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Friday the 13th\u00a0 <\/sup>Part V: A New Beginning<\/strong>\u00a0 (1985)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Danny Steinmann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen and Danny Steinmann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Stephen L. Posey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 1985 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Marco St. John, Juliette Cummins, Jerry Pavlon, John Robert Dixon, Debi Sue Voorhees, Tiffany Helm, Jerry Pavlon, Dominick Brascia, Mark Venturini, Vernon Washington, Carol Locatell, Ron Sloan, Anthony Barrile, Caskey Swaim, Bob DeSimone, Rebecca Wood-Sharkey, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Jere Fields, Dick Wieand, Corey Parker, Richard Lineback, Ric Mancini.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $21.9 million (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 21<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0You see, I told you! The Final Chapter did decent box office the previous year, so producer Frank Mancuso Jr. found a way to continue the series. Appropriately enough, it\u2019s called Friday the 13th<\/sup> Part V: A New Beginning<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0This is the one with the \u201cfake Jason\u201d. No spoiler here, everybody knows that Jason Voorhees isn\u2019t the killer in the fifth installment of the mega-popular horror franchise. Many fans regard A New Beginning<\/strong> as a rip-off and an insult to the intelligence. I disagree with the first part and choose to remain silent about the second. Instead I ask you when the F13 flicks have ever been an intellectual exercise. I will agree that it\u2019s a colossally bad movie, so bad that it borders on parody. That\u2019s really the best way to look at A New Beginning<\/strong>, as unintentional parody. The characters are dumber and more cartoonish. The dialogue is sillier. Much of the acting is over the top. I love it, I think it\u2019s a lot of fun. Also, it has the highest body count of the first eight F13 movies (the ones distributed by Paramount). I stop short of calling it a total bloodbath because once again the MPAA interfered and demanded several cuts and trims before awarding it an R. There are still a few cool kill scenes, but I prefer mine heavy on the gore.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0A New Beginning<\/strong> begins with young Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman making a return cameo) stumbling upon Jason\u2019s grave during a rainstorm. He watches as two grave robbers dig up the corpse and promptly get killed by a resurrected Jason. The masked killer then advances towards the terrified boy and raises his machete. Guess what? It\u2019s only a bad dream.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0We catch up with teenage Tommy (Shepherd, Bless the Child) as he\u2019s being taken to Pinehurst Halfway House, a country treatment center for troubled teens. Ever since killing Jason six years earlier, Tommy has gone from one mental institution to another. He\u2019s still pretty messed up; he doesn\u2019t speak much and occasionally hallucinates seeing Jason. The place is run by Dr. Matt Letter (Young, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and his assistant Pam Roberts (Kinnaman). The teenage patients include lovers Eddie (Dixon) and Tina (Voorhees), stuttering Jake (Pavlon), Goth chick Violet (Helm), mentally challenged Joey (Brascia), angry Vic (Venturini) and perky redhead Robin (Cummins). Also, a young boy named Reggie (Ross, Diff\u2019rent Strokes) is visiting his grandfather, the camp cook (Washington).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The catalyst for all that happens is Vic murdering Joey with an axe. Here\u2019s a question, why would they let somebody who\u2019s clearly violent and dangerous chop firewood?\u00a0 Why not just give him a loaded gun? Right after that, the bodies start piling up. Not only does \u201cfake Jason\u201d go after the teens, he also goes after the staff and various locals including a white trash mother (Locatell) and her obviously inbred son Junior (Sloan). In the end, it\u2019s Pam and Reggie that face off against \u201cJason\u201d. Although I told you that Jason Voorhees isn\u2019t the killer, I haven\u2019t told you who is. All signs point towards Tommy being the actual killer, but we know that\u2019s simply not the case. It\u2019s too easy. I\u2019ll leave it at that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As for the killings in A New Beginning<\/strong>, here are the highlights: a foul-mouthed hood gets a flare shoved in his mouth (guess \u201cJason\u201d didn\u2019t have a bar of soap handy), a drug-snorting paramedic gets it with an axe to the head, a girl gets stabbed in both eyes by a pair of hedge clippers (SNIP!), somebody has his head crushed against a tree, a man gets impaled in an outhouse, another man gets decapitated while riding a motorcycle, two people get meat cleavers to the face, a girl gets impaled in her bed by a machete and somebody is impaled on a bed of spikes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Like I said, it\u2019s best to take A New Beginning<\/strong> as a joke. Surely the makers can\u2019t be serious, can they? In its own weird and perverse way, it\u2019s near brilliant. Take the aforementioned mother and son hicks. Their characters are obviously a nod to the grindhouse cult classic Mother\u2019s Day, especially with Junior wearing a pilot\u2019s cap and goggles (Holden McGuire\u2019s character Ike, remember?). The acting is typical for the genre, but I do think that Kinnaman, Ross and Helm turn in the most interesting performances. It\u2019s strange seeing Dudley from Diff\u2019rent Strokes in a movie like this. Kinnaman has real talent and Helm is just hot. I wish her character had been in it more. Miguel A. Nunez Jr. (The Return of the Living Dead) plays a character named Demon that looks like a combination of Prince, Rick James and one of the Jacksons. I know it\u2019s trash, but I get a real kick out of A New Beginning<\/strong>. It\u2019s the good kind of bad movie.<\/p>\r\n Friday the 13th\u00a0 Part V: A New Beginning\u00a0 (1985)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount Pictures\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 92 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, nudity, sexual content, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Danny Steinmann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen and Danny Steinmann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Harry Manfredini\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Stephen L. Posey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 22, 1985 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Shavar Ross, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-V-A-Ne.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Friday-the-13th-Part-V-A-New-Beginning-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C925&ssl=1\")
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