Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 16:45:

Prez wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 16:27:
For those of you who partake in cheesy 80's horror which is your favorite Friday the 13th movie?

Hmmm...80s and cheesy? That's a tough one for "favorite". Toxic Avenger and Chopping Mall come to mind.

Note you did not set the qualifier of "good".

Toxic Avenger was a favorite series when I was a kid, but it's rough now. Not rough as in production values, which is what you expect from Troma, but rough as in "who the hell thought that was a good idea." Which is the point, but limits have shifted in some places but not others over the past 35 years, expectedly.

Chopping Mall is always great. I've taken my wife through a ton of cheesy 80s horror, and that was among her favorites.

Prez, Mad Mullet Jack is on my list.
As for best Friday the 13th, most aren't really good, because they're low budget 1980s dead kid horror movies which means you get about 10 minutes of action and 70 minutes of wooden actors whining about teen problems or doing things no kid would ever actually do. That said, I'd say that Jason Takes Manhattan is mostly boring but has some of the most "what the fuck" things going on, Jason X is way underrated, Jason Goes to Hell is unwatchable, 6 has the best theme song (I met Alice Cooper last weekend!), and 4 is the best overall.