If only it were. Alas, this is only part 4 in a series over twice as long. Again, it's almost a carbon copy of the preceding episodes, although this time there is a new "story" element, embodied in the character played by Corey Feldman. It is supremely lame, but at least it's something different.

We open with a flashback, of course, but this time it's not just of the previous episode -- it's from all of the first three! It plays more like a trailer than a flashback. I still don't get why the filmmakers think anyone needs to be reminded what happened in previous episodes. The movie itself is enough of a reminder.

The usual crop of teenagers drive up to Crystal Lake. They engage in some of the worst written banter the series has yet seen. The transparently artificial reasons to get each of the characters alone turn up, and Jason starts picking them off. Ho hum.

Corey Feldman and her sister, who turns out to be this episode's One Who Lives, have car trouble. (Car trouble is an important if not mandatory part of the Friday the 13th formula.) While she's looking forlornly under the hood of the car, a guy comes by and asks, "What's the problem?" "No problem," the OWL replies. "I mean with the car." "Oh." Well DUH, what did you THINK he meant?

Meanwhile, the teens at the camp are spazz dancing. Jason throws someone out of a window and onto a car. The windows EXPLODE when she lands. Jason sure gets around in this one. More so than in previous episodes, one wonders how he knows exactly where to go to do his victims in. He swims out in the lake and waits underwater, because he knows one will come swimming late at night. He knows to stick around afterward, because another will come later. He knows to wait outside a second story window, because he knows his next victim will walk near it. These are only examples.

Finally it gets down to three. The boy, the One Who Lives, and the Significant Other Of The One Who Lives. Predictably, the SOOTOWL is killed by Jason while the OWL stands there idly watching, three foot knife in hand. After the SOOTOWL is thoroughly dead, only then does she attack and lose her weapon at the earliest opportunity. Then she has to run across all the dead bodies and jump out of windows to escape. She takes her little brother to a bedroom and puts some furniture against the door, then waits idly while Jason hacks through it.

And what slasher movie would be complete without a Crawling Over The Unconscious Killer scene? Yes, Jason gets knocked out by a fatal electric shock, and the OWL has to sneak by. Guess whether Jason regains consciousness gradually and groggily or abruptly, with full senses, and a sudden lunge at the ankles.

While Jason and OWL duel it out, Corey Feldman is meanwhile shaving his head. Bald, he descends the stairs, gets Jason's attention, and says, "Remember, Jason?" This distracts Jason long enough for the OWL to spear him in the head. Huh? What, the kid couldn't have distracted Jason without a shaved head? Next time just throw a stick at him. Ugh. The sheer stupidity of the moment makes it one of the most groan-inducing of the whole series. On top of that, it's a series inconsistency (as if it's rational to look at something comparatively minor like consistency in light of the larger stupidity) because in the first and second movies, Jason was very clearly NOT bald as a kid, so this kid's effort to look like a young Jason completely failed. And how would he know, anyway? Probably the reason it worked so well as a distraction was because Jason was trying to figure out just what the HECK this loony kid was trying to do.

We end in a hospital, naturally. Kid gives OWL a hug. The camera fades out on a shot of the kid's face, looking evil, like he just may become the next Jason. Well what did he expect? That's what happens when you shave your head. You become a homicidal maniac. Duh.

Rating: 1 turkey.

Scenes to watch for: Spazz dancing; landing on the car.

Best line: "I need a bypass patch cord." (spoken by Corey Feldman's character, explaining to his mother why he can't play video games on the TV in his room)

Things that make you go "Gack, Bluurg, Gargle, Bb-bbb-bb-bb-bb-bbb": The head shaving thing.