FRIDAY THE 13th PART V:
A NEW BEGINNING
I told you so

Hardest-sucking of all the Friday movies, this doesn't even have the real Jason (his only appearance is in a dream sequence), just some Jason wannabe. What a rip. At least we get into Roman numeral territory, though. 

Picking up about five years after the last one (guess we're back into sci-fi territory again - where are the ray guns? Where are the jet packs? Dammit people, this takes place in 1990!!! WHERE ARE THE TELEPORTATION BOOTHS?!?!?), this one has the survivor of part 4 as an older teenager at some sort of backwoods halfway house for "emotionally unsettled" teens. Weird kids, in other words. One of them's a little weirder than the rest and kills this really, really, REALLY annoying fat guy (who gave the obviously violent guy an axe?) (great, great sounding murder, though - lots of "squish"). When he's hauled off, somebody starts killing off all the teens, and when he shows himself, he's got himself a brand-new hockey mask that lacks the distinctive hatchet-gash given to him in part 3. 

There's not really much gore here, and not much of a sense of humor (a very strange, obviously incest-produced backwoods motorcycle couple aside) either. The women aren't really that appealing, although this one busty brunette who takes it off only to get stabbed in the eyes with shears seems to have her fans. It's my understanding that this girl is also the only performer in this series with the name Voorhees. 

Goofiest death: one guy has a strap wrapped around his head, which is twisted around a stick on the other side of a tree until it crushes his head. This seems like an extraordinarily easy death to avoid. 

Just plain bad and boring overall. Unnecessary, even by this series' standards. Doubly so when one sees Part VI! Directed by Danny Steinmann, who I've never heard of. The story was actually credited to two people, who are probably both in hiding.

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