Kane Hodder should have been Jason in Freddy VS Jason

[Dr. Briggs]

In a Friday the 13th film, I'm not looking for someone to be haunted by what Jason did to them in the past. I also, do not want some guy posing as Jason because he is a crazed loon. The film MUST have the real Jason doing his thing, otherwise, it's bullshit.

The original is pretty good, but I don't have it on the pedistal most people do. I actually like part II better than the first.

I put Part V: A New Beginning and Halloween III: Season of the Witch in the same boat. There is a reason those films failed, and ended up being "one offs".

I'll give you Violet. I actually forgot about her, and yeah - she was the most interesting.

I consider Halloween 3 the same general way you do. Although I personally find it to be good, it's not part of the series to me, because it has nothing to do with any other part.

However, this is not so with Friday the 13th part V. So Jason himself wasn't in it but for flashbacks, but the film still revolves around him, his legacy, one of his notable victims, with a killer going around with the same MO. It's kind of like the Saw series after part III: just because the main killer is dead and the new one has a slightly different way of doing things doesn't mean it doesn't belong in the series. I'd say F13 failed among fans because they tend to hate it for what TV Tropes calls the "just here for Godzilla" factor. But not me, to me, plot counts more than the simple presence or absence of a character. I like horror as long as it works, and lack of a character doesn't typically make something "not work."

Admittedly the lack of a character can sometimes be a huge strike against a movie when a character is needed and replacements have to be written into long-standing plots, but F13 V is not one of those cases in my opinion. Roy was driven to kill; Roy knew about what Jason did and used it to his advantage; Tommy was traumatized by what Jason did and served as a red herring; the plot worked perfectly fine. Would V have been better if they simply came up for some way for Jason to come back to life or survive what he went through, and done the rest exactly how it was done? I myself don't think so.