After supposedly offing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (having little Corey Feldman take a machete to the unstoppable killing machine was crazy work), the folks behind the slasher-movie franchise came back a year later with Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, a 1985 murder mystery that gives another psycho an opportunity to put on the mask and get to slicin’! This time around, the kid who hacked up Jason is now a tormented teen (John Shepherd) living in a halfway house full of horny, ready-to-be-mutilated youngsters. Sure enough, people start getting killed in myriad gruesome ways, making audiences wonder who is actually committing these Jason-like murders. Porn-director-turned-exploitation-helmer Danny Steinmann spends his final directorial effort piling up the bodies and the boobs. Local filmmaker Wolfe MacReady will be on hand to introduce a Friday the 13th installment that’s certainly not the best — but it’s definitely the skeeviest.
Midnight at the Belcourt
2102 Belcourt Ave.
