I promise this is NOT just a plug for
my movie review site (pats self on back) but I recently reviewed all twelve F13 flicks and am interested to hear opinions on the franchise as a whole or the individual films.
When I was young my mom gave me $5 to run down to the video store with a friend and we found ourselves unsupervised in the VERY exciting horror section. Something about the VHS box covers on the Friday the 13th films got me excited (I'd always found cabins in the woods to be creepy) but I didn't know which one to rent. The video store had all of them so I rented the original and Jason Goes to Hell knowing they were the first and last (at the time) and hopefully that would give me an introductory insight into what happened in between.
Needless to say this was a confusing start since Jason is just a deformed footnote in the original and a fully grow demonic hulk in Part 9. I went chronologically through the series after that which straightened things out for me.
After seeing them all many times over the years I'd say I'm partial to Part 2 and Part 7 (The New Blood). What about you?