Jan 6, 2023
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, 1985)
"Jason Voorhees? You're out of your fucking mind, you've been out in the sun too long! Jason Voorhees is dead! His body was cremated, he's nothing but a handful of ash."
"You know that for sure, mayor? Were you there? Did you see him cremated?"
#friday the 13th part v: a new beginning#jasoniad#slasher film#horror imagery tw#1985#danny steinmann#martin kitrosser#david cohen#john shepherd#shavar ross#juliette cummins#todd bryant#tiffany helm#melanie kinnaman#corey parker#miguel a. núñez jr.#sonny shields#dick wieand#rebecca wood#ric mancini#absolutely the dumbest film in the series so far‚ and contender for one of the dumbest slashers to come out of the 80s marathon of big#screen splatterers. starts with an unlikeable vibe full of ott eccentric characters and needlessly goofy asides and silly performances#and ends with one of the most inane and inexplicable twists in horror cinema (so much so that a scene explaining it had to be shot and#inserted in post after test audiences understandably reacted with bafflement). I'd be even harder on this film if it wasn't also doing#one thing really well: it sets up one twist so cleverly and with such capable misdirection that i was fully suckered when it DOESN'T happen#and instead the stupider twist does. it sounds weird but it's a case of leading on a smug and self confident horror viewer (guilty) and#it's honestly a brilliant bit of 'i bet you have this figured out huh.. Wrong!'. otherwise tho yeah this is not a great film. also it's#very noticeably sleazier and nastier than its predecessors‚ with much more nudity and sex and general exploitation.#director Steinmann had a background in pornography and it shows pretty clearly; disquieting too to read about the bts shoots which give an#impression of an unsafe and exploitative film production which pressured the women in the cast into doing more nude work
