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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning1985

Name: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Genre: Slasher, Psychological, Splatter & Gore, Survival
Released: 1985-03-22
Rating: 4.3

“If Jason still haunts you... You're not alone.”

Directed by Danny Steinmann

4.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 4.8Rotten Tomatoes 15%Metacritic 16TMDB 5.3

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Year

1985

Runtime

92 min

Box Office

Budget

$2,200,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$21,930,715

Domestic

$21,930,418

🏆 2 nominations total

The premise

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters.

Horror Vault's take

Years after the horrors of Crystal Lake, a now-teenage Tommy Jarvis is still struggling to hold himself together at a remote halfway house for troubled youth. When a savage killing spree tears through the facility and surrounding woods, Tommy — and everyone around him — must confront whether the terror he's spent years trying to escape has truly followed him. The film leans into questions of psychology and paranoia alongside its relentless body count, making the mystery of who or what is behind the carnage as unsettling as the kills themselves. New Jersey's backwoods provide a claustrophobic backdrop for one of the franchise's most divisive and blood-soaked entries.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Jump Scares, Depictions Of Mental Illness, Sadistic On-Screen Kills