Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning

I love horror films I have got Friday the 13th parts 1 to 10 and when part 11 comes out I will be buying it on dvd. I liked the bit where Jason gets killed and gets the lady out. I enjoyed the film I really enjoy horror films.

Teen slasher classic Friday the 13th continues with the brilliant idea of putting somebody else into Jason's shoes as implied at the end of the previous movie, Friday the 13th Part IV - The Final Chapter. This alone was an audacious attempt in the continuity of the series due to the fact that Jason Vorhees had already become a franchise on his own and earned his reputation and place right next to Michael Myers. (No wonder these two are often confused... They are both nonvocal, unresponsive, masked killing machines and both turned unimaginable if not immortal at some point of their personal history so that the producers could come up with one sequel after another) Thus, putting a mask on does not make anybody Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers...

...and it didn't!

What is even more pathetic that they already had an example at hand like Halloween (the movie, inspired by Psycho, that started it all) III: Season of the Witch that came out in 1982 (Part V was released in 1985) and ended up the least popular instalment at the box office. Still, the writers and/or producers of this one were so helpless to come up with a sequel and so rich that they didn't mind wasting time on a pathetic movie such as this. I had nothing to do and so much time at my hands today that I sat down to write a review about it. Go figure. Thankfully, further hapless installments like Jason Takes Manhattan or Jason X were produced for this merchandise so A New Beginning does not stand out drastically.

Oh and if this is not the first review you read about this film, then you probably already know that this is the director's last movie. It has the potential to end one's career.

So, the movie starts on a rainy night with two guys having a brilliant idea like digging Jason Vorhees' grave and shouting with joy in the meantime because they can. Like all cool guys who have the same brilliant idea of digging a psychopath's grave in a thriller movie, they die. Tommy, the protagonist of the last Friday, watches this from behind the bushes. Why?, you wonder. Why don't you just run like hell, dude? Why are you standing there like an idiot? Ok so you wondered what was going to happen, alright. Why don't you flee the instant you see those two being butchered? Oh and who would bury Jason with his weapons, by the way?

All of these questions are answered as soon as we realize this is nothing but a dream!! Alright, thank God, of course! Insensible things happen in dreams quite often, right. We relax and sit back only to find out Tommy's headed towards a halfway house in the middle of nowhere. Just to give it the classical "Camp Blood" touch, this is a rural setting in the woods. It is obvious that everybody is destined to die not only because they have to serve a purpose but also due to the fact that the examplary pitiful acting has to come to an end. You can have this movie with a hand camera and 5 random kids from your neighborhood.

Script? Simple! Those who end up naked (be it for sex or a shower/bath or skinny dipping) will die. Those who wander into the woods at night will die. Nerds will die. Jerks will die. Those who look as if they live at vampirefreaks.com (no pun intended) will die. Those chewing a gum will die.

Easy, eh? Oh and don't bother with great effects. A few horrifying masks will do the trick.. And bucketfuls of ketchup.. Who cares anyway?

Anyway these people die one by one and the last ones standing are the right-minded blonde and the wiseacre kiddo. We think Tommy is responsible for the killings. He is not. The person donning Jason's mask is someone you didn't pay attention to at all and have a hard time remembering who he is. But you will remember that he looks first surprised then blan... err evil at one point during the entire 5 minutes he spends on screen then slap your forehead thinking yea it all makes sense now!

After aimlessly running around under the heavy rain and occasionally falling in the mud (I'll pass the scene where the kiddo tries to save the night with a backhoe) these two find themselves in a barn very much like the or perhaps THE one that was in Friday the 13th Part III and like every other barn scene in these series, we have a lame struggle scene and the person with the hockey mask dies.

This is it. Then Tommy sees a vision of Jason in the hospital room, gets up, opens a drawer and since Jason mask is a hospital fixture, finds a hockey mask. Wears it, becomes Jason and yay! The movie is over!

Enough said.