Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes to Hell is a genuine curiosity purely for how completely it abandons everything the franchise had established up to this point, replacing the hulking silent killer with a body-possessing parasite plot that has virtually nothing to do with the Jason audiences knew. The film's title is a flat-out lie since Jason barely appears as himself for more than a few minutes total, spending most of the runtime as a demon slug jumping between increasingly disposable hosts. Steven Williams as bounty hunter Creighton Duke delivers the film's most memorable performance almost entirely through sheer commitment to nonsensical dialogue that somehow works in context. The practical effects during the body transformations are genuinely well done, but they're in service of a plot so far removed from the series' identity that it barely qualifies as a Friday the 13th film at all. Worth seeing once purely to understand how strange this franchise got before New Line handed it to a very different crossover.