Thirteen Facts About Friday The 13th Part V - A New Beginning: 1. Heading the Reel EFX make-up effects team for this sequel was none other than David Miller, who had previously designed Fred Krueger's facial features in the preceding year's A Nightmare On Elm Street. 2. Initially, Corey Feldman was asked to reprise his role as Tommy Jarvis, but since he was busy shooting The Goonies, the character was re-written to be a few years older, and John Shepherd was cast. Feldman did appear in a brief cameo during the opening dream sequence. 3. The aforementioned dream sequence was not in the original script. Director Danny Steinmann wrote it and shot it specifically to bridge this film with its predecessor. 4. The track heard during Violet's murder scene is "His Eyes" by Australian new wave group Pseudo Echo. Two years later the group would break into the U.S. Top Ten with their remake of Lipps Inc.'s "Funkytown." 5. Originally, Jake's (Jerry Pavlon) murder was onscreen. However, dissatisfaction with the latex head (designed for the cleaver strike) led to the shot's excision. 6. The character Tina was played by Debisue Voorhees, the only instance (thus far) whereby a Friday The 13th actor or actress has shared Jason's last name. 7. Actor Dick Wieand, who played the murderous Jason impostor Roy Burns, took the role only for the money and later became so tired of being associated with the role that he declined an interview with Fangoria magazine for a major retrospective piece on all the actors who've played Jason. 8. As cinematic shorthand to tip off the knowledgable Friday The 13th fan that the killer here was not the true Jason Voorhees, the stripes on the hockey mask are the wrong size and the wrong color. 9. The decapitation of Junior (Ron Sloan) was originally onscreen but had to be cut in order to secure an R-rated. 10. There are severe continuity errors during Roy's pursuit of Pam (Melanie Kinnaman) through the woods near the end of the film, whereby Pam's sweater is draped on her shoulders in some shots and then missing in others. 11. Critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert chose to review this film on a special anti-sequel edition of their syndicated television show which also badmouthed then-current releases Missing In Action II: The Beginning, Police Academy II: Their First Assignment and Porky's Revenge. Ebert noted within the first minute of the broadcast, "Isn't it funny that the show has only started, and we already know that we don't like any of these movies?" The late Siskel's response: "If we didn't know in advance that we wouldn't like them, then we would have to be from different planets." 12. The original poster design, which featured a silhouette of a machete-wielding Tommy Jarvis standing against an image of the hockey mask, was inexplicably replaced for the 1985 domestic VHS slipcover with an image of a hockey mask that looks nothing like the one from the movie--and without Tommy. 13. The box-office take for Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning was $21.3 million. << Back