Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (AKA Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning)

Dir: Danny Steinmann

1985

**

After a the final chapter, all that is left is a new beginning. The franchise was far too lucrative to have have simply finished after only four measly films, and although the film was, much like the previous films, predictable and often quite hard to watch, it did steer down a slightly different avenue. Danny Steinmann tried to move away from the formula of the first four films, which are pretty much four different versions of the same film, and set it somewhere new and gave our villain a slightly different angle. Instead of being based at camp Crystal Lake, this one takes place in a Pennsylvanian half-way house and instead of killing teens indiscriminately, Jason is out for revenge and is after the little boy who killed him in the last film. Sadly, Corey Feldman doesn't reprise his role as Jason's would be killer but he does make a cameo towards the beginning of the film. The idea was that this would be the start of a new series of Friday the 13th films that would star different killers in each film but by this point the only element of the story people still liked was Jason and his famous hockey mask. Credit to the makers for progression, it's just a shame that it didn't work and wasn't very good.