Way, way worse than the previous couple entries. Total bore. 0 good scenes, 0 good actors, 0 good lines of dialogue. There's no suspense whatsoever. The characters are all so generic and forgettable. The plot is inconsistent with the rest of the series.
When the bad guy enters the scene, do you expect everyone to run away frantically, or do you expect everyone to pull out guns and start shooting? If this was a western, you might expect the latter... but this is a horror movie so you shouldn't expect that - but that's what you get here. Other reviews are SHOCKING me with their 5 star lies, that's all you can call them. They're trolling or something.
Others talking about the "gore" is making me wonder if I watched an edited version or something. I legitimately don't even remember any blood, definitely no guts or severed limbs/heads/eyeballs.
In one scene, some character never before seen gives a whole lot of new info about Jason. How did he know any of this? No explanation. He wouldn't give the info up for free though, one of the characters had to allow this guy to break all his fingers before he'd give up the info. Why? No reason. Just, "you want the information? it's not free, give me your hand," after which he breaks the guy's fingers before telling him the dumbest shit you've ever heard AND THEN REPEATS THE PROCESS 2 MORE TIMES. That's actually one of the best and most memorable scenes btw, and it sucked. The hand is broken offscreen of course.
Every kill seems offscreen btw, even the ones that aren't, and not in a sophisticated Hitchcock sort of way, but more of a "we don't have the budget" kind of way. I don't even care, I just know others might make the decision not to watch it based on this and if I can get 1 person to avoid this movie I'll be happy.
They randomly tied The Evil Dead and Nightmare on Elm Street movies into this, also for no reason and to extremely poor effect. You'd think the writers were on some special drugs to come up with such random bad ideas, but if they were, the movie would be surprisingly stale considering that.
Better than The Howling 7, Puppet Master 8, or Children of the Corn 7 though IIRC. Worst F13 by a lot. You know what a perfect comparison might be? The 6th Halloween movie, the Curse of Michael Myers. Not the producer's cut though - I heard that's actually decent. If you thought the "lore" they added to Michael Myers was a good idea in that one, you'll probably like this garbage.