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

DIRECTED BY: Danny Steinmann  

STORY BY: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen

SCREENPLAY BY: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, Danny Steinmann

RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures

STARRING: John Shepherd; Melanie Kinnaman; Shavar Ross; Debi Sue Voorhees; John Robert Dixon; Ron Sloan; Carol Lacatell; Jerry Pavlon; Juliette Cummins; Caskey Swaim; Richard Young; Vernon Washington; Dick Wieand; Special Apperance by Corey Feldman

PLOT

Takes place several years after the events part IV. Tommy Jarvis, who killed Jason, is mentaly unstable. He is confined to a halfway house. After one of the paitents kills another a sereis of Jason style murders begins. At the end the Fake-Jason is discovcered to be a parametic named Roy. The Paitent who was murdered was his son. Seeing the hacked up body pushed him over the edge. Back at the mental hospitle Tommy has a dream about killing Pam. The movie ends with Tommy poised to kill Pam, weather or not he strikes is not shown; it is also possable that he was just deaming.

MYTHOS INFORMATION:

  • Takes place several years after part 4, the actual time is never said, but Tommy was 12 in the last one and is a good bit older in this one.

  • Since Tommy is released at the beginning of the next one, apparently he did not kill Pam. Either he did not strike, or he was dreaming in the final scene of this movie.

    STORY:

    Even though Paramount had said that part 4 would be the last, the fact that it made a lot of money made them start work on part 5 almost as soon as it was released. Since the last one was The Final Chapter they called this one A New Beginning. They signed part 3's writer Martin Kitrosser and new comer David Cohen to write a script. They hired B movie director Danny Steinmann, who also worked on the script. Rather than try to bring back Jason they decided to make the killer in this one a copycat. Newcomer John Shepherd was signed to play Tommy Jarvis. Dick Wieand was cast as Roy/Fake Jason. His audition consisted of looking at a table and pretending that he was looking at his son's body, he never did understand why he got the job.

    They shot on a shoestring budget with a non-union crew, with a deadline of less than a year in which to finish the movie. They also put in the shot of Tommy holding a knife at Pam as a setup to possibly make him a killer in another sequel. Composer Harry Manfredini returned and unlike on the previous one he had the time to compose a compleat musical score. The movie was released March 22, 1985 and made less money than the previous one. Many fans of the series felt cheated because Jason only appeared in Tommy's dream.

    TRIVIA:

  • Ties with Jason Goes to Hell for the most deaths 22 in all. Unlike in Jason Goes to Hell all of the deaths happen on screen in this one.

  • Grossed $21.3 million domestically.

    • DEATHS:

  • Neil (Todd Bryant): Machette to the stomach (in Tommy's dream)
  • Les (Curtis Conaway): Icepick to the neck (in Tommy's dream)
  • Joey (Dominick Brascia): Ax to the back
  • Vinnie (Anthony Barrile): Road flair stuffed into his mouth
  • Pete (Corey Parker): Throat slashed with a machete
  • Billy (Bob DeSimone): Ax to the top of the head
  • Lana (Rebecca Wood-Sharkey): Ax to the stomach
  • Raymond (Sonny Shields): Knife to the stomach
  • Tina (Debi Sue Voorhees): Hedge clippers to the eyes
  • Eddie (John Robert Dixon): head crushed into a tree with a leather strap
  • Anita (Jere Fields): Throat slashed with a machete
  • Demon (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.): Mettle pole through the chest
  • Junior (Ron Sloan): Decapitated with a meat cleaver
  • Ethel (Carol Lacatell): Meat cleaver to the forehead
  • Jake (Jerry Pavlon): Meat cleaver to the face
  • Robin (Juliette Cummins): Machette through the back
  • Violet (Tiffany Helm): Machette to the stomach
  • Duke (Caskey Swaim): Killed off screen
  • Matt (Richard Young): Found nailed to a tree with a railroad spike
  • George (Vernon Washington): Eyes gouged out, thrown through a window
  • Fake Jason/Roy (Dick Wieand): Impailed on a piece of farm equiptment
  • Pam (Melanie Kinnaman): Knife to the gut (in Tommy's dream)

    • SEX/NUDITY

  • Breaf tit shot as Lana (Rebecca Wood-Sharkey) changes cloths.
  • Tina (Debi Sue Voorhees) shows some T&A after fooling around with Eddie (John Robert Dixon).
  • Robin (Juliette Cummins) wears nothing but a pair of panties to bed.
  • NOTE: The no underwear trend remains in full force in Crystal Lake; neither Lanna, Tina, or Robin wears a bra.

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