Martin Kitroser once again takes up his pen in service of the Friday the 13th series, and the result is a film even dumber than his previous Friday the 13th Part III. We really shouldn’t blame him too specifically, though — he had no fewer than three accomplices to the crime that is this movie’s screenplay. It never ceases to amaze me that an entire platoon of writers can be put to work on a script and still come up with something as wretched as Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. I mean, you’d think that even if all of them were incompetent ass-trolls, they’d be incompetent in different directions and catch each other’s most egregious slip-ups, giving rise to colorless mediocrity rather than any sort of really aggressive badness. Apparently that’s not how it works, though, and the greatest critical challenge presented by this movie is trying to figure out where to begin tearing it to pieces.
— Scott "El Santo" Ashlin, 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting
"Two people in a room can get more done than a hundred."
"The intelligence quotient of any meeting can be determined by starting with 100 and subtracting 5 points for each participant."
