FRIDAY 13th V : A NEW BEGINNING

US, 1985, 92 minutes, Colour.
Directed by Danny Steinmann.

Friday 13th V: A New Beginning is the 5th in the series. Part 4 was advertised as The Final Chapter but the producers imagined their way out of that impasse.

The film repeats generally the style of the previous films without the panache of the original. What happens is that a group of teenagers (with an emphasis on sex, drugs and the teenage genre conventions) are lined up ready to be killed off one by one. As with some of the previous films, the only suspense is to guess which one of the anonymous teenagers will go next.

The films focuses on Jason Voorhees, the murderer of the previous films, and his being dug up by the teenagers. However, the focus of attention goes to Tommy Jarvis who was the boy who struggled with Jason. He is interned in an asylum. There are various murders and while Tommy is berserk and finally appears so, there are a number of vengeance murders done by a medical assistant who is grieved at his son's death;

These films are violent, generally ugly, and while the original tried to do something with the horror genre, their successors are mere imitations and surface derivatives.