Friday The 13th: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

11. Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Essentially, this is Jason versus Carrie and it's as bad as that sounds. This is a combination of adding another outlandish element in telekinetic powers alongside the 'zombie' Jason created in the previous instalment and the fact that former make-up artist John Carl Buechler isn't really up to the job of directing, well, anything (Troll, Cellar Dweller and Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College).

When young Tina watches her father physically abuse her mother, she uses her telekinetic powers to destroy the dock he's standing on, causing him to drown. We then move forward ten years and Tina has been a regular in various mental institutions due to her guilt. On a return to Crystal Lake with her friends, she inadvertently releases Jason from the depths where he was trapped by Tommy Jarvis. From there, Jason does what he always does and Tina uses her powers to both trap him in an exploding house and then raises the corpse of her father from the bottom of the lake to drag Jason back down.

Some of the later plots are particularly preposterous, Jason Goes To Hell being the primary suspect, but this one is really daft. In a desperate attempt to make the franchise relevant to the horror community they kept messing with the formula as opposed to looking at the formula and refining it. To be fair, some of the performances are okay and Lar Park Lincoln, as Tina, is particularly good but the film has too many ridiculous elements and, with one of the lowest worldwide box-offices so far of $38million, the series appeared to be one the way out. It needed something special...