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For me, it looks like this :
1- Friday the 13th
2- Part III
3- Part II
4- Part VI: Jason Lives
5- Part IV: The Final Chapter
6- Jason Goes to Hell : The Final Friday
7- Part V: A New Beginning
8- Part VII: The New Blood
9- PartVIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
10- Jason X
The first chapter will always remain my favorite, not only because it is a horror classic by any means, but also because, by the time I saw it (around 1985 I guess), I had heard about these films and the killer Jason, so it was a total surprise for me when I found out the identity of the killer. As Alky said, part III had some really nice death scenes, plus Jason gets at last his infamous hockey mask! Part II was very solid, but lacked a little something that I and III had. Parhaps it was that potatoe sack. Part VI was a riot, one of the most entertaining of the series IMO with its numerous decapitation scenes, as well as being the first one I saw in a movie theater! Part IV was okay, but the series was starting to look a bit tired already at that point.
As for Jason Goes to Hell, I guess many of you don't remember (or maybe weren't aware of this at the time), but it was produced by Cunningham in an attempt to, as he said it himself "finish what I've started in such a way that no one will be able to bring it back", as he was sorely disapointed by the turn the whole series had taken and thought it had become a pathetic parody of itself. So for that only, and for Cunnigham's and co's audacity in doing something totally off and stating that the movie's sole intent was just to kill the beast, I think it deserves its place there. Unfortunately, as Jason X painfully reminded us, they did not succeed!
The rest is just garbage in my opinion, perhaps with part V only being "bad" as part of the series where it would have been "ok" as a stand-alone movie, while Part VII's only good moment being the sleeping bag scene, which is one of my favorite in the whole series. Nothing good to say about the last two on my list!
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