| Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning | |
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| Directed by | Danny Steinmann |
| Produced by | Frank Mancuso Jr. (executive producer) Timothy Silver |
| Written by | Martin Kitrosser & David Cohen (story) Martin Kitrosser & David Cohen and Danny Steinmann (screenplay) Victor Miller (characters) |
| Starring | John Shepherd Melanie Kinnaman Shavar Ross |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | Stephen L. Posey |
| Editing by | Bruce Green |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 22, 1985 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,200,000 |
| Gross revenue | $21,900,000 (domestically) |
| Preceded by | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter |
| Followed by | Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives |
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a 1985 slasher film. It was released on March 22, 1985. It is the fifth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Despite the previous film claiming to be the "final chapter," this installment set out to live up to its title by being a "new beginning" for the franchise. However, these plans fell through when the film was greeted with backlash from fans who felt deceived and betrayed by the film's twist ending.
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Plot
After four years of being shuffled around various mental institutions, 16 years old Tommy Jarvis has now been placed in the Pinehurst halfway house, one that is unique because it runs off an honor system by Dr.Matt Letter. It is not made clear what happened to Tommy's sister, Trish, following the events of the previous film, but it's presumed she has since died.Tommy is shown around by Pam Roberts,the supervisor the house,to his room where he meets Reggie; a young boy whose grandfather,George, cooks at the house.
Shortly after Tommy's arrival, one of the patients, Vic, attacks and kills another patient named Joey with an axe and is arrested. Paramedics and sheriff officers arrive. As the paramedics work to "clean up the mess", jokes are made by one of the paramecics about the murder which apparently angers the other of the paramedic. That night, two teens Pete and Vinnie down the road are killed after their car stalls out. Billy (a worker at the halfway house) is murdered while waiting for his girlfriend Lana to finish work. Lana is killed shortly afterward.
The following day,patients Eddie and Tina run off into the woods to have sex and are killed. Pam then takes Reggie to see his brother Demon. During this visit, Tommy gets into a fight with Junior, the mentally challenged son of a local woman Ethel,and runs off. Shortly after Reggie and Pam leaves, Anita is killed when her throat is slit and Demon is speared. Junior goes home crying, and while recklessly riding his motorcycle around the yard, he's beheaded. The killer then murders Ethel by chopping her through a window, with a meat cleaver leaving her face down in a pot of stew.
Soon, Pam and Reggie return and Pam sends Reggie off to bed then leaves to look for Matt and George,who both had went missing earlier going to search for Tina and Eddie. After Reggie falls asleep, while remaining patients Jake and Robin are watching a movie, Jake tries to tell Robin that he likes her but gets nowhere; he heads upstairs and is killed with a meat cleaver to the face. Shortly after, Robin heads upstairs to go to bed and is stabbed from underneath, very shortly after discovering Jake's corpse in her bed. Violet, who couldn't hear anything because of her blaring music while she is dancing, is choked and stabbed in the stomach. Reggie wakes up and begins to try and determine if anyone is in the house. Instead, he finds a stack of bodies; Pam comes back and hears Reggie screaming. She then sees Jake, Robin, and Violet's dead bodies.
Pam and Reggie soon confront what appears to be Jason Voorhees, back from the dead.Along the way,Pam finds Matt nailed to a tree with a railroad spike in his forehead; and George,whose eyes are gouged out.Jason chases the survivors into the upper level of the barn. Just as he is about to find them, Tommy comes in and starts having flashbacks. Unfortunately, he is slashed across his abdomen by Jason. He then turns his attention back to finding the survivors. Just as he is about to kill them, Tommy recovers and knocks Jason out the upper level of the barn. He lands on a piece of farm equipment covered in steel spikes. As they look down at the body (with the hockey mask knocked off), they realize that the killer is not really Jason, but is actually Roy Burns, whom the Sheriff describes as a loner. He was the paramedic who arrived on the scene to see his son Joey all hacked to pieces. He had been using Jason's M.O. and identity to avenge the death of his son. It is also revealed that Roy ran off after his wife died giving birth to their son. The final scene of this movie takes place in the hospital with Pam, the halfway house director, visiting Tommy as he recuperates.
Tommy appears to be having delusions of Jason, and attacks Pam. Tommy then suddenly wakes up in his hospital bed, the previous attack having been a dream. He then walks to a dresser in the room, and pulls out Roy's hockey mask. Pam then walks into Tommy's room to find Tommy gone, with the window smashed open, making it appear as though Tommy has run away. However, as the door closes behind Pam, Tommy is revealed, wearing the hockey mask, preparing to attack Pam, once again leaving the impression that Tommy will become a killer like Jason.
Cast
- Melanie Kinnaman as Pam Roberts
- John Shepherd as Tommy Jarvis
- Shavar Ross as Reggie
- Richard Young as Matt
- Marco St. John as Sheriff Tucker
- Juliette Cummins as Robin
- Carol Locatell as Ethel
- Vernon Washington as George
- John Robert Dixon as Eddie
- Jerry Pavlon as Jake
- Caskey Swaim as Duke
- Mark Venturini as Vic
- Anthony Barrile as Vinnie
- Dominick Brascia as Joey Burns
- Tiffany Helm as Violet
- Richard Lineback as Deputy Dodd
- Corey Feldman as Tommy Jarvis (age 12)
- Bob DeSimone as Billy
- Jere Fields as Anita
- Ric Mancini as Mayor Cobb
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Demon
- Corey Parker as Pete
- Rebecca Wood as Lana
- Ron Sloan as Junior
- Debi Sue Voorhees as Tina
- Dick Wieand as Roy Burns
Box office
The film opened in 1,759 theaters taking in $8 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film has grossed $21.9 million.
Cuts
Minor cuts were made to the film in order to avoid an "X" rating:
- Some of the waitress twitching on the ground after she's axed in the head was edited out.
- The sex scene was heavily cut due to explicit nudity, reducing it to the far shorter version now seen.
External links
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning at the Internet Movie Database
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning at Allmovie
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning at Rotten Tomatoes
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning at Box Office Mojo
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