Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

1985
R
1h 32m

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4.8/10

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Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis, who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees, is sent to a secluded halfway house in the countryside, where the killing of a young man triggers a brutal se... Read allStill haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis, who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees, is sent to a secluded halfway house in the countryside, where the killing of a young man triggers a brutal series of murders in the area.Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis, who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees, is sent to a secluded halfway house in the countryside, where the killing of a young man triggers a brutal series of murders in the area.

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IMDb RATING

4.8/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations

Trivia
Friday the 13th producer Frank Mancuso Jr. didn't get on with the films director Danny Steinmann. Mancuso called Steinmann a pervert and called the film a soft core porn sex movie rather than a slasher horror film

Goofs
(at around 1h 10 mins) When Pam is running through the woods, her sweater disappears then reappears.

Quotes
Anita: What's wrong? Hey, you okay?
Demon: It's them damn enchiladas.

Alternate versions
There is an alternate version of the film which runs 91 minutes and contains several small and mostly inconsequential differences. These are:
"Version 2" is in the lower right hand corner throughout the movie.
There is no close-up of Jason pulling the machete out of Neil's stomach during the opening sequence.
Duke's (the paramedic) line is altered when he sees Joey's body. In the original version he says "Bunch of pussies..." while in Version 2 he says "I'll be damned...".
There is a different angle briefly used in Pete's death.
The scene in which Ethel yells at Junior as he is eating his stew is re-edited to remove the profanity, and uses some different angles.
When Demon is about to open the outhouse door, an alternate camera angle is used and some of the profanity he uses is cut from the scene.
After Junior is decapitated there is an alternate angle of Ethel in the kitchen, and her dialog is slightly altered.
The scene of Robin going to bed is re-edited to exclude some of her nudity and some dialog.
Before the above scene is a scene of Violet in her room which originally was part of a scene which occurred a few minutes later. When the scene happens a few minutes later, the footage that was previously used is not present.
When Pam fights off Roy with the chainsaw, she hits him twice in shoulder. Only the second hit appears in the original version.
When Roy dies, the camera stays on Pam, Tommy and Reggie instead of showing Roy falling on the spikes.

Connections
Edited from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

Soundtracks
The Drowning - Part I
Written by Daniele Amfitheatrof

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Featured review

5/10

Some Hate It, But I Think It's the Best in the Series

That wily rascal Jason Voorhees is at it again....or is he? Yes, this is the installment in the interminable "Friday the 13th" series that thought it would be a good idea to do without its only reason for existence...the hockey-masked Jason. Though you hardly notice the loss, since you don't KNOW it's not Jason until the film's final moments, and the copycat killer dresses like Jason anyway, so what's the difference? If you've seen one axe-wielding psycho in a hockey mask, you've seen them all.

Actually, I kind of like this entry. It provides the best nudity of the series....no fewer than three gratuitous boob shots, and nice boobs they are. And it's funny, sometimes intentionally so, as when the hillbilly mom calls her dufus son a dildo, sometimes unintentionally, as when the Michael Jackson look alike sings a duet with his girlfriend through an outhouse wall while he's on the crapper.

And the filmmakers outdo themselves with the body count this time around. By the end of the movie, there's no longer time to show them being killed off. Characters you've completely forgotten about just pop up as dead bodies. But what do you expect with all that plot to get through? Compared to the other films in the series, this is practically "War and Peace," what with the murder mystery story and the Tommy Jarvis plot line, which attempts to add a sense of continuity to the middle batch of movies (o.k. so Part 6 picks up Tommy's storyline in a completely different place and with a different actor, but for a series like this that's the best you can hope for in the way of consistency).

Grade: C