Every Friday the 13th Film, Summarized

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The Mom (Pamela Voorhees) is the killer. She's hell bent on avenging the drowning death of Jason, her developmentally disabled child. Distractable teenage camp counselors allowed it to happen on their watch, so distractable teenage camp counselors BEWARE. "Hey, it's a  young Kevin Bacon," you may find yourself saying. Mom gets machete'd out of existence at the end of the film. 

Jason is now out to avenge the death of his mother . The first film sort of suggests that Jason might, inexplicably, be some sort of zombie, and this film doubles down on it. This is the one where he wears a burlap sack over his head, a la The Town That Dreaded Sundown. 

It's 3-D. This is the one where he acquires the hockey mask. This one is fun, but the self-reflexive gimmickery becomes a little irritating. 

Tiny Corey Feldman  playing Zaxxon.  Spastic Crispen Glover dancing. This film synthesizes the best and worst elements of every film in the series. 

It's not really Jason, but an imposter Jason. So much for the preceding "Final Chapter."

Jason is inadvertantly brought back to life after his dormant corpse is impaled with a metal pole that's struck by lightning. Still pretty fun, but the returns start diminishing pretty sharply for the franchise after this installment.

Jason finally meets his match -- a psychic teenage girl! 

Most of the film was actually shot on a boat on the Hudson, closer to the Jersey side. It's pretty tedious. So much for the psychic teenage girl. 

Soooooo bad. So, so, so bad. 

EVERY franchise should have its own "in Outer Space" installment. Jason was cryogenically frozen on a spaceship, and he gets thawed-out in the distant future. Once he warms up, he gets right back to his old hijinks. 

Neither of them can die, even after a whole film of them pulverizing each other.

Adds nothing.