Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American supernatural 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 (franchise) 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 psychokinetic teenage girl who inadvertently unleashes Jason from his grave in Crystal Lake, where she and her friends are staying.