loading loading...

Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning Details

1985 Certificate 18
  • Rated:
  • 50
  • from 1762 members

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

loading loading...

Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning

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 Certificate 18
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: 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
  • Critics' reviews (2) of Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning

    View all
  • 3 stars out of 5

    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.

    • Radio Times
  • Gory return of a series that could only offer a repetition of its previous killings, poverty-stricken in imagination and everything else.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
  • Most helpful member's review of Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning

    View all
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    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.

      • Majorjon#1 from HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
  • Most recent members' review of Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning

    View all
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    another classic but poor

    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.

      • Lefrost from Bedford
  • More like this

    View all

Rating breakdown

1,762 Member ratings
  • 100
105
  • 90
72
  • 80
137
  • 70
201
  • 60
386
  • 50
271
  • 40
238
  • 30
149
  • 20
135
  • 10
68

Related user collection

Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop


    • Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning
      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 ...