and escapes, pushing Jason back into the grave, and Horace runs away, back to the truck. Tommy throws gasoline all over Jason, and he reaches into his pocket at gets out a match. Jason is upon him as he goes to light it, and it suddenly rains, putting out the match. From behind, Horace races at Jason with all his might, and smashes Jason with a spade over the head.
Tommy:
Horace!
Jason turns and rips out Horace’s heart with a single swipe. Gargling on blood, Horace drops to the ground, and Jason drops Horace’s steaming guts to the ground. As Jason Faces Tommy, he runs to his truck and takes off, to Forrest Green Police station. Jason returns to his graveside and picks up the mask, gloves and railing, turning to give us the first view of perhaps the best Jason.
INT : Forrest Green’s Sheriff’s office
Tommy bursts into the police station and Sheriff Garris jumps up and aims at him.
Tommy:
Don't shoot, please!
Sheriff Garris:
You in show business kid? You sure know how to make a great entrance.
Tommy:
Look -you gotta do something - Jason’s alive. He killed my friend and now he's coming for me.
Sheriff Garris:
You better cool out boy, you already nearly got your head blown off...
Tommy:
Will you listen damn it!
Sheriff Garris:
Don't piss me off Junior, or I will repaint this office with your brains.
Tommy:
Look, Jason is alive. We dug up his body, I was going to cremate it.
Sheriff Garris:
Hold it Buddy, woah. What's your name son?
Tommy:
Tommy Jarvis, but listen, we gotta do something, he's even more powerful now that..
Sheriff Garris:
Aren't you that kid whose mother and friends were killed by that maniac?
Tommy:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jason murdered them, but...
Sheriff Garris:
You been in some psychiatric clinic since haven't you?
The deputy walks in holding a take-away.
Deputy:
God, what the hell is happening with the weather? Sorry, didn't know you had some...
Sheriff Garris:
No problem Rick. I want you to meet a former resident here; Tommy Jarvis. He's got some kind of prank...
Tommy:
Look we've got no time for this bullshit. Jason has got to be stopped.
Deputy:
What prank Mike?
Tommy attempts to grab one of Sheriff Garris’s shot guns, but the Sheriff pushes him away.
Sheriff Garris:
Hey, hey! That's for screwing the book - iron this punk!
The Deputy drags Tommy to a cell.
Tommy:
No way - you gotta listen to me. Jason's comin' here - he's after me. I tried to destroy him but I fucked up!
Deputy:
You got that right punk!
Sheriff Garris:
You listen to me! I'm sorry about what happened to you and your folks years ago, but nobody in Forrest Green wants to be reminded of what that maniac did here. That's why we changed the name. People want to forget that this was Crystal Lake. They don't need some kid stirring up Jason shit again. Now you just lie down and get some rest and in the morning I'll call the clinic.
Tommy:
No, no, If you'll just go to the cemetery, you'll see I'm not lying.
Sheriff Garris:
Either you get some sleep - or I'll come in there and put you out.
Tommy:
You are gonna be sorry you didn't listen to me.
Sheriff Garris:
You're going to be sorry if you don't shut up.
The Deputy pushes Tommy.
Deputy:
Take a nap Junior!
Tommy holds his head in his hands, and sits on the bunk.
EXT : Cunningham road, in woodland near Forrest Green
Darren and Elizabeth, two counsellors are searching for Camp Forrest Green.
Darren:
Will you take it easy - it's hard enough to read this thing.
Elizabeth:
Well who told me to take this cowpath?
Darren:
Wait a minute - you admit the sign did say Camp Forrest Green with an arrow pointing this way.
Elizabeth:
I admit nothing without talking to my lawyer. Told you we should have left a trail of bread crumbs.
Darren:
Don't start! Aghh - So much for the head counsellors getting back to the camp on their own. I say we stop the car, get out and start screaming.
Elizabeth slams on the breaks.
Darren:
I was just kidding Elizabeth.
Elizabeth:
Darren - we'd better turn around.
Darren:
why.
Elizabeth:
Because I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.
Darren looks, and sees Jason standing in the road, with a piece of railing.
They reverse the car, and stop when they near the side of the road.
Darren:
Woah! There's no way that we can do this - if the car drops into that gully, we'll never get it out.
Elizabeth:
Do you have a better suggestion?
Darren:
Yeah... We're gonna scare him.
Elizabeth:
We are gonna scare him?
Darren:
Just drive towards him - he'll move. Nobody wants to die.
Elizabeth:
Well that's a freaking fact, least of all us.
Darren:
Just drive. He'll get out of our way.
Elizabeth drives at him, but Jason doesn't flinch.
Elizabeth:
Yeah... that really scared the shit out of him.
Elizabeth honks the horn, and Jason impales the front tyre with his railing spike.
Darren:
Oh no.
Elizabeth:
That's it - we're driving this baby back to town in reverse.
Darren:
The hell we are.
Darren gets a revolver from the glove compartment.
Elizabeth:
Where'd you get that?
Darren:
Don't worry about it - just stay cool.
Elizabeth:
Stay cool? You ain't dirty Harry - now stop it!
Darren gets out of the car, and points the gun at Jason.
Darren:
All right skumbag - get out of the road. Now!
Jason smashes the right headlight with the railing.
Elizabeth:
Darren! Get back in here right now - he'll kill you!
Darren:
Not if I get him first!
Darren takes a shot, but misses. Jason impales Darren, and throws him behind him, splashing a load of blood on the car, then Jason swings at Elizabeth with the pole, smashing the windscreen. Elizabeth climbs out, and flops into a puddle, grasping at her wallet, to give Jason money and her master card.
Elizabeth:
No, no, please, it's in my jacket, please, please take everything!
Jason has vanished, and as she looks around, he jumps behind her, and smashes the iron pole into her face, as she dies from a mixture of the injury and drowning, she gargles her last breath and releases her grip on the cash, and it floats off, into the blooded puddle.
INT : Forrest Green’s Sheriff’s office
Tommy suddenly awakes, as the sheriff returns with His daughter Megan and her friends. Cort wearing ripped jeans and headphones, Paula and Sissy.
Megan :
Come on dad, you could at least have Rick drive out to Cunningham Road and look for them.
Sheriff Garris :
Megan, my deputy has more important things to do than to look for camp counsellors with car trouble.
Cort :
Come on Sheriff, couldn’t you put out like, an all points bulletin or something you know, that, that would at least...
Cort is sitting on Sheriff Garris’s bench, and the Sheriff sees his ripped jeans.
Sheriff Garris :
You’re mother own a sewing machine kid?
Cort takes off his headphones.
Cort :
Excuse me?
Sheriff Garris :
Hey, off.
Cort :
Oh, hey, sorry.
Paula :
It’s just that Darren and my sister Elizabeth are in charge of organising the new camp ground, and we don’t know what to do.
Sissy :
And all the little kiddies arrive today. We’re not ready to deal with that alone.
Sheriff Garris :
I sympathise with you kids. The best I can do is phone the station in Carpenter and have them keep a lookout for them.
Tommy :
I’ve got a bad feeling about what might have happened to them. Well, hopefully they’re fine, but with Jason out there...
Sheriff Garris:
Shut up.
Megan:
Jason who?
Smiling, Megan approaches Tommy.
Sheriff Garris:
Megan, stay away from him, he’s dangerous.
Tommy:
I’m not dangerous. Jason is out there, he’s looking for me. He’s probably heading back to the camp.
Sheriff Garris:
I told you to shut up.
Sissy:
You mean the Jason of Camp blood.
Tommy:
Yes.
Sheriff Garris:
No! You kids better leave. This boy is not well, and I need to talk with him in private.
Come on Dad, we were just...
Sheriff Garris:
Megan! Take your friends back to the camp. I let you know if we hear anything about your camp leaders.
Megan:
Don’t beat him up too much Dad. He’s kinda cute.
Sheriff Garris:
Megan! Leave!
Sissy:
Woooo! He’s cute!
Sheriff Garris:
I was going to call that clinic and have them collect your ass, but I don’t want you around here any longer poisoning my daughter or anyone else with your warped sense of humour.
Tommy:
They have to be warned Sheriff. Jason will return to the area that’s familiar, no matter what you call it, It’s still camp Crystal Lake to him.
Sheriff Garris:
We’re going to escort you to the edge of my Jurisdiction. Then we will say good bye and will never see you round here again, do we understand each other?
EXT : Eternal peace cemetery.
Marten (gravedigger, caretaker):
Shit! Shit, damn! I know I’m gonna get blamed for this. Say old Marten isn’t a good caretaker. Hell, I’m a damned high school graduate! I deserve this job, I earned it. Now nobody’s gonna find out. Shitheads couldn’t even stick him back in right. Well, I ain’t gonna touch that slimy sucker. Why did they have to do and dig up Jason? Some folks have a strange idea of entertainment!
Jason is walking through the woods, towards his home, at Crystal Lake.
At Camp Forrest Green, the Counsellors are getting ready for the children, as they listen to Alice Cooper’s Man behind the mask.
INT : Camp Forrest Green, a cabin.
Paula:
OK, you guys, you guys - I’m a little worried.
Cort:
About Jason?
Paula:
No, about Darren and Elizabeth. They should have least called, don’t you think? Megan?
Megan:
What?
Paula:
Hello?
Meagan :
Yeah, (giggles).
Sissy:
That girls back in the jail cell, with her prisoner of luurve. You shouldn’t mess with a crazy jailbird, it’s bad news!
Megan:
Oh, and how do you know?
Sissy:
I’ve been around long enough to see plenty on TV.
Megan:
TV? (giggles)
Paula:
I don’t know about that guy Megan. He seemed pretty weird with all that Jason stuff.
Cort:
You know what you need Megan, I’ve been telling you forever, you need a guy like me eh? A guy that’s not so twisted...
Megan:
Maybe he was telling the truth, just because our parents keep telling us that Jason was only a legend doesn’t mean it wasn’t true. What if he did come back here, looking for the Camp counsellor who caused him to drown as a boy. Searching for the one that decapitated his vengeful mother. And you do know what today’s day it is, don’t you? I can think of only one thing even more terrifying.
Cort:
What?
Megan points to the bus load of kids arriving at the camp, screaming and throwing things.
Cort:
Great, the kids are here.
School teacher:
Children! Be careful, you may fall! There they are, and they’re all yours!
Sissy:
I think I’d rather deal with old Jason...
EXT : The woods near Crystal lake, a paint-ball range, where business associates are having a game.
Stan:
Once we nail Roy, that’s it, victory is ours!
Larry:
It’s taking for ever, I’m starving!
Stan:
You know, that’s your trouble Larry. That’s why your sales are below than quota. Your instinct to eat is higher than your instinct to win!
Larry:
You’re a real ass, you know that?
Stan:
Better than being all ass.
Larry:
That is so unfair...
Stan:
Oh, here we go with unfair again. The worlds unfair...
Larry:
Give me a break would you please, this is not war, this is a game.
Stan:
War is an ugly business...
As they walk, they pass Jason who is camouflaged against a tree..
Larry:
I’m hungry, I wanna get a sandwich OK..
Stan:
OK, we’ll wait until we kill something, and then you can eat...
Larry:
Calm down a little bit with your attitude would you, you’re in ship shape.
Stan:
Your...death is my business.
Larry:
You become this whole other person when we’re out here Stan, I don’t like it.
Stan:
Hey, It’s a man’s game. It requires a man’s cunning, a man’s inteligence...
Katie, a colleague, jumps out and shoots them both in the chest.
Katie:
With the woman’s touch...
Stan:
Now wait a minute, I thought Burt shot you?
Katie:
You see any paint? Sorry guys, I did it, and took your commando, weapons an’ all. Survival’s the name of the game, and that flag is mine.
Larry:
Burt never gets shot. Never should have let her play
Stan:
It’s a company Exec game, and she’s a damned company Exec.
Katie:
Now, now boys, don’t be spoil sports. Put on your headbands.
Stan and Larry grudgingly take out their ‘dead’ headbands and put them on.
EXT : The paint-ball range, not far from the others.
Burt hacks at the undergrowth with a machete, angry that he was beaten by a woman.
Burt:
Dum broad - she tricked me! God, they’re worse than sluts! She should have stayed in the kitchen where she belongs. Women shouldn’t be allowed in these games. It’s not a game! It’s life!
He continues to attack branches, but Jason steps in, and grabs him. Burt is thrust into a branch of a tree, and is impaled. Jason is holding the machete - and so is Burt’s severed arm, dripping blood on the ground.
EXT : A road in Forrest Green.
Mean while, Tommy is riding ahead of Sheriff Garris and his Deputy along the road out of Forrest Green.
Sheriff Garris:
Jason really screwed up that poor son of a bitches mind
Deputy:
He really believes that Jason is still alive doesn’t he?
Sheriff Garris:
That’s not what worries me - it’s how far he’ll go to try and prove it.
EXT : The paint-ball range.
Roy, an idiot with thick lensed spectacles stumbles about in the woods, hiding and ducking behind tree’s on the look out for the enemy, as he stumbles, he falls and drops his gun.
Roy:
Darn! Oh no! No, Oh my god. No, where? Oh no! Oh No, no!
Katie:
Come on out guys, the games over!
Stan:
You don’t know for sure, what about Roy, nobody’s seen him
Katie:
Of course not, if he hasn’t accidentally pelleted himself, I’m sure he’s lost.
Stan:
Oh well, the games not over ‘til it’s over.
Larry:
Yeah, that’s right...
They hear the sound of cracking twigs.
Katie:
Shhh... Wait a second. What’s that?
Larry:
What?
Stan:
Nothing.
Katie:
I could swear I heard something.
Larry:
I’m hungry.
Stan:
Oh god...
Katie:
Quiet...
Suddenly, Jason drops down from above and as the three of them look in amazement, Jason decapitates all three in one vicious swipe of the machete. The bodies fall to the ground, to reveal Roy, who is standing behind them. Jason steps over the bodies, and Roy shoots at him with the paint-ball gun, hitting him in the chest. Jason looks at the mark on his shirt, and walks toward Roy, who drops his gun and runs off.
Roy:
Oh my god, my god, help guys, help me, help, help me guys, help, god, help me, somebody help me, he’s gonna kill me!
EXT : A road in Forrest Green.
Tommy is ahead of Sheriff Garris’s squad car, who is escorting him our of town. As they drive along, Tommy suddenly swerves into the cemetery, to show Sheriff Garris that Jason is really alive.
Sheriff Garris:
Fuckin’ A, what did I tell ya, hit the noise and the cheries.
Tommy pulls up at the graveyard and runs through, looking for Jason’s grave, with the two cops chasing him. Narrowly escaping them a couple of times, he is knocked down just as he nears Jason’s grave.
Tommy:
Sheriff... Sheriff, wait, you gotta listen!
Sheriff Garris:
I’m tired of listening to you, kid.
Tommy:
I gotta... I gotta show you Jason’s grave.
Sheriff Garris:
I’ve seen it, come on, get up. Get up!
Tommy:
Please Sheriff, you’ll see we dug it up...
Sheriff Garris:
Well, he must have got chilly in the night and pulled the dirt back over.
Tommy:
That’s not right, somebody covered it over... I gotta see it...
As he speaks, Rick pulls out his new revolver, and aims straight at Tommy’s head.
Deputy:
Freeze it psycho!
Sheriff Garris:
Now see what you’ve done. You made my deputy draw his revolver. He’s been dying to try out his mail order laserscope.
Deputy:
Wherever the red dot goes... ya bang!
The gravedigger, marten appears on the scene.
Marten:
What’s the problem Sheriff?
Sheriff Garris:
No problem Marten, just a vagrant kid, we got it under control.
Tommy:
Did you cover up Jason’s grave?
Marten:
What? What are you talkin’ about?
Sheriff Garris:
Don’t concern yourself Marten, this kid needs treatment
Tommy:
Jason’s not in his grave, Horace is... dig it up! You gotta dig it up! You gotta dig it up!
The cops drag Tommy back towards their patrol car, and leave Marten, who stares at Jason’s now covered up grave.
Marten:
Dig him up? Does he believe I’m a fart head?
EXT : Camp Forrest Green, by the lakeside.
Megan is addressing the little girls, and Sissy and Paula are standing at the back.
Girls in unison:
Yeeaaah!
Megan:
OK, is this going to be the best weekend ever?
Girls:
Yeeaaah!
Megan:
Are we going to go fishing?
Girls:
Yeeaaah!
Megan:
Are we going to get all the boys?
Girls:
OK! Are we gonna.. ehhh, ehhh are we gonna....
Paula:
What happened to Cort?
Sissy:
Are you ready? He’s taken the young men out to teach them my favourite sport.
Paula:
Which is?
Sissy:
Boy scouting, honey!
Paula:
Cort, you gotta be kidding!
EXT : Camp Forrest Green.
Cort has taken the boys into the woods to tell them about boy scouting things...
Boy 1:
You gotta be kidding?
Cort:
Listen, you obviously don’t know anything about Indians OK, probably none of you do. Look, here’s a story - these are called Indian markers OK, lets just say you have a chief right, and he dumps his squaw, wife or whatever, and he decides he’ll pickup with another one and take off with her. So he takes off, leaving the son with the mother and all of a sudden a week or two later, the son decides he wants to catch up with his dad right, wants to learn to shoot a bow, you know kill buffalo, whatever these guys do. So what happens is that he comes along, sees the rocks and knows his dad went that way obviously, and so what happens is he comes up and knocks them all down before the mother catches up ‘cos he obviously doesn’t want to see her anymore. So, erm, that’s pretty much the basic story. They tell you where to go.
Boy 1:
If this is as exciting as it gets, we’re in big trouble dude!
EXT : The outskirts of Forrest green.
Sheriff Garris has escorted Tommy to the edge of town.
Sheriff Garris:
Let’s go!
Tommy’s handcuffs are removed.
Sheriff Garris:
Like the sign says, you are now leaving Forrest Green, don’t forget to buckle up! You are damn lucky kid, with all the grief you’ve given me, you should be leaving wearing your balls as earrings. If I ever see you around here again, you can guarantee it! Let’s get the hell out of hear Rick.
The police car drives back toward Forrest Green, leaving Tommy at the edge of Town.
EXT : A road some where around the Crystal lake area, in the woodland.
Marten is walking along the road, drunk and singing an old song.
Marten:
....take you home again Cathlene...your heart will feel no pain...I’ll take you home again...
Not far from Marten, out in the woods, Steven and Annette, a young couple planning to get married. Annette is admiring her ring.
Annette:
Oh Steven, it’s beautiful.. God I love it, I really do.
Steven:
I don’t know, I mean you know, I’m sort’a hurt. You thought I brought you up here just to, Oh never mind.
Annette:
Yeah, well I guess I do owe you.
Steven:
Yeah.. No look, I, I have a headache and I’ve been working out on, and eh... It’s a messy act and... Oh what the hell.
Annette:
Great...
They both began to laugh. Meanwhile, Marten is still singing.
Marten:
...you home Cathlene, Oh. Where’d the road go? Can’t find the road... Oh, Cathlene, you’ve led me astray!
He sees a rock roll past him on the ground.
Marten:
Ahhh.(sigh) What’s that? What’s that?
He takes a final swig of his bottle.
Marten:
Darlin’, you’re gonna be the death of me. But what a way to go huh?
He kisses the bottle and throws it away, he stands there awaiting it’s smashing sound, but he turns and sees Jason holding the bottle. Jason smashes it with one hand, and thrusts it into Marten’s throat.
Marten:
Agghhh!
Marten falls to the ground, and blood pours from the embedded bottle.
Steven and Annette hear the scream.
Steven:
Stay here.
Annette:
Steven, please...
Steven:
Stay here!
Annette:
Steven don’t!
Steven investigates and finds Jason hacking up Marten’s body. As he watches, Jason turns to him, and walks in his direction.
Annette:
Steven, Steven what’s going on?
Steven:
Let’s go!
Annette tries to put her things away.
Steven:
Never mind!
Steven pulls her to his Motorcycle that is beside them, and they get on.
Annette:
What are we going to do?
Steven:
We’re gonna get to the Sheriff’s office...
As he speaks, Jason impales them both on a machete, Annette dribbles blood down Steven, as he whimpers his last breath.
INT : Camp Forrest Green, night time, Paula and Sissy’s cabin.
Sissy:
Pick a card.
Paula:
I don’t want to play anymore, Sissy.
Sissy:
Come on, pick a card.
Paula:
No, I really don’t
Sissy:
OK, OK, I’ve got a great game. It’s called Camp Blood.
Paula:
Great.
Sissy:
Now, the object of the game is, first you take this Jack of spades which is Jason, right, and then you have all these face cards which represrepresent counsellors.
The Queen of hearts.. that’s me. Now, who do you want to be?
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