Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
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Directed by	John Carl Buechler
Produced by	Frank Mancuso, Jr. Iain Paterson Barbara Sachs
Written by	Manuel Fidello Daryl Haney
Starring	Lar Park Lincoln Kevin Blair Susan Blu Terry Kiser Susan Jennifer Sullivan Elizabeth Kaitan Jon Renfield Jeff Bennett Heidi Kozak Diana Barrows Larry Cox Craig Thomas Diane Almeida Kane Hodder
Music by	Harry Manfredini Fred Mollin
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Edited by	Maureen O'Connell Martin Jay Sadoff Barry Zetlin
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 13, 1988 (1988-05-13)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.8 million
Box office	$19.1 million (US)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American slasher film directed by John Carl Buechler and starring Lar Park Lincoln, Kevin Blair, and Susan Blu. It is the seventh installment in the Friday the 13th film series, and the first film to feature Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees, who would play the character in the following three films. Incorporating elements of supernatural horror, the film follows a psychic teenager girl who inadvertently unleashes Jason from his grave in Crystal Lake, where she and her friends are staying.

It follows Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and precedes Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.

As a young child, Tina Shepard witnesses her alcoholic father physically abusing her mother. The emotional trauma unlocks Tina's previously latent telekinetic powers, which result in her father's death at the bottom of Crystal Lake. Ten years later, Tina, now a teenager, is still struggling with the guilt surrounding the death of her father. Tina's mother, Amanda, takes her to the same lakeside residence so that her powers can be studied (and unknowingly exploited) by her psychiatrist, Dr. Crews. Dr. Crews begins a series of experiments (verbal assaults) designed to agitate Tina's mental state, forcing her powers to become more pronounced.

After a particularly upsetting session with Dr. Crews, Tina runs from the cabin and to the dock thinking about her father's death. While thinking about him, she wishes he would come back. Instead, Tina's psychic powers breaks the chain around the neck of Jason Voorhees, the undead Crystal Lake serial killer. Tina's torment from her powers is increased as Jason emerges from the lake and his reign of terror descends on the area once again.