Best To Worst List- Friday the 13th

Picking up hours after part 3, Jason, assumed dead, is taken to the county morgue where he wakes up in a none too happy mood. He slices and dices his way back to Crystal Lake only to find...MORE people! Great kills by Savini and actually suspensful. Best kill: Jimmy (Glover) gets it in the hand with a corkscrew and the face with a cleaver.

The last in the Tommy trilogy, has Jarvis, who is apparently still at a halfway home (I'm assuming his stay was extended after his "freak out" at the end of part V), needs some closure and decides to cremate Jason's body. Things go wrong, Jason comes back and is quite pissed and commences to reaquire his old stomping grounds now called Forest Green. McLoughlin turns the series around briefly with this humorous, tongue-in-cheek sequel that lightly pokes fun at both the series and slashers overall.

Not the best but it is a well-done violent suspense 'Halloween' knock-off. Best kill: Spear through the throat (the uncut version is gleefully longer)

Enjoyable addition to the F13 franchise and once again Jason is a formidable villian.
And wow Derek Mears' neck really is that freakin thick.

Rather lackluster but all in all not a bad follow-up as long as you can get past the whole Jason conundrum: If Jason came out of the lake in part 1 as a kid (which would indicate he was already undead), how did he age so fast? (apparently 2 years have passed).

Scary, top-notch acting, a solid and original plot and it's told with dead seriousness; if you're expecting anything along those lines then you'll be severely disappointed. This is a gory, funny, one-liners abound goofball movie. A guilty pleasure pure and simple.

Jason looks great and Buechler is a competent director handling a rather convoluted idea but the film suffers the most from the MPAA forcing so many cuts that it is the most bloodless of the entire series.

The writers throw out the established mythologies for both characters, i.e. Freddy being able to possess someone in the waking world? Jason afraid of water?? For that reason alone I should hate this movie but it delivers in the violence department and it was still nice to see the two on screen together (although I still would have prefered Hodder reprising his role as Jason).

It's silly, it ignores the already established Jason mythology, it rips off soo many films: The Hidden, Halloween 4-on, Elm Street etc) but I liked it. Memorable characters, sickening deaths (tent pole, anyone) and a certain wit help keep this one afloat.

Picking up minutes after the end of part 2, Jason continues to go his rampage of revenge. It's the weakest of the Jason trilogy simply because they relied too heavily on the 3D and nothing else. A few good kills but overall just meh. Best kill: The eye-popper.

The second in the Tommy trilogy has an older Jarvis recovering from the Jason ordeal at a halfway house. Murders start up and guess who's suspect #1? Horrible acting, neutered kills (thanks MPAA) and a stupid 'Murder, She Wrote' style plot make this entry one of the low points in the franchise.

Hands down the worst in the entire series. Acting is worse than usual, the direction is boring and unimaginative, the "plot" spends way too much time on the boat and not enough in Manhattan, Jason seems to be capable of teleportation and toxic waste turns Jason back into a little boy with bad prosthetic makeup and a full head of black hair. And I just gotta say, in a flashback a young Rennie was pulled under by a young Jason--wouldn't that make her somewhere between 20 and 40???? And how did a pleasure boat get into Crystal Lake? When did Crystal Lake move to the East coast? How can the filmmakers or even Hodder for that matter forget which eye Jason lost?