Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
1985 Directed by Danny Steinmann
Synopsis
A New Beginning to the first step in terror.
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters. But as things spiral out of control and the body count rises, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most.
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Part of Friday the 13th for Friday the 12th
Yep, I love this film this much. Probably my favorite of the franchise, or at least tied with The Final Chapter (which apparently wasn't so final afterall).
Yeah, yeah, I know everyone bitches about this film because Jason isn't the killer. Admit it...you were loving this before you found out it wasn't Jason. This is loads of fun and think about this...it's a guy in a hockey mask killing people. It could have been Old Man Jenkins under that mask and you would have never noticed either way and it really shouldn't matter. It's still fucking fun as hell. This is the bomb, yo. Stop complaining and love the bomb.
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I must say, i really like this one- it is a smutty "to the extreme" take of its four predecessors. Last of the "Gimmick-less" Fridays. Yes the killer reveal may have been a cop out 20 years ago- but come on it kinda works now ( Tommy still sucks though)
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Well, at least it was something different. A halfway house for insufferably obnoxious teenagers? Nice. Too bad the rest of the movie sucked ass. Tommy Jarvis was just so brooding. I couldn't take it.
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Utter shit. Cast of fuck wits. Clueless script. Pointless, souless. So relieved to see them all wiped out.
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Definitely one of the poorer sequels, it feels a little stilted at times, but it still boasts really amusing kills and I like the fact that it takes place in a mental institute!
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Not the worst example of mid a mid 80s slasher sequel, but the high body count does little to offset the lack of interesting kills.
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Well, at least it was something different. A halfway house for insufferably obnoxious teenagers? Nice. Too bad the rest of the movie sucked ass. Tommy Jarvis was just so brooding. I couldn't take it.
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It's Jason but it's not Jason.
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While there are elements of good in this slasher (mystery, original kills), the majority of it is very predictable with some poor acting. A little bit of a step up from the fourth installment of the series.
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Well let's get straight to it: the great brouhaha at the time of the film's release was because the killer turned out to be . . . not Jason Voorhees. I really do understand why this would be upsetting, especially after the execution. But I have to say that I like the idea. It seems almost natural as a progression, from the mother to the boy in the lake to a psychopath using the legend as a cover-story for his own grief. And actually the identity of the killer, Roy Burns (Dick Wieand), a paramedic who we see in passing earlier in the film, evinces something else about the film: unlike nearly all of the others, the story is actually…
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Standard Slasher movie, this time with hints of a story.
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Fucking dreadful if taken in terms of it's quality, but like the other poor Friday entries, it's at least entertaining in a so-bad-it's-hilarious kind of way. I'm also of the opinion that the ending was actually really cool.