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Stars and the Director of the critically acclaimed fan favorite horror classic “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” -- C.J. Graham (Jason Voorhees), Thom Mathews (Tommy Jarvis) and Director Tom McLoughlin -- discusses the film and its impact, chat about their respective careers, share behind-the-scenes stories and answer fan questions at their 2019 Hamilton Comic Con Q&A panel moderated by award-winning comedian, author, director, TV and radio host Ward Anderson: C.J. Graham is an American entrepreneur and actor best known for portraying Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and the music video for He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask). Graham is a fan favorite, a regular at horror conventions and has appeared in many documentaries such as The Men Behind the Mask, His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 3: The Memoriam Documentary. Thomas “Thom“ Matthews is a American actor who has appeared in several horror movie hits including The Return Of The Living Dead, Mean Guns, Alien From LA and Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. In part VI, he portrayed Tommy Jarvis -- a man who killed Jason as a young boy comes back to exhume him, but accidentally revives him and needs to return him to the depths of Crystal Lake to stop the terror he unleashed. Thom also appeared in the fan film Never Hike Alone where he reprises the role of Tommy Jarvis, but this time as a paramedic who saves the main character Kyle McLeod. Tom McLoughlin is the director of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and wrote the script for the Pamela Tapes for Friday the 13th: The Game. “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” (stylized onscreen as Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI) is a 1986 American slasher film written and directed by Tom McLoughlin, and starring Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, and C.J. Graham as Jason Voorhees. It is the sixth installment in the Friday the 13th film series. The film follows Voorhees who, after being accidentally resurrected, stalks another group of camp counselors. The original concept called for Tommy Jarvis, the protagonist of The Final Chapter and A New Beginning, to become the new villain, but after the poor fan reception of A New Beginning, the producers brought Jason Voorhees back as the series' antagonist. In resurrecting Jason, McLoughlin made him an explicitly supernatural force for the first time in the series. This version of Jason, an undead and more powerful superhuman, would become the standard depiction for the rest of the series. The film introduced meta humor and action film elements, including shootouts and car chases, into the series. “Jason Lives” was the first in the series to receive some positive reception from critics since the original. In the years since its release, its self-referential humor and numerous instances of breaking the fourth wall have been praised for prefiguring Kevin Williamson's Scream series. Jason Lives is considered a fan favorite of the series, in addition to receiving positive notice from horror film historians. It grossed $19.4 million at the U.S. box office on a budget of $3 million. It is followed by Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. #FridayThe13th #JasonVoorhees #JasonLives Support us on the web:
