This is one of twoFriday the 13th films that I remembered best. It must have played on TV a lot at a crucial time when I was growing up. Despite how stupid this movie is, it scared a great deal as a child.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
With the fourth Fridaythe 13th sequel Paramount attempted to take the series in a new
direction by having the killer be someone other than Jason. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
picks up with a traumatized Tommy Jarvis (the boy who did Jason in at the end
of Friday the 13th: TheFinal Chapter) looking for Jason’s grave and finding two boys there to dig
him up. The sequence turns out to be Tommy’s nightmare. He’s been sent to an
alternative psychiatric center run by a caring and understanding doctor who
treats troubled teens in a communal farm setting.
