FRIDAY THE 13TH: A NEW BEGINNING (1985) Reviews and overview

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a 1985 American slasher horror film directed by Danny Steinmann (The Unseen; Savage Streets) from a screenplay co-written with David Cohen and Martin Kitrosser.

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The film includes a massive twenty deaths (twenty-two if you include the opening nightmare sequence). This Paramount release took $21,930,418 at the US box office. It is also known as Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part V.

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Plot:
A young Tommy Jarvis stumbles upon a graveyard while walking through the woods on a rainy night, where he witnesses two grave robbers digging up the corpse of Jason Voorhees. Jason rises from the grave and murders the two grave robbers before advancing towards Tommy.

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The graveyard sequence turns out to be just a nightmare, and Tommy, now a teenager, awakens from the dream in the back of a van. Tommy has been shifted between various mental institutions after killing the mass murderer Jason Voorhees six years earlier, who attacked him and his sister and murdered their mother. He arrives at the Pinehurst Halfway House, a medical centre for troubled teens secluded in the woods. The body count continues…

 

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Reviews [includes spoilers]:

‘By the fifth film, fans weren’t looking for anything terribly original. Rather, they were looking for sex, violence and creative kills. This was delivered, including a pretty risqué and quite awesome sex-in-the-woods sequence, which was actually trimmed by the censors of the day. However, even with some plot twists, this movie really was one of the least of the bunch.’ 7(M) Pictures

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‘The spiciest entry in the series, it boasts the most T&A, an incredible double homicide, a witty reference to A Place in the Sun, and yokels chopping chickens.’ Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

“Setting the movie in and around a mental institute provides some freshness, plus an amusingly excessive early moment in which a twitchy inmate hacks up a fellow resident just for being fat and annoying. The “mystery” killer gets an array of sinister close-ups just in case we can’t guess for ourselves, and many characters are introduced for the purpose of having flares / meat cleavers / machetes shoved into their bodies.” Horrorscreams Videovault

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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning doesn’t deserve its bad rap. I’d rather watch it than half the entries in the series, and genuinely respect the producers for trying to find an organic way to continue the series without ‘cheating’’ DVD Active

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“The end is a serious letdown, either because you hadn’t figured out who the killer was and were disappointed when you found out, or because you HAD figured it out and were disappointed to learn you were right.” Eric D. Snider

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