Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Short description
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning continues the story of Tommy Jarvis, the boy who once stopped Jason Voorhees. Now a young man, Tommy is still troubled by what happened at Crystal Lake, and he is sent to a secluded home for teenagers with emotional problems. When people around him begin dying violently, Tommy cannot be sure whether Jason has truly returned or whether he is losing his grip on reality.
The film was directed by Danny Steinmann, his second feature after Savage Streets. The screenplay is credited to Martin Kitrosser, Steinmann and David Cohen, with Timothy Silver producing. John Shepherd plays Tommy, alongside Melanie Kinnaman, Tiffany Helm, John Robert Dixon, Juliette Cummins and Richard Young among a credited cast of 36. It was made for about 2 million dollars and took roughly 22 million worldwide, a strong return for a modestly budgeted horror release.
Audience reactions have been mixed. On IMDb the film holds a rating of 4.8 from around 49,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 5.3 from 1,341 votes. A critics' rating of 3.8 from 26 reviews places it in similar territory, so the film has not been warmly received by either critics or audiences, though it remains part of the long-running series.
What's left behind the scenes
- Actress Melanie Kinnaman and director Danny Steinmann did not get along during the making of the film. Kinnaman claims Steinmann was a hostile and inaccessible director.
- A month before the film's release in the US, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) demanded that 16 scenes depicting sexual or graphic violence be edited to earn an “R” rating instead of an “X.” The film required nine “visits” to the MPAA before receiving an “R” rating.
- Debby Sue Woorhees was later fired from teaching positions at two middle schools when students discovered her nude scene in this film.
- Coincidentally, Debbie Sue Wuerch shares her real last name with Jason.
- The film takes place in 1989.
- Originally, the sex scene with Debi Sue Wuerth was much longer, but film producer Frank Mancuso Jr. ordered editor Bruce Green to shorten it and make it look “like a Pepsi commercial.”
- Mark Venturini was considered for the role of Tommy.
- John Shepherd researched the role of Tommy by working in a psychiatric hospital.
- Mark Venturini and Miguel A. Núñez Jr. starred in another horror film released in the same year, 1985 – "Return of the Living Dead".
- John Shepherd wore cowboy boots to appear taller.
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