The end of Friday the 13th: Part III saw Jason Vorhees sprawled on a barn floor after being hung from the neck and then smacked in the head with an axe. Paramedics arrive to pack him off to the morgue, but Jason's obviously a fan of The Princess Bride because he's apparently just mostly dead. He hops out of his drawer at the morgue, murders the attendant and a nurse, and then heads back to Crystal Lake to find more teenagers to hack to bits.
He will be well-served on the teenagers front. There are no less than ten of them on hand, and almost all of them are well and truly focused on getting laid, which in Friday the 13th-land is pretty much signing your own death warrant. The next hour or so will be pretty much entirely occupied with (a) young ladies showing some skin and (b) people being murdered with various household items.
To the extent that the Friday franchise ever penetrated the public consciousness, the factors most commonly known were: Jason Vorhees. Wears a Hockey Mask. Carries a Machete. Murders nubile teens. And in this, the fourth chapter of the franchise, we have pretty much the exemplar of that popular perception. The Final Chapter is replete with titillation of both the sexual and violent kind, and has approximately zero interest in anything but bosoms and murder. It is unabashedly here to give its primary audience plenty of what they want and not to bother about any diversions or details that might distract from that (such as, for instance "how does a guy get whacked in the head with an axe, be pronounced dead and sent to the morgue, and then get up and go running all over the place murdering folks?").
Somehow, this cavalier disregard for anything but blood and nudity leads to arguably the most entertaining entry in the series (I personally favour Part VII, but that's not a common preference). Certainly, if you're looking for the iconic Friday, I would say you should look no further. This is the franchise distilled into a single ninety minute romp. If you're a slasher movie fan, it is absolutely one you should check out.
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