Friday the 13th: A New Beginning a fucking porno in the woods there. You wouldn't believe the nudity they cut out." According to the DVD box set "Friday the 13th: Return to Crystal Lake", Corey Feldman was only able to make a cameo appearance in the film as a result of his involvement as an actor in "The Goonies", which was released the same year as "A New Beginning". Feldman filmed the inserts of his cameo on a Sunday, as that was his off day of shooting his other film, and the footage was shot in the backyard of his family's home in Los Angeles with
Friday the 13th (1980 film) "silly, boring, youth-geared horror movie," though she praised Manfredini's "nervous musical score," the cinematography, as well as the performances, which she deemed "natural and appealing," particularly from Taylor, Bacon, Nelson, and Bartram. "Variety", however, deemed the film "low budget in the worst sense—with no apparent talent or intelligence to offset its technical inadequacies—"Friday the 13th" has nothing to exploit but its title." "The Miami News"s Bill von Maurer praised Cunningham's "low-key" direction, but noted: "After building terrific suspense and turning over the audience's stomachs, he doesn't quite know where to go from there. The movie begins to sag in the