Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) (USA)

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Jason may be dead and gone (yeah, sure) but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t money to be made. The kid that ended his life, Tommy Doyle, is now a mid-thirties-looking teenager (at least I think he’s supposed to be a teen) and mentally disturbed. He’s the new resident at a halfway house whose mission is to get him ready for the outside world. When an anger-prone inhabitant of said place brutally murders an annoying roommate, things steadily go from bad to worse. It seems that old hockey masked son of a bitch is back and is just as efficient in wiping out under developed characters as he ever was. The mystery is set up to get the audience asking if Jason has returned or question if maybe Tommy has donned the goalie mask but that’s all bullshit because it basically tells you who the killer is in the very scene they introduce him. Random folks wander into the picture (a couple of 80’s greasers, some backwoods ma and son combo and an ambulance driver with a horny waitress girlfriend and a cocaine addiction) to fill out the body count. This surely would have been the dregs if it weren’t for some interesting touches. First there’s punky new-wave girl Violet who blesses us with some sweet dance moves which would make any person swoon before her uncalled for death. There’s also the older brother of a young kid whose grandpa works at the place named Demon who dresses like Thriller-era Michael Jackson, lives in his van and gets some nasty diarrhea from car-cooked enchiladas. The insanely cute Robin who doesn’t do much of anything and the usual violence which cuts away at the right time, making you believe you’ve seen more than you actually have. Like I said, the identity of the killer is given away right off the bat but if you were coming into a F13 sequel anticipating a mystery, well, you’re doing it wrong. There’s enough oddball touches injected into this standard slasher fare to make it an enjoyable time. I can’t stress this enough: stay away from anything cooked in a car.