Friday the 13th: Part V's Jason copycat, the deranged Roy Burns, may have been an effective slasher but his motives make little sense. A New Beginning is the fifth entry in the beloved horror franchise that is infamous for not featuring Jason Voorhees as its lead killer. In a twist that remains controversial to this day, "Jason" is unmasked at the end and revealed to be Burns, a paramedic whose son Joey was killed at the beginning of the story.

The previous entry in the franchise, Friday the 13: The Final Chapter, ended with the seemingly immortal Jason being impaled through the face and apparently killed. Like the film's subtitle implies, the original intent was for Jason to remain dead, and at least for a while, the producers of the franchise kept their word. Part V was an attempt to continue the series while still keeping Jason deceased, so the idea of a Jason copycat killer was created. Of course, this approach wouldn't stick and Jason would soon return in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives.

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For a mere copycat, Roy Burns was insanely successful at not only emulating the Jason killings but actually outdoing him in the body count department. By the end of Part V, Roy had killed more people than either Jason or his mother, Pamela Voorhees, had in each of the previous films. While Burns definitely had what it took to succeed Jason as a slasher, the reasons behind his rampage are entirely nonsensical. His body count may have been high, but he failed to kill the only person whose death would've meant anything to him: Victor Faden, the man who killed his son.

Roy Burns unmasked as the imposter Jason Voorhees in Friday The 13th Part V A New Beginning

Most of Friday the 13th Part V takes place in or around the Pinehurst Halfway House, where a group of disturbed teenagers resides. Among them is a young man named Joey, who makes the tragic mistake of offering a chocolate bar to violence-prone resident Victor. Joey's act is ultimately met with an axe being swung into his back by Vic, a Jason-style attack that kills him instantly. When Joey is taken away, the paramedic who tends to his body is his estranged father Roy. The motivation for his killing spree as the copycat Jason would, therefore, seem to be revenge for his son's murder.

However, this motivation makes no sense considering Roy's actions. For the rest of the sequel, Roy wanders around dressed as Jason killing pretty much anyone who gets in his way; from the halfway house's residents and staff to total strangers, no one is safe from Roy Burns' Jason-inspired rampage. However, despite all the bodies he leaves in his wake, he never seeks out and kills Vic. One would think Faden would be his first (or even only) target, but instead of sneaking into the local jail, Roy instead acts out his revenge on a community of random teens. The reason for this nonsensical motivation was, of course, to give Roy/Jason plenty of teens to slaughter in creative ways; it wouldn't have been much of a slasher movie if "Jason" only killed one guy. However, this adherence to the tried-and-true slasher formula results in Friday the 13: Part V being one of the silliest entries in the franchise.

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