Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a 1985 slasher film. It was released on March 22, 1985. It is the fifth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Despite the previous film claiming to be the "final chapter," this installment set out to live up to its title by being a "new beginning" for the franchise. However, these plans fell through when the film was greeted with backlash from fans who felt deceived and betrayed by the film's twist ending.

Box office

The film opened in 1,759 theaters taking in $8 million its opening weekend. Domestically, the film has grossed $21.9 million.

Trivia

• Originally, the opening of the film actually picks up not too long after the events of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter with Tommy Jarvis taken to the same hospital with Jason's body. In an effort to get to Jason, Tommy murders several of the hospital's staff trying to get to the morgue. When he finally gets there, he finds Jason's body rising from the autopsy table. It's at this point that an adult Tommy wakes up in a van on the way to Pinehurst as in the film.

• The producers had originally wanted Corey Feldman to reprise his role as Tommy. But because he was filming The Goonies, Feldman was only available to do a cameo in the movie's opening scene.

• Eddie's death was cut to avoid an X rating; originally blood and his cranial innards spurted out of the straps as Roy twisted them.

• When Lana the waitress is murdered with the axe, the shot of her body quivering was cut to avoid an X rating.

• Originally, Junior's death had his head bounce six times after being decapitated.

• Strangely, the VHS release for the film did not feature the hockey mask worn by Jason or Roy, but rather the mask worn by Lord Hungamungus in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

• Violet's death was originally her getting violently hacked in half, crotch first. The director feared an "X" rating for sure, so it was changed to the much more simplistic death seen in the film.

• Not counting the laughing or yelling, the Tommy Jarvis character only says 24 words throughout the whole movie.

• There are three different hockey masks used either in this film or in it's advertisements. The first is the one that the Jason imposter (Roy) wears. It has a two blue / grey triangles below the eyes. The second is the one the actual Jason wears when Tommy sees him in the hospital room at the end. This has the red "chevron" triangle above the eyes. The third is featured on the poster. It's an entirely different hockey mask, with more breathing holes on it. This one was never used in the film.

• This is the second film in the franchise which the real Jason is not the killer, the first was the original film.