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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
MEANRANK
41/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5764
- IMDb #5660
- Google retired #3506
- Rotten Tomatoes #5060
- Metacritic #5046
- Letterboxd #5522
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5379
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5031
- Metacritic Audience #4448
- Kinopoisk #5435
- AlloCiné #5463
- Trakt #5101
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 12, highest is Google on 66. Critics average 14, everyone else 48.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Years after the events at Camp Crystal Lake, a now-teenage Tommy Jarvis is living in a secluded halfway house. When a series of murders bearing Jason Voorhees' signature begins again, suspicion falls on the traumatized Tommy. The residents of the house are stalked by the iconic killer, or someone imitating him.
Details
- Director
- Danny Steinmann
- Writers
- Danny Steinmann, David Cohen, John Shepherd, Martin Kitrosser
- Released
- 22 March 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.2M
- Box office
- $21.9M
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Cast
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