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In this fifth installment of the FRIDAY THE 13TH series, Tommy (John Shepherd), the young boy who finally killed hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees in the previous film, has grown up and is now spending time in a home for the mentally fragile. Not long after Tommy checks in though, someone starts killing the patients one-by-.. Read more
| Starring | John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young |
|---|---|
| Director | Danny Steinmann |
| Genres | Horror |
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In this fifth installment of the FRIDAY THE 13TH series, Tommy (John Shepherd), the young boy who finally killed hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees in the previous film, has grown up and is now spending time in a home for the mentally fragile. Not long after Tommy checks in though, someone starts killing the patients one-by-one. Has Tommy picked up where the legendary serial killer left off or has Jason come back from beyond the grave to kill again.
| Starring | John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Corey Feldman |
|---|---|
| Director | Danny Steinmann |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Mar 2002 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
Has Jason returned from the dead? Or is there a copycat killer doing a good impersonation of the Camp Crystal Lake nemesis? The setting for the fifth instalment in the series is a rural rehab centre where Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd), the boy who killed Jason in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, is still haunted by the memory of the hockey-masked murderer. Director Danny Steinmann tries hard to breathe fresh life into the hackneyed proceedings with a tongue-in-cheek script and more characterisation than the series is usually noted for. Beginning and ending with stylish nightmares, this features less blood than usual because at the time the slasher genre was coming under attack from worried liberals and the press.
Gory return of a series that could only offer a repetition of its previous killings, poverty-stricken in imagination and everything else.
If you've seen any other Jason film, then you probably know the "plot" - hockey masked killer slashes teens too stupid to see it coming (or run away). If you're into slasher films there are certainly better, try a modern one if you like more gore, or Friday 13th Parts 1-4.
I like all the Friday 13th movies but was a little dissapointed by this one pretty basic story and unlike the other did not feature much of Jason but it was ok and if you have seen all the others this is a must.
MAD MEN, PSYCHO'S, SERIAL KILLERS AND BOOGEY MEN (183)
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