Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Theatrical poster
Directed by Danny Steinmann
Produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. (executive producer)
Timothy Silver
Screenplay by Martin Kitrosser
David Cohen
Danny Steinmann
Story by Martin Kitrosser
David Cohen
Based on Characters:
Victor Miller
Starring Melanie Kinnaman
John Shepherd
Shavar Ross
Richard Young
Marco St. John
Juliette Cummins
Tiffany Helm
Music by Harry Manfredini
Cinematography Stephen L. Posey
Editing by Bruce Green
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) March 22, 1985
Running time 88 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2,200,000 (estimated)
Box office $21,930,418 (domestic)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning[note 1] (also known as Friday the 13th Part V or Friday the 13th Part V: 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.

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[edit] Plot

A young Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) stumbles upon a graveyard on a rainy night. Two graverobbers Neil (Todd Bryant) and Les (Curtis Conaway) are digging up the corpse of Jason Voorhees. Jason rises from the grave and Tommy witnesses Jason murder Neil and Les, and then Jason advances towards Tommy.

The graveyard sequence turns out to be a dream and an older Tommy (John Shepherd) awakens from the dream in the back of a van. Tommy has been shifted from various mental institutions after killing the mass murderer Jason Voorhees four years earlier, who attacked him and Tommy's sister Trish and murdered his mother. Tommy still hallucinates the hockey-mask wearing killer and it is unclear what happened to Trish. Tommy arrives at a secluded house for troubled teens in the woods, called Pinehurst Halfway House. The house is owned by Dr. Matt Letter (Richard Young) and Tommy is shown to his room by Pam Roberts (Melanie Kinnaman). There, he meets a young boy Reggie (Shavar Ross) whose grandfather George (Vernon Washington) works as the camp cook. The other teens at the halfway house include lovers Tina (Debi Sue Voorhees) and Eddie (John Robert Dixon), redhead Robin (Juliette Cummins), goth chick Violet (Tiffany Helm), and shy and stuttering Jake (Jerry Pavlon).

Meanwhile, Joey (Dominick Brascia), a teenager at the halfway house, is killed with an axe by Vic (Mark Venturini) at the house. One paramedic, Duke (Caskey Swaim), jokes, but another medic, Roy Burns (Dick Wieand), is obviously saddened by the death. Two hicks that live near the halfway house, Ethel Hubbard (Carol Locatell) and her son Junior (Ron Sloan) threaten to shut the place down if the teens don't quit sneaking onto their property. That night, two punks, Vinnie (Anthony Barrile) and Pete (Corey Parker), are murdered by someone unseen after their car stalls; Vinnie has a lit road flare shoved in his mouth and Pete has his throat slit. The next night, Billy (Bob DeSimone) is waiting for his girlfriend, Lana (Rebecca Wood), to finish her shift at a diner and is killed with an axe to the head. Lana comes outside only to be killed with an axe to the stomach.

The next day, more murders begin when Tina and Eddie go off into the woods to have sex. Ethel's farmhand Raymond (Sonny Shields) is killed while spying on Tina and Eddie. After sex, Eddie retreats to wash off in the creek and Tina is murdered when a pair of hedge shears plunge into her eyes. Eddie returns and finds her dead, only to have his head crushed against a tree by a leather strap. Pam, Tommy and Reggie go to a nearby trailer park to see Reggie's brother, Demon (Miguel A. Núñez, Jr.), and his girlfriend, Anita (Jere Fields). Tommy gets in a fight with Junior and runs off, forcing Pam and Reggie to leave. Pam leaves Reggie at the halfway house and then goes to search for Tommy. Demon and Anita are murdered; Anita has her throat slit and Demon is stabbed with a spear while inside an outhouse. Junior races back to the Hubbard House, crying to Ethel about what Tommy did, but the killer decapitates him and then murders Ethel.

Reggie falls asleep and the killer quickly murders Jake with a meat cleaver, impales Robin from underneath the bed with a machete, and then enters Violet's bedroom and murders her as well. Reggie awakens and finds the dead bodies. Pam arrives and also sees the bodies. They try to flee, but encounter the killer, who appears to be Jason Voorhees risen from the dead. Pam and Reggie flee the halfway house and are separated in the woods. Pam finds Duke's body with his throat slit and Matt's body nailed to a tree with a spike in his forehead. Pam also finds George dead with his eyes gouged out. The chase finally leads to the barn where Reggie rams Jason with a bulldozer. But Jason rises and attacks them inside the barn. Pam fends Jason off with a chainsaw and retreats to the upper loft with Reggie. Tommy appears, and is stabbed by Jason. Still alive, Tommy stabs Jason in the leg with a switchblade and climbs up to the loft as well, but passes out, severely wounded. Jason comes into the loft and finds Pam and Reggie, but Reggie manages to knock Jason off the hayloft. As they embrace, Jason pops back up and tries to drag Reggie off the loft, but Tommy musters enough strength to seize the machete and hack Jason in the hand, sending him falling down onto sharp farm equipment. The mask and prosthetic face are removed to reveal Roy Burns, the paramedic as the killer.

In the hospital it is explained that Joey (the boy who was killed with the axe) was Roy's son and it drove him mad, causing him to dress up as Jason and go on a killing spree. Pam goes to check on Tommy, who is asleep, but suddenly Tommy pops up and stabs Pam with a machete. It turns out to be Tommy's dream and Pam comes in, only to see the window broken and Tommy stands behind her wielding a knife and wearing a hockey mask.

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[edit] Reception

Like its predecessors, except for its previous film Friday the 13th Part 3, the film received mostly negative reviews, earning a "rotten" 18% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

[edit] Other notes

According to the Friday the 13th: Return to Crystal Lake DVD Box set, Corey Feldman was only able to make a cameo in this film as a result of him filming The Goonies. Feldman filmed his Friday the 13th Part V cameo on a Sunday as that was his off day of filming The Goonies.

[edit] Soundtrack

On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Harry Manfredini's scores from the first six Friday the 13th films. It sold out in less than 24 hours.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ While the original theatrical release poster and many references to the film render its title as Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, the official title is copyrighted as simply Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, which is verified in the film's opening credits, and under which the film is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Friday the 13th--a new beginning / produced by Timothy Silver ; directed by...". U.S. Copyright Office. http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Friday%20the%2013th%3A%20A%20New%20Beginning&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=EOTValZ6odK0qfknrh4a2HZ6&SEQ=20101025164058&SID=3. Retrieved October 25, 2010. 
  2. ^ "La-La Land Records: Friday the 13th". La-La Land Records. http://lalalandrecords.com/F13.html. Retrieved 2012-01-15. 

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