In
Jason Goes To Hell (which DOES follow continuity) he is back at the camp
grounds. Now yes there is a comic book that is supposed to bridge the gap
between 8 and 9 but I don't buy it. At the end of Part 8 he is reverted to a
child who would mean that he was destroyed. HOW he became an adult in such a
small time is beyond me. Now there is a way to explain this. Rennie only saw
him as a child after that.

Jason
being found at the bottom of the lake chained up, which follows the end results
of Part 7, there is nothing that ties this movie to the previous seven. The
retelling of the curse by Jim at the beginning of the film is admirable, but
they couldn't even use footage from the older movies. They shot new stuff with
that normal looking Jason! There
is no consistency at all and the teleporting Jason thing has always bothered
me.
I'd
ask why they didn’t find Jason's body between Part 6 and 7. It would be much easier to find a body
hanging in the water then lying on the bottom under debris. Both are unrealistic, but by this reasoning,
part 7 is not part of the cannon. As for
the camp closing down, it had been before and reopened. Remember, we don't see the camp in Part 7 so
who says it was open then? Between 6 and
7, Tina went from a kid to a teen. Many
years pass between 6 and 8 (the last time we see the camp open).
Again,
Rennie saw many visions of Jason through the film. Nobody is claiming that young Jason was
actually running around the entire film.
At the end, the visions Rennie sees are dead...so we see a little boy
laying in the water. Way too deep for a
Jason movie. Don't take the scene
literally. Also,
we never saw Jason walk from the hospital to Crystal Lake in The Final Chapter. Part V stated Jason was cremated. Finally,
Jason did show he can travel pretty far.
In Jason Goes to Hell, Jason walked from Youngstown Ohio back to Crystal
Lake in NJ. Not a quick trip.
Jason knocks a kid's head off with one punch, seems like extraordinary power to me?
By
the events of part 6-8 we have to believe that the town just doesn't give a
crap about finding Jason's body. Each of the movies leaves Jason in a position
that a pretty simple police sweep could wrap up. To buy into any of these
sequels just have to accept that the town to covering up for Jason's
activities.
Most of the Paramount F13 movies ended with some sort of a flashback/dream scene that was ignored by the next sequel, so I would put the toxic waste flood/turning into a child as a continuation of that trend. As for the NOES style flashbacks, they were Rennie's dreams not 'real' scenes. I personally would have liked to see the young Jason as mongoloid in these scenes, but dreams are just that persons vision of what happened. Poor decision by the filmmaker? Probably. Ruined the movie? Naaaaw...