Vendredi 13, chapitre V : Une nouvelle terreur

This is the best Jason to watch drunk, it's almost like a Friday the 13th blooper reel. I love the singing on the crapper part, the mod chick doing the robot, the "just wanna earn a meal" guy, Crazy Ethel and Junior, Billy and Llana, that kid from Diff'rent Strokes, the stupid arse ending, and the excessive nudity.

It's a time capsule of sorts, it captures all the bad 80's slasher films in a hour and a half. Bad acting? GOT IT! Ridiculous costumes? GOT IT! Lot's of big haired women topless? GOT IT! No name stars obviously coked out of they're mind? OH THIS MOVIE HAS GOT PLENTY OF THAT! Watch it and laugh, preferably with some friends

I can already start by saying that this is just another film in this franchise. He is not the worst of the entire saga, but he is of such a low level of quality that he almost causes you depression. All the dumb choices that are made during this movie irritate in an inexplicable way. The worst part of the whole movie is in the characters, where in addition to being uninteresting, they are very forced. The actors manage to be so insufferable playing the characters that you get annoyed with them all. The way they try to act crazy becomes comical, but not in a way that makes you laugh, a humor you'd rather pierce your own eyes with than rewatch those scenes. Don't watch this movie if you're having a good day, it could ruin your day.

That wily rascal Jason Voorhees is at it again....or is he? Yes, this is the installment in the interminable "Friday the 13th" series that thought it would be a good idea to do without its only reason for existence...the hockey-masked Jason. Though you hardly notice the loss, since you don't KNOW it's not Jason until the film's final moments, and the copycat killer dresses like Jason anyway, so what's the difference? If you've seen one axe-wielding psycho in a hockey mask, you've seen them all.

Actually, I kind of like this entry. It provides the best nudity of the series....no fewer than three gratuitous boob shots, and nice boobs they are. And it's funny, sometimes intentionally so, as when the hillbilly mom calls her dufus son a dildo, sometimes unintentionally, as when the Michael Jackson look alike sings a duet with his girlfriend through an outhouse wall while he's on the crapper.

And the filmmakers outdo themselves with the body count this time around. By the end of the movie, there's no longer time to show them being killed off. Characters you've completely forgotten about just pop up as dead bodies. But what do you expect with all that plot to get through? Compared to the other films in the series, this is practically "War and Peace," what with the murder mystery story and the Tommy Jarvis plot line, which attempts to add a sense of continuity to the middle batch of movies (o.k. so Part 6 picks up Tommy's storyline in a completely different place and with a different actor, but for a series like this that's the best you can hope for in the way of consistency).

Grade: C

I honestly wish they would've ended this series after the 4th installment, which was a pretty good note to end on. However, studios are money hungry in Hollywood, and they wanted to continue to cash in on the horror craze that was still in full swing in the 80's. In order to put some life into an aging series they decided to do something different with the 5th installment of this series. For the most part this works and in my opinon it works a hell of a lot better than the zombie jason featured in 6-10.

I honestly don't know why fans hate this entry so much. It's slightly and i do mean slightly more original than most of the sequels in the series and they had to do something fresh to make the series interesting again. This is an interesting shift and i appreciate the attempt to make something different.

In that aspect i appreciate the film and it's probably the last Friday the 13th film i liked for more than its making fun of it value. However, in the end this is more of the same. Bad acting, characters just in it to be killed, and the same stalk/chase scenes to be presented in all films of this sort. The only thing original about the film is the concept, and that's about it.

The only performance worth mentioning is the lead. His acting goes beyond that of a horror film. He should be in better movies, not in something like this. Other than this performance all the rest are just there for the kill and bring nothing interesting to there characters. The setting in the institution is a nice touch but it's handled so unrealisticly that it becomes hilarious to watch. Jason is a bit of a threat in this film only because the new direction the character takes in this film.

I appreciate this film for the new idea alone. I think the filmmakers knew what they had to do to make something after a 4th film called THE FINAL CHAPTER. The same slasher antics are used which prevent the film from becoming a really good horror film but it wasn't a bad way to waste 90 minutes, unlike the next sequels that followed it.

Young Tommy, the kid who defeated Jason in The Final Chapter, has grown into a troubled young man who is haunted by nightmares and visions of his nemesis. His arrival at a home for troubled teens coincides with the start of a series of bloody murders which suggest that he might have somehow inherited Jason's bloodlust. There are so many characters in this edition of the long-running horror franchise that director Danny Steinmann doesn't even get time to show all their murders on screen, and the rate at which the bodies pile up becomes a little farcical by the final reel.