11. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was meant to be the end of the series, obviously, and the movie actually kills off Jason at the end for real. It seemed like a definitive and relatively satisfying way to end the franchise, so it must have been really weird to see Part V hitting theaters the very next year. It's not even like they waited a few years before bringing the franchise back. Nope, the very next year, audiences saw a sequel to the movie called The Final Chapter.
A New Beginning also kind of sticks out like a sore thumb in its own way, though it at least adheres to the Friday formula for the most part. It has its moments and tonally fits in with the rest of the franchise, the ending is what ruins it. As it turns out, we haven’t been watching Jason this whole time: the masked killer was actually a guy named Roy Burns, and Jason is still dead.
Like Halloween III: The Season of the Witch, A New Beginning hoped to take the series in a new direction. Instead of having to keep killing Jason and bringing him back, each Friday the 13th movie would feature a new killer. But A New Beginning, instead of feeling like a fresh new direction to take the franchise in, felt like it was tricking audiences into theaters to see Jason but instead giving them a movie about some generic killer who they don't care about. Naturally, audiences were pissed off to see a Jason movie with no Jason in it, and so he was brought back the very next year. Now, A New Beginning seems like a pointless distraction in a marathon of the series.
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