Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th A New Beginning.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Danny Steinmann
Screenplay by
  • Martin Kitrosser
  • David Cohen
  • Danny Steinmann
Story by
  • Martin Kitrosser
  • David Cohen
Based onCharacters
by Victor Miller
Produced byTimothy Silver
Starring
CinematographyStephen L. Posey
Edited by Bruce Green
Music by Harry Manfredini
Production
companies
  • Georgetown Productions Inc.
  • Terror, Inc.
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • March 22, 1985 (1985-03-22)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.2 million
Box office$21.9 million [1]

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (also known as Friday the 13th Part V: A NewBeginning) is a 1985 American slasher film directed by Danny Steinmann and starring Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, and Shavar Ross. The film also features a cameo appearance from Corey Feldman, who portrayed Tommy Jarvis in the previous film. [2] It is a sequel to Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) and the fifth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise. Set years after the events of the previous film, the story follows a teenage Tommy Jarvis (Shepherd), who is institutionalized at a halfway house near Crystal Lake because of nightmares of mass murderer Jason Voorhees, whom he killed as a child. Tommy must face his fears when a new hockey mask-wearing murderer initiates another violent killing spree in the area.

Contents

A New Beginning features a high number of on-screen murders. Aside from its gore and violence, the film has also become known for its explicit nudity, sex scenes, [3] and numerous depictions of illicit drug use. Peter Bracke's book Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th details that behind the scenes, the production was plagued with rampant drug use.

Shot in California in 1984 on a budget of $2.2 million, A New Beginning was released theatrically on March 22, 1985, and grossed $21.9 million at the U.S. box office. The film was initially going to set up a new trilogy of films with a different villain for the series but, after a disappointing reception from fans and a steep decline in box-office receipts from Friday the 13th Part III (1982) and The Final Chapter, Jason Voorhees was brought back for the next installment, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), and has been the main antagonist in the series since. In addition to weak box office returns, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics.

Plot

Five years after killing Jason Voorhees in Part 4, a teenage Tommy Jarvis is tormented by nightmares of the mass murderer, resulting in his internment in numerous psychiatric hospitals. He is eventually transferred to the Pinehurst Halfway House, managed by Dr. Matt Letter and his assistant Pam Roberts.

There, Tommy meets a circle of other teens, including lovers Eddie and Tina, the stutterer Jake, punk rocker Violet, the serious Robin, the compulsive eater Joey, and the young Reggie, whose grandfather George works as the facility's cook. The group is disliked by their neighbor, Ethel, as Eddie and Tina have made a habit of engaging in sexual intercourse on her property. For this reason, Matt forbids the group from venturing outside the facility's premises.

Vic, another patient in the institute, is gripped by a fit of madness caused by Joey's constant pestering and brutally kills him with an axe, leading to his arrest. That evening, 2 greasers, Vinnie and Pete, are murdered by an unseen assailant after their car breaks down, and a diner waitress and her boyfriend are killed the following night. The sheriff hypothesizes that Jason Voorhees has come back to life and is the perpetrator of these murders, while Tommy himself is rendered a suspicious party.

The next morning, Eddie and Tina disobediently go into the forest and have sex while smoking marijuana. They are watched by Ethel's farmhand, Raymond, who is killed soon after. After returning from washing off in the pond, Eddie finds that Tina has been murdered with garden shears right through her eyes, and he soon meets the same fate, by a band twisted right into his eyes and fracturing his skull.

Meanwhile, Reggie begs his grandfather to visit his brother Demon, who has just returned to town, and Pam offers to accompany him while bringing Tommy along. As Pam and Reggie enjoy their visit, Demon offers them enchiladas with his girlfriend Anita, Tommy meets Ethel's son Junior and gets into a fight with him, but then runs away into the forest after realizing his actions. After Pam and Reggie leave to find Tommy, Demon has severe diarrhea from the enchiladas and runs to the outhouse. While using the outhouse, he and Anita are slaughtered.

Upon Pam and Reggie's return to the institute, they are warned of Matt and Reggie's grandfather disappearing. Pam searches for them, entrusting Reggie to Violet, Jake, and Robin. At this time, Ethel and Junior are killed, as are Jake, Robin, and Violet after Reggie falls asleep. Reggie awakens just as Pam returns, and they discover the trio's corpses in Tommy's room. Moments later, the killer, seemingly a resurrected Jason Voorhees, bursts into the house.

After a long chase in which Pam and Reggie find the corpses of Matt and Reggie's grandfather, "Jason" is struck by a tractor and then lured into a barn. Tommy returns and is attacked by "Jason". He defends himself but is knocked unconscious after being helped to the loft area of the barn. Pam and Reggie, who've had time to regroup, set a trap and kick "Jason" from the loft window, but he holds on and grabs Reggie. During the commotion, Tommy regains consciousness, grabs "Jason's" machete, cuts his hand off, and falls from the loft window onto a tractor harrow, which kills him instantly.

In the process, the killer's hockey mask comes off, revealing that he is Roy Burns, one of the paramedics who arrived at the scene of Joey's murder. The police later identify Roy as Joey's father and determine that he went insane after his son's death and sought revenge inspired by the stories of Jason's killing sprees. While recovering in the hospital, Tommy has another hallucination of Jason, but he faces his fears and makes him disappear. He then hears Pam approaching and smashes the window to appear as though he has escaped. When Pam rushes in, Tommy appears behind the door wearing Roy's hockey mask and wielding a kitchen knife.

Cast

Tom Morga appears, uncredited, as Jason Voorhees. John Hock appeared as Jason Voorhees in the opening dream sequence because Morga was unavailable when the scene was shot. He also performed the stunt where Roy fell off the barn. [4]

Production

Casting

The hockey mask design used in A New Beginning. Unlike the one worn by main series antagonist Jason Voorhees, which has red stripes, this model has blue stripes; a subtle hint for the audience that the killer in the film is not Jason. Jason Voorhees mask (Friday the 13th A New Beginning).jpg
The hockey mask design used in A New Beginning. Unlike the one worn by main series antagonist Jason Voorhees, which has red stripes, this model has blue stripes; a subtle hint for the audience that the killer in the film is not Jason.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was cast under a fake title, Repetition, and many of the actors in the film were not aware it was a Friday the 13th installment until after they were cast in their roles. [5] Among the unaware cast was lead actor John Shepherd, who spent several months volunteering at a state mental hospital to prepare for the role, and that he felt "really disappointed" to discover that Repetition was actually the fifth entry in the Friday the 13th series. [5] Actor Dick Wieand stated, "It wasn't until I saw Part V that I realized what a piece of trash it was. I mean, I knew the series' reputation, but you're always hoping that yours is going to come out better", and director Danny Steinmann stated that he "shot a fucking porno in the woods there. You wouldn't believe the nudity they cut out." [5]

Corey Feldman was only able to make a cameo appearance in the film as a result of his involvement as an actor in The Goonies , which was released the same year as A New Beginning. [6] Feldman filmed the inserts of his cameo on a Sunday, as that was his off day of shooting his other film, and the footage was shot in the backyard of his family's home in Los Angeles with a rain machine. [7]

The film is the only entry in the Friday the 13th film series to feature a hockey mask design with two blue triangles pointing downward, as opposed to the more common variant of three red triangles, with the lower two pointing upward. [8] [9]

Music

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Soundtrack album by
Harry Manfredini
ReleasedJanuary 13, 2012
Recorded1985
Genre Film score
Length48:20
Label La-La Land

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. Due to the original source tapes being considered missing at the time, the music for this movie, along with Parts 1-4, were instead sourced from the original sound stem. [10] It sold out in less than 24 hours. [11] In 2018, the soundtrack was reissued alongside The Final Chapter as a separate 2-Disc set, using the same 2012 master. [12]

A remastered "Ultimate Cut" edition is set to be released on September 10, 2024, also by La-La Land Records. [13]

Release

Home media

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was released on LaserDisc, Betamax, VHS, and CED in 1986, [14] and reissued on VHS in 1994 by Paramount Home Video. [15] Paramount released it in the United States on DVD on September 25, 2001. [16] In 2009, Paramount reissued its Friday the 13th films on DVD in "Deluxe Editions", reissuing A New Beginning on June 16, 2009. [17] This release featured several newly commissioned bonus materials, including an audio commentary and interviews with the cast and crew. [17]

Paramount and Warner Brothers co-released the Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Blu-ray box set on September 13, 2013, featuring each of the twelve films; [18] this marked the first Blu-ray release of A New Beginning. [19] Paramount and Warner reissued the film as a standalone double-feature Blu-ray paired with Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives in 2014. [20] Paramount re-released the film in another box set titled, Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection in February 2018; the box set features only the first eight films of the franchise. [21]

Reception

Box office

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning opened on March 22, 1985, on 1,759 screens. The film debuted at number 1 on its opening weekend with a gross of $8,032,883, beating the teen sex comedy sequel Porky's Revenge , the biopic Mask , Berry Gordy's martial-arts action musical The Last Dragon and the Disney dinosaur fantasy Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend . [1] By the end of its theatrical run, the film earned $22 million at the US box office, placing it at number 41 on the list of 1985's top box office earners. The film faced competition throughout the first half of the year against horror releases Cat's Eye and Lifeforce . [1]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning holds an approval rating of 17% based on 23 reviews and an average rating of 3.7/10. [22] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 16 out of 100 based on eight critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike." [23]

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune criticized the film for a perceived lack of originality and said there "is little suspense". [24] Variety wrote that it has "even less variation than its predecessors". [25] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "It's worth recognizing only as an artifact of our culture." [26] A review in the British film journal Films and Filming was critical of its redundancy in comparison to the previous sequels. [27] Henry Edgar of the Daily Press wrote: "If you like the others in this series, you'll like this one. If you didn't, stay away. Jason has his own followers, and he seems willing to continue the bloodshed forever." [28] Steve Davis of The Austin Chronicle criticized the film's repetitive scenes mimicking previous films. [29] Scott Meslow of GQ called the film "the bloodiest, most deranged" installment in the series, noting its total of 22 murder sequences. [5] Leonard Maltin in his movie guide awarded the film the lowest possible rating and called it "as gruesome and disgusting as ever". [30] Writing for Slant Magazine , Jeremiah Kipp wrote that the film has "more plot than usual", but "the tone is crude, raunchy, and leering". [31]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Friday the 13th - Part V". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Bracke 2006, p. 120.
  3. ↑ TV Guide Staff. "Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning". TV Guide . Archived from the original on January 7, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Parker, Jason (December 23, 2010). "The Jason Acting Duo Of 'A New Beginning'". Fridaythe13thfilms.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Meslow, Scott (May 13, 2016). "The Bloodiest, Most Deranged 'Friday the 13th' Movie". GQ . Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Miller, Mark L. (June 13, 2014). "FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 5: A NEW BEGINNING (1985)". Ain't It Cool News . Archived from the original on June 17, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ Farrands, Daniel et al. (2015). Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (Blu-ray). Image Entertainment. ASIN   B00YT9IS1G.
  8. ↑ Clark, Sean (February 13, 2009). "[13 Days of F13] The Masks of Jason Voorhees!". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ Parker, Jason (March 22, 2016). "NECA To Release Replica "Roy" Hockey Mask From 'Friday The 13th: A New Beginning'!". Fridaythe13thfranchise.com. Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  10. ↑ Parker, Jason. "Full Details And Pic For Soundtrack Set Revealed". Friday The 13th: The Franchise. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  11. ↑ "La-La Land Records: Friday the 13th". La-La Land Records. Archived from the original on January 15, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  12. ↑ "FRIDAY THE 13th: PARTS 4&5 (2-CD SET)". La-La Land Records. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  13. ↑ Parker, Jason. "Friday The 13th: A New Beginning Ultimate Cut Soundtrack Announced". Friday The 13th: The Franchise. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  14. ↑ Pratt 1988, p. 123.
  15. ↑ Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (VHS). Paramount Home Video. 1994. ASIN   6300214656.
  16. ↑ Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (DVD). Paramount Home Video. 2001. ASIN   B00005NG6D.
  17. 1 2 McGaughy, Cameron (June 8, 2009). "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Deluxe Edition)". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on June 19, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  18. ↑ "Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection". High Def Digest. Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  19. ↑ "FRIDAY THE 13TH THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Coming to Blu-ray, 9/13". Broadway World. June 11, 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  20. ↑ Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning / Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Blu-ray). Paramount Home Video; Warner Home Video. 2015. ASIN   B012BYDK90.
  21. ↑ "Friday The 13th: The Ultimate Collection (DVD)". Target Corporation . Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  22. ↑ "Friday the 13th, Part V - A New Beginning (1985)". Rotten Tomatoes . March 22, 1985. Archived from the original on January 15, 2024. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  23. ↑ "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning Reviews". Metacritic . Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  24. ↑ Siskel, Gene (March 25, 1985). "Friday the 13th — A New Beginning". Chicago Tribune . p. 5 – via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  25. ↑ "Review: 'Friday the 13th – A New Beginning'". Variety . 1985. Archived from the original on September 8, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
  26. ↑ Canby, Vincent (March 23, 1983). "Friday the 13th A New Beginning (1985)". The New York Times . Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  27. ↑ "Friday the 13th – A New Beginning". Films and Filming (364–366, 368–375). Hansom Books: 40. 1985.
  28. ↑ Edgar, Henry (March 30, 1985). "Bloodbath resumes in yet another 'Friday 13th'". Daily Press . Newport, Virginia. p. D2. Archived from the original on August 31, 2024. Retrieved August 18, 2018– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  29. ↑ Davis, Steve (April 5, 1985). "Friday the 13th: Part V - A New Beginning". The Austin Chronicle . Archived from the original on December 16, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  30. ↑ Maltin 2008, p. 496.
  31. ↑ Kipp, Jeremiah (June 12, 2009). "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning Film Review". Slant Magazine . Archived from the original on November 28, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.

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