UnowPriceless hyped garbage

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

jansergeant Friday the 13th will always be a classic the horror genre but this one had more of a funny touches then it was actually scary. The story is a bit weird but OK, there were some suprising twists but the acting besides some was bad. Some ways of how Jason kills his victims were pretty original. Nice cameo of Corey Feldman in the beginning.

Foreverisacastironmess Ok so while this definitely isn't a favourite of mine in this film series, I wouldn't exactly lump it with the worst ones either - has nobody seen Jason Goes to Hell around here?! For the most part it plays like your basic Friday the 13th outing, but it's decidedly dull and off-putting somewhere too, and doesn't have any real suspense of horror ambiance to it, it just has a strangely offbeat and obnoxious tone running through it that really doesn't gel with the overall feel of the previous four movies. I was never particularly bothered by the whole imposter Jason thing that so divided a lot of fans on this one, I don't think the idea worked out very well but I do think it made for a nice change of pace in the, by this point tired Jason formula and if nothing else, made for a unique entry in the series. I find it a bit of a creepy notion that someone could take on the murderous spectre of Jason in the depths of their rage and grief, and there are similarities between Jason and Joey, although I doubt very much the director was aware of them. There are some things about the shaky plot that just don't add up though, like why didn't bland boring Roy the killer medic masquerading as Jason just immediately go after Vic who he knew had killed his backward son, instead of killing the other innocent housemates and random people who had nothing to do with anything? I never loved these pictures for their logic but it's just plain nonsensical. It's strewn with really weird, tacky touches, like the overly voyeuristic sex scene in the woods, and the two 50s looking greaser boys on their way to god knows what, a poor guy getting offed while taking a dump, and especially the horribly over the top grubby hillbillies who are so cartoony that they feel like they're from a different movie and really bring this one down, I hate those two! The old bag was mildly amusing because of her potty mouth, but the 'actor' who played Junior was unbelievably annoying, you'll never be happier to see a man get his head lopped off while riding a motorbike in a horror movie! And I'm afraid that I really never liked the actor who played Tommy, he just seems stuck up and cold to me, I think the guy believed he was doing shakespeare or something.. Shepherd was intense and everything, but he was also dead boring, he's meant to be the lead but he barely stands out. At least the other actors looked like they were having something of a good time with it. His Tommy isn't a memorable one and is just a strange transitional period between Corey Feldman and Thom Matthews. Now little Reggie the Reckless was a character that I did like and was rooting for, what a cool energetic kid, he brought a lot of fun to the movie, and that goes for Miguel Nunez Jr who was so effortlessly entertaining to watch that he so deserved a bigger part than what he got. And I know it's par for the course with all Friday movies, but with this one it's quite glaringly obvious that people are showing up purely to die and up the kill count, with the most gruesome one being when the beautiful naked girl gets the shears shoved into her head and snapped shut, which is one of the most viscerally brutal kills out of all these movie, bravo on that one! And for whatever reason one of the scenes that always stuck with me was when the waitress is killed outside the diner. I don't like how she gets an axe to the gut but I love that shot! The way she's lying there with the neon lights on her looks really cool and stylish to me, very 80s.. One of the best kills doesn't even involve Jason, it's right at the beginning when poor dumb and hilariously oblivious Joey gets an axe in the back just for trying to be nice! It's funny but also tense and chilling. The whole killing spree kicks off because of a chocolate bar but it still all makes for some fun schlocky 80s slasher goodness in its own right, just not as much fun as a lot of the others. It was an oddball stepping stone between the strong finish of part 4 and the tongue in cheek undead shot in the arm the series needed with part 6, and it's 7 damn enchiladas out of 10 for me yo! X

TheLittleSongbird 'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all of. The fifth film in the series 'A New Beginning' is the most maligned 'Friday the 13th' film by critics and fans, although it has garnered a cult following and its fair share of defence over time. To me, 'A New Beginning' is better than its reputation and that it tries to do something different is laudable. Also do not think it's the worst 'Friday the 13th' film. Having said that, the disappointment is understandable. There are good merits here, but it also did fall short to me. Starting with 'A New Beginning's' strengths, the best things about it are the as ever haunting music score and the terrific performance, both disturbing and moving, of John Shepherd. There are a few darkly funny moments, a few creepy ones and some of the death scenes are creative. The nightmare sequences are stylish and as nightmarish as one would hope. It's a pretty decent looking film, not cinematic art (but in all honesty that can never be expected from a 'Friday the 13th' film) but not amateurish.However, there are things that work against 'A New Beginning'. From my understanding, It is not that the film is different in the lack of Jason (this didn't bother me at all and is an insignificant issue), the more tongue-in-cheek tone and the idea it tried to introduce that irked fans, but the generally misguided way it was executed. More problematic are the problems as a standalone. The acting is not good (Shepherd is the sole exception), Melanie Kinnaman being awful, and the clumsy and far too simple dialogue, that slips more into vulgar camp than darkly tongue-and-cheek, and the mostly annoying and dull stereotypes passing for characters fare worse (the only one to be interesting and get proper development is Tommy). 'A New Beginning' has the highest body count, and while there are some creative and unsettling deaths (others less so, hurt by gratuity and predictability) it was almost as if there were too many death scenes that gives one not that much time to compose themselves after each one. There is not enough suspense, the creepiness is too far and between and the story is thin and very hackneyed, with one of the series' silliest endings. The mystery elements don't work, being far too obvious, and neither does the identity of the killer, the killings committed by somebody that is not in it much in their real guise and doesn't have much presence.In summation, not that bad and not deserving of its black sheep reputation but a long way from being great. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Michael_Elliott Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)** 1/2 (out of 4) Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd) is now a teenager and is sent to a home for troubled youths. Once there we learn that he's still suffering major damage from the trauma that he suffered as a child thanks to Jason Voorhees. Before long various people are being killed off and it seems that Tommy's damaged mind might be behind it.Friday THE 13TH: A NEW BEGINNING is probably one of the most hated sequels in the history of cinema but I must say that I think the film is a lot more entertaining than many of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET sequels as well as several films from the other major horror series. And yes, this here is a lot better than JASON GOES TO HELL and Friday THE 13TH PART VIII. With that said, on a technical level there's no question that this here is a pretty awful movie. The performances are weak. The death scene are rather lame. The entire mystery is downright stupid. So, why do I still like this movie? To me this fifth film in the series is hated because of who the killer isn't. Yes, by now we all know who the killer is but why can we be mad at the film when the title tells us we're starting something new? I really don't mind the film going off course even if it was a failure. The entire mystery aspect really isn't played out all that well because the screenplay and director never tries to really push it. There are a couple red herrings brought up at the start but the screenplay never bothers to try and build the mystery of who is doing the killings.That's because the majority of the running time is devoted to death scenes. There's a large number of people that are killed off here, which is usually a great thing but sadly the death scenes here are pretty forgettable. The biggest problem is that a lot of the violence happens off screen and that's not something fans of the series wanted. I'm not sure if the producers were fearful of the MPAA or if they were just trying to deliver something different. Either way, the lack of any real kills is rather annoying.With that said, the entire film has a very cheap feel like a direct-to-video film that was trying to rip-off the series. It never really feels like a F13 movie and I'd argue that it almost comes across as some cheap softcore film. There's a lot of nudity here and a terrific sex scene. There are some really annoying characters and a lot of questionable material from the screenplay. You could even argue that the film has more laughs than anything else and especially how the Vic and Joey characters play out. I might even go as far to say that the film was meant to be a comedy. Hell, how to you explain the mother-son redneck characters?