Jason, he of the hockey mask and various sharp instruments, was dead, having been on the receiving end of a machete beat down. Sadly part four turned a tidy profit so Paramount had no choice but to bring the man behind the mask back...or did they?
Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) is running through the woods during a thunderstorm. He stops when he finds a crude grave marker. 'Jason Voorhees' is the grave's sole occupant. Things take a turn for the worse when two teens decide to dig him up. This annoys our masked antagonist, who quickly dispatches them...before turning his attention to little Tommy.
Thankfully the above was just a dream sequence. Tommy (John Shepard) wakes with a start on a van to his new home. It has been six years since that fateful night (so this takes place in 1990?) and Tommy is now a ward of the Pinehurst Youth Leadership Center.
The Center's leader, Dr. Matthew Lederer (Richard Young), hopes Tommy's stint will be more fruitful, as his previous stays in various mental health intuitions have been non productive at best. Pinehurst promises to have more action, although not in the way anyone intended. Within hours of Tommy's arrival, Sherriff Tucker (Marco St. John) pulls up with two Pinehurst inmates in tow. The nymphomaniac duo of Tina (Debisue Voorhees) and Eddie (John Robert Dixon) skipped off to indulge in their favorite pastime, sadly they opted to fornicate on the property of local redneck Ethel Hubbard (Carol Locatel), who follows the sheriff alongside her dim-witted son Junior (Ron Sloan).
The excitement continues though, as compulsive eater Joey (Dominick Brascia) makes the fatal mistake of annoying Vinnie (Anthony Barrile) by being around him. Vinnie expresses his anger by helping Joey loses some pounds...via an axe.
The arriving paramedics, Duke (Caskey Swaim) and Roy Burns (Dick Wieand) take Joey's remains away, although Roy seems pretty upset by the scene. Duke, on the other hand, wants to write the whole thing off as a prank that got out of hand.
Later that night, two punks have some car trouble that proves fatal when a masked man springs out of the woods and kill them both. The next night another couple is slain, which is enough to make the sheriff believe that Jason has come back.
Tina and Eddie decide to press their luck and sneak out to the woods again. An unseen assailant takes them both out via garden sheers and a leather strap around the eyes respectively. When Tina and Eddie fail to come back, a search party is formed, although Tommy is busy fighting with Junior and thus runs off into the woods, making him miss Jason's on screen debut, although his mask is a little different. He dispatches the rest of the cast with ease. Can Tommy stop him again?
The only thing this entry has going for it is the body count. Twenty-two victims, beating out all four previous films. The motivations make no sense. Why is 'Jason' targeting these particular people? The quotation marks are there as the film tries for a sense of subtly on Jason's being real or an imposter, although if you think about for a minute the whole thing crumbles.
Honestly the whole thing just feels lazy. A woman flashes the camera when she changes her shirt, people have sex/drugs then die, a car scares people; everything here just feels like someone watched a lot of slashers and thought "oh, we have to have that because the other films did".
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