Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 55 Demon Hunter Review

Demon Hunter originally aired on October 2, 1989. This episode changes the ordering of the names so that Robey is top billing and Steve Monarque is listed now fully replacing John D. Lemay on the show. This episode has Micki and Jack dealing with the bizarre transformation of Ryan. Micki says that Ryan will always be a part of her life. It's a nice touch and is so much more than I had anticipated the show to do. I thought once Ryan was gone they'd never mention him again. The cursed antique is a demon killing dagger. This, however, is not the main foil of the episode...a demon is. This episode is really, really weird. There's two storylines going on at once and they intersect at the very end. It's a nice change, but feels very strange coming from this show. The daughter of a demon hunter joined a satanic cult (I know, Satanism again, but at least they are always the villain) and conjured up a demon. She was crazy and wanted to give her father the best 'game' of his life. Micki, Jack, and Johnny on the other hand find a room under the floor where the demon rose up from. This room has become the new vault. Do you see what they're doing to us as viewers? New sign, new vault, new male lead...they really felt that the show needed a face lift for whatever reason. Ultimately, the demon hunter father kills his own daughter to save them all and cast the demon back to hell. It's an intense episode with a lot of new changes in it. Personally, I don't mind Johnny. I think that he's a fine actor. John D. Lemay was better dramatically, but Johnny is a very different role from Ryan as he needs to be. There are plenty of worse examples of cast changes for the worse (like getting rid of Sharona on Monk). Overall, it was a fine episode even though every episode keeps getting weirder and weirder.