This is a really fun mystery Thriller that is still very dark & full of creepy atmosphere & i like the fact it's about a copy cat killer, that works really well in showing that Jason Voorhees is such a famous serial killer that other crack pots wanna use his methods & mask to commit their evil crimes. Also franchise favourite Tommy Jarvis is back in this film so he connects this mystery thriller to the friday universe so we know where still in that creepy fun friday Forrest & it all works out very well with fun moments & cool kill scenes so yeah another good film in the franchise

This franchise is becoming more and more meaningless. The fifth part itself may not be so disastrous, but in the context of a franchise it is completely superfluous nonsense. I think this is by far the most unimaginative franchise I've ever seen - if you've seen one you've seen them all. It's not boring, but it's a waste of time in every way.4/10

Presenting the scummiest, vilest Friday of them all - a film packed with more kills (22!), more nudity and more drugs behind the scenes than several of the other films combined!Years after killing off Jason, Tommy Jarvis has nightmares that the man he killed has returned. That's why he's in Pinehurst Halfway House, where Pam Roberts and Dr. Matt Letter (Richard Young, who gives young Indy his fedora in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) are trying to help him to get over his violent past and the death of his mother.But are there a bunch of teens to get killed? Sure there are. There's Reggie, Tommy's roomate whose grandfather George works there as a cook. Plus, we have Robin (Juliette Cummins, Slumber Party Massacre 2), Violet (Tiffany Helm, O.C. & Stiggs, Reform School Girls), Jake, Vic (Suicide from Return of the Living Dead), Joey, Eddie and Tina (Debi Sue Voorhees, no relation). There's also rich neighbors Ethel Hubbard and Junior, who want the halfway house closed down.What follows is a bit of a mystery movie, at least for a bit. Is one of the kids the killer, like Vic, or has Jason come back from the dead? Even the end of the movie leaves that up in the air, to be honest. It's kind of a mess, but along the way there's a ton of blood and gore.Danny Steinmann is the director here, perhaps better known for The Unseen and Savage Streets. Well, maybe not by most people, but by me? Of course. He also broke into movies by directing and writing the adult film High Rise and probably would have created more films in the Friday the 13th saga, but a bicycling accident and long recovery meant that this would be the last film that he would direct. The working title for this film was Repetition. So what happens after this? Well, what do you think?

So does this deserve a 10? No, but it doesn't deserve all those 1's either so I threw it a 10 to help counter that.OK, to address the "elephant in the room" - yeah, the twist at the end is pretty messed up, and yeah, not having it at a lake (well there was small pond) is also a huge change but...I guess for me, while I love Jason and the F13th films, I never took them all that serious, they were just mindless fun: You line up a bunch of dopey teens, show some hooters, and kill them off in crazy ways. This film delivers all that.I had heard there was an idea that Jason's father was going to be revealed as the killer at the end, which to me sounds like it would have been a much better idea and likely may have set better with the fans - maybe. We'll never know.I can certainly sympathize with those who see this film as blasphemy, however to me this film had that same 80's low budge F13th vibe I love, it's a cool memory from my childhood and "Glory Days" of horror (for my generation anyhow) so I still give it a thumbs up.