i'm not sure where the 'next' Friday the 13th film can go unless they bring in the TV show conceit of cursed objects, and the hockey mask is just one of them.. the post-Scream treatment of these films has backed creative types into a corner when it comes to portraying how contrived a scenario can you have to strand a group of sex-minded teens/young adults. The Cabin in the Woods totally turned the genre on its head.
jason is a zombie with a mask, but instead of biting he hacks people. Personality wise, there's nothing to work with, so you have to depend on the humans, and frequently, in these films the writing doesn't present any particularly intelligent, likeable characters at all. Nearly everyone is some form of a narcissistic twit, bully, know-it-all, or dimwit.