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Friday the 13th Part V:
A New Beginning (1985)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 6/06, 11/14

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6/06: Oh, boy...more Friday the 13th insanity.

The fifth part is the Halloween III: Season of the Witch of the franchise and is a major source of contention among the fans. Anyway, not that this point is relevant, but it certainly helps when the characters have real dialogue in a Friday the 13th picture.

However, the filmmakers do a good job of making the characters annoying as much as possible and then having them killed pronto. I guess the goal is for everybody not to feel bad about it. By the way, the hair on the gothic girl looks practically burned.

All in all, if you never saw Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning before and you were expecting more of the same, well...you're in for a big disappointment.

11/14: Well, they got one part of the title correct for Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning because it's literally the beginning of the decline in quality for the franchise.

I'm conflicted by whether to think of the fourth sequel as a true Friday the 13th picture, but I feel it's not and don't view it as part of the franchise. The mystery is given away in the first 25 minutes, but those new to the film will not be sure why the EMT took the fat kid's death so hard until the end. And then they'll be fooled into thinking it's Jason the entire time only that it isn't him but the same EMT guy pretending to be him.

For a human being, the EMT guy sure has the strength of twenty men. As a matter of fact, it's Jason the entire time, yet the filmmakers tried to trick everybody by making a last-minute switch to reveal that it's not him. What doesn't make sense is the EMT guy choosing to kill all these people when he should be going for the guy who did his son.

Let's face it: Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning is among the worst films of the franchise. It has an awful set of characters, so who cares if they get bumped off? Can you believe it took three writers to come up with the crap for this sequel? Tommy Jarvis hardly says a thing. It's reported that the actor who played him prepared for the role by visiting a state mental hospital as part of his research. I don't think it's that hard to play somebody with mental illness.

All in all, I love the poster for Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning because the hockey mask is the most fake I've seen which should be considered as a dead giveaway.