Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Plot[edit | edit source] Five years after killing mass murderer Jason Voorhees, a teenage Tommy Jarvis is tormented by nightmares of him, resulting in his internment in numerous psychiatric hospitals. He is eventually transferred to the Pinehurst Halfway House, managed by Dr. Matt Letter and his assistant Pam Roberts. There, Tommy meets a circle of other teens, including lovers Eddie and Tina, the stutterer Jake, punk Violet, the serious Robin, the compulsive eater Joey, and the young Reggie, whose grandfather George works as the facility's cook. The group is disliked by their foul-mouthed neighbor, Ethel, as Eddie and Tina habitually engage in sexual intercourse on her property. For this reason, Matt forbids the group from venturing outside the facility's premises. Vic, a violent-tempered patient who hates being in the institute, is gripped by a fit of madness caused by Joey's impertinence and brutally kills him with an axe. This leads to his arrest by the cops while the paramedics take the corpse of Joey. That evening, two greasers, Vinnie and Pete, are murdered by an unseen assailant after their car breaks down, and Lana, a diner waitress and her boyfriend Billy are killed the following night. Local Sheriff Cal Tucker theorizes that Jason Voorhees has come back to life and is the perpetrator of these murders, while suspicion is cast on Tommy. The next morning, Eddie and Tina go into the forest and have sex while smoking cannabis. They are watched by Ethel's farmhand who is killed soon after. After returning from washing off in the pond, Eddie finds Tina murdered, and he soon meets the same fate. Meanwhile, Reggie begs George to let him visit his brother Demon, who has just returned to town, and Pam offers to accompany him while bringing Tommy along. Tommy meets Ethel's son Junior and gets into a fight with him, but then runs away into the forest after realizing his actions. After Pam and Reggie leave to find Tommy, Demon and his girlfriend are slaughtered. Upon Pam and Reggie's return to the institute, they are told of Matt's and George's disappearances. Pam searches for them, entrusting Reggie to Violet, Jake, and Robin. Ethel and Junior are killed, as are Jake, Robin, and Violet after Reggie falls asleep. Reggie awakens just as Pam returns, and they discover corpses in Tommy's room. Moments later, Jason Voorhees, apparently resurrected, bursts into the house. After a long chase in which Pam and Reggie find the corpses of paramedic Duke, Matt, and George, Jason is struck by a tractor driven by Reggie and lured into a barn. Tommy returns and is attacked by Jason. He defends himself but is knocked unconscious after being helped to the loft of the barn. Pam and Reggie set a trap and kick Jason from the loft window, but he holds on and grabs Reggie. During the commotion, Tommy regains consciousness, grabs Jason's machete, cuts his hand off, and Jason falls from the loft window onto a tractor harrow, which kills him instantly. The killer's hockey mask comes off, revealing that "Jason" was Roy Burns, one of the paramedics who arrived at the scene of Joey's murder. Sheriff Tucker later identifies Roy as Joey's father and determines that he went insane after his son's death and sought revenge. While recovering in the hospital, Tommy has another hallucination of Jason, but he faces his fears and makes him disappear. He then hears Pam approaching and smashes the window to appear as though he has escaped. When Pam rushes in, Tommy appears behind the door wearing Roy's hockey mask and wielding a kitchen knife.