Forty years ago the 'Friday the 13th' franchise took a creative detour with its fifth installment and it remains its most interesting sequel to date.

Mike P. Nelson is set to direct a new Friday the 13th short. Here’s what we know.

From Danny Steinmann, a director of early Seventies soft core porn, comes an entry into the Friday franchise that’s just as sleazy as it is fun — Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning!

Okay, so FRIDAY THE 13th PART V: A NEW BEGINNING is hardly a subtle, and tasteful work of sophisticated cinematic art, but it is so incredibly crass, coarse, and unapologetically trashy that it’s ...

Carol Locatell, ‘Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning’ Actress, Dies at 82. The theater veteran did lots of Neil Simon on stages across the country and appeared in three films with Burt ...

Felsher talks about the problem as well: “The Friday The 13th series became a whipping boy, and from part five to part eight, sequences are just gone. I think they missed the point.

But so many years later, Friday the 13th Part 2 feels almost like its own scrappy reboot. Jesse Hassenger ( @rockmarooned ) is a writer living in Brooklyn. He’s a regular contributor to The A.V ...

Actress Carol Locatell, who played a fiery, short-tempered mother in “Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning,” died on April 11. She was 82. Locatell died at her home in Sherman Oaks ...

Carol Locatell, who played hilariously short-tempered and foul-mouthed neighbor Ethel Hubbard in 1985’s "Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning," has died. The actress was 82 years old.

Carol Locatell, who had a memorable turn as the foulmouthed mother Ethel Hubbard in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and worked alongside Burt Reynolds in three films, has died. She was 82.