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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a slasher film. It was released on March 22, 1985. It is the fifth film in the Friday the 13th film series. In spite of the fact that the previous film claimed 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.

Plot synopsis

Twelve year-old Tommy Jarvis, who killed Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
, walks through the woods in the pouring rain to visit Jason's tombstone. He hides when two young men arrive and begin to dig up Jason's grave. They open the coffin to find Jason's not dead, and he was apparently buried with weapons. Jason senses Tommy watching, and pursues him. But it was just a dream.

Tommy (John Shepherd), now fifteen, awakes from the nightmare in a van from the Unger Institute of Mental Health. He's dropped off by the attendant, Billy, at Pinehurst, a halfway home for troubled teens, and meets Pam Roberts (Melanie Kinnaman), the assistant director, and Dr. Matthew Letter (Richard Young). 'Matt' and Pam explain that Pinehurst is run on an honor system, since the intent is to help teens like Tommy reenter society. Tommy then meets "Reggie the Reckless" (Shavar Ross), the grandson of George (Vernon Washington), who works at the house. Sheriff Tucker and his deputy return Pinehurst residents Eddie and Tina (Debi Sue Voorhees) after they're caught trespassing on the land of Ethel Hubbard (Carol Locatell) and her buffoonish son "Junior," whose property is next door. The foul-mouthed Ethel and Junior (Ron Sloan) arrive and Ethel threatens to shoot the next Pinehurst resident on her property.

We then meet several more Pinehurst residents, a Forrest Gump-like Joey (Dominick Brascia), punk Violet (Tiffany Helm) who's always listening to headphones, red-head Robin (Juliette Cummins), and Vic (Mark Venturini) who appears to be taking anger issues out on the wood he's chopping. Joey pesters Vic until he snaps & kills Joey with the axe. Vic is arrested by Sheriff Tucker (Marco St. John), and ambulance attendants Duke Johnson and Roy Burns (Dick Wieand) come to take away Joey's body.

That night, Pete (Corey Parker) and Vinnie (Anthony Barrile), some young Fonzie-wannabes, have their car break down near Pinehurst. They are killed creatively by an unseen assailant. Tommy has another hallucination of Jason the next morning, and at breakfast he loses control and beats up Eddie (John Robert Dixon) when Eddie scares him with one of Tommy's own masks. A drifter, Raymond, shows up at Ethel and Junior's house looking to work for food. Night arrives, and when the attendant, Billy (Bob DeSimone), goes to pick up a waitress, Lana (Rebecca Wood), for a date, and they are murdered by an unseen axe-wielding assailant.

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