Danny Steinmann	...	(Director)
Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen	...	(Writer)
John Shepherd	...
Melanie Kinnaman	...	Pam
Shavar Ross	...
Richard Young	...
Corey Feldman	...	Tommy at 12
Anthony Barrile	...	Vinnie
Suzanne Bateman	...	Nurse Yates
Dominick Brascia	...	Joey
Todd Bryant	...	Neil
Curtis Conaway	...	Les
Juliette Cummins	...	Robin
Bob DeSimone	...	Billy / Male Nurse (as Bob De Simone)
John Robert Dixon	...	Eddie
Jere Fields	...	Anita (as Jeré Fields)
Tiffany Helm	...	Violet
Richard Lineback	...	Deputy Dodd
Carol Locatell	...	Ethel
Ric Mancini	...	Mayor Cobb

Comments: If Jason still haunts you, you're not alone!

Summary: Friday the 13th Part 5, like Halloween 3, has a bad reputation for the most mindless of reasons - the fact that it doesn't feature the same star of the previous films in the bogeyman role. Despite being Jason Voorhees free however, this is actually a decent script, one that pushes the series on while firmly sticking to the continuity of the previous films. The basic premise is that Tommy - the young boy who finally managed to kill Jason at the end of Part 4 - has grown up mentally disturbed, and when bodies start pilling up again it's not obvious if there's a new copycat killer out there or if Tommy is doing the killings himself. For the first time since Friday the 13th Part 2 the script is attempting to add a new spin onto the increasingly formulaic teen campers/stalk n' slash routine, something which is to be applauded. Unfortunate then that this turns out to be another disappointing sequel.
Firstly the acting is pretty dire (the lead character excepted) with half of the cast attempting to play their roles as comedy: the bungling policemen are bad enough, but the comedy 'good ol' boy' and his mother are possibly the most noxious couple to ever appear in ANY film (how I cheered when they died). The film has also dated very badly thanks to it's 80's fashions, the scenes of a Michael Jackson wanabee singing to his girlfriend and a mini-Madonna doing an extended robotic dance in her bedroom are two particularly cringe worthy moments. The action scenes are reasonable, but it's very hard to care about any of this collection of the soon-to-be-dead, and the moment when one is saved by a 12-year old driving a mechanical digger explosively through the door of a barn is pure cheese.
Friday the 13th Part 5 has some nice ideas, and the twist ending is great, but the execution is incredibly sloppy. After this bungled re-birth the series would look toward re-animating it's main man to get back on track...