- The film was originally written to have Corey Feldman as the star, reprising the role of Tommy Jarvis. However, he was already working on The Goonies (1985), so the script was rewritten to have Feldman's appearance limited to a cameo.
- The scene in which Pam attacks Jason with the chainsaw was shot on Halloween night in 1984.
- "Victor Faden" can be seen written on the outhouse wall behind Demon. This is the name of the mental patient who hacked Joey to death and was taken away by the police. Many believe this was put there to insinuate the possibility that Victor had escaped and is committing more murders.
- The movie that Jake and Robin watch on the bed is A Place in the Sun (1951).
- There is a small black and white photo of 'John Lennon' hanging up behind Dr. Matt Leonard's head in the first scene of them together in his office
- Tommy's opening dream was different in the original script, and arguably made him seem more of a suspect later on. It opens as more of a continuation from the ending of the previous film - The Final Chapter - as a young Tommy is taken to the same hospital as Jason's corpse. Then, in a sudden fit of psychotic rage, young Tommy winds up attacking half the hospital staff trying to get to the morgue and finding Jason's bloodied body. Once he had finally found the body, Jason suddenly rises from the autopsy table. Immediately after this, the adult Tommy wakes up in the van en route to the Pinehurst house.
- Not counting the laughing or yelling, the Tommy Jarvis character only says 24 words throughout the whole movie.
- One month prior to the film's release in the U.S., the Motion Picture Association of America demanded that 16 scenes featuring sex or graphic violence be edited in order to merit an "R" rating instead of an "X" rating. The film ultimately required nine trips to the MPAA before being granted an "R" rating.
- To keep the storyline a secret, the film was originally called "Repetition", after the David Bowie song of the same name. Several of the other Friday the 13th films have used Bowie songs as fake titles.
- Although actor Dick Wieand is credited for the part of 'Roy/Jason Voorhees', it was actually stuntman Tom Morga who did the scenes of the impostor Jason wearing the mask and of the real Jason, the hallucination haunting Tommy.
- There are three different hockey masks featured in this film. The first is the one that the Jason imposter (Roy) wears. It has a two blue stripes on either side of the mouth. The second is the one the actual Jason wears when Tommy sees him in the hospital room at the end. This has the one red triangle above the eyes. The third is featured on the poster. It's an entirely different hockey mask, with more breathing holes on it. This one was never used in the film.
- This is the second movie of the series in which Jason Voorhees is not the killer.
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- SPOILER: As the first Friday the 13th (1980) movie had it's controversial soundtrack noise "mo-mo-mo-mo ki-ki-ki-ki" meaning "mom kill", in the final hospital scene you can hear "to-to-to-to ki-ki-ki-ki", this time meaning "Tommy kill".
- SPOILER: The movie's title "A New Beginning" was chosen because it was intended for Tommy Jarvis to become the killer in the next movie. According to interviews with Danny Steinmann, Steinmann was instructed to do two things on Friday the 13th: part V. He was to deliver a shock, scare, or kill every seven or eight minutes. Most importantly, he was to turn Tommy into Jason. Apparently the ending with Tommy about to kill Pam was not meant to be interpreted as a dream but was suppose to be Tommy gone crazy about his encounter with the fake Jason. However this plot twist was abandoned when fans of the franchise wanted Jason back so he was resurrected in the sequel. Had the movie gone down well with fans of the franchise than the producers would have brought back John Shepherd and Melanie Kinnaman for a direct sequel.
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