IMDb Synopsis: Still traumatized by his past, Tommy Jarvis—who killed Jason Voorhees as a child—is sent to a remote halfway house in the countryside. When a young man is murdered, Tommy finds himself caught in a terrifying wave of brutal killings.
With a 18% Tomatometer score, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning ranks among the franchise’s lowest-rated entries. It joins Jason Goes to Hell (16%), Jason Takes Manhattan (11%), and Friday the 13th Part III (7%) near the bottom of the series’ critical rankings.
Fun Fact: Cory Feldman reportedly wanted to appear in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning rather than take a role in a then-little-known film called The Goonies.
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“Unfortunately, Spielberg fucked up all our plans, because he decided he wanted me in a couple of films,” Feldman says in Crystal Lake Memories. “I was forced, quite begrudgingly, to participate in a little film called Goonies, and not participate, as I would have liked, in the full version of Friday the 13th Part 5.”
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