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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
(Slasher) 7*******skulls
*Blood* *Violent* *Lots of Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Gory*
1985/Color/92 Min./Paramount Home Video & Paramount Pictures & Terror Inc./Rated R
Director............Danny Steinmann (Savage Streets)
Screenplay......Martin Kitrosser & David Cohen & Danny Steinmann
Music...............Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th & Part II & III)
Producer..........Timmothy Silver
Executive Producer.....
Special Make-up Effects by Martin Becker
Based on a story by Martin Kitrosser (Screenplay Friday the 13th III) & David Cohen & Danny Steinmann
Dramatis Personae
Pam.............Melanie Kinnaman
Tommy...........John Shepherd (Thunder Run)
Reggie..........Shavar Ross
Matt............Richard Young(Assassin, Final Mission,Love at the Top)
Sheriff Tucker..Marco St. John
Robin...........Juliette Cummins
Ethel...........Carol Locatell
George..........Vernon Washington
Eddie...........John Robert Dixon
Jake............Jerry Pavlon
Duke............Caskey Swaim
Victor..........Mark Venturini
Vinnie..........Anthony Barrile (Hamburger Hill)
Joey............Dominick Brascia (Evil Laugh)
Violet..........Tiffany Helm
Deputy Dodd.....Richard Lineback (Woman With a Past)
Tommy at 12.....Corey Feldman (Friday the 13th IV, The Lost Boys)
Jason...........Dick Wieand
Demon...........Miguel A. Nunez Jr.(Return of the Living Dead)
Lana............Rebecca Wood-Sharkey
Anita...........Jer‚ Fields
Tina............Debisue Voorhees
Critique: Let's get this straight: Jason returning from the dead to chop up a bunch of ill-behaved teenagers is a new beginning. What's the new beginning? A new hockey mask? Knife? Nope. Same ole - same ole. Which also means it's more fun than most on the rack.
Plot Summary: Two whooping kids find the grave of Jason, as Tommy (Cory Feldman) watches unable to move or call out. "Let's rip this sucker open. We've got to get a look at the main man.' So opens this fifth Jason installment. Jason Voorhees has become a known commodity. Opening this grave has the kind of result one would expect. Our hero (Cory Feldman) wakes up from these uneasy dreams--did he witness these events as a child, or is it a trick of the dream to make him a child again? In any case, is troubled. A van brings from the Unger Institute of mental health. (a state institution from which Tommy has graduated) We are not impressed with the attendants. We wonder about background checks at the institute. Pam Roberts (the assistant director). Matthew Letter tells Tommy about Pinehearst. As per DSM3, the diagnosis is severe trauma caused by the brutal self defense murder of a psychopathic killer. No treatments were successful. Tommy has smuggled a knife into Pinehearst. He's also got an assortment of Halloween masks that he made himself. Is Tommy becoming Jason? The kids use white trash Ethel's land for fornication. Ethel comes by and says she wants these crazies off her land. Joey annoyed Vic a bit too much. Vic's wood chopping turns to Joey chopping. A step backward in Vic's therapeutic schedule. It appears Jason has returned as two young louts are signal flared and slit throated. The bothersome cocaine-snorting attendant and his vain girlfriend are tendered Jason's attentions. Sheriff Tucker thinks it's Jason Voorhees. Did anyone really see the body cremated? Pinehearst inmates are sexually active in the presence of Jason. That is a bad combination. Jason is on a roll as the body count mounts.
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