8 Worst Slasher Horror Movie Fakeout Endings

For your humble scribe, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning is a pretty fun entry in the F13 series, but the reality is that such an opinion is only shared by a minority of this iconic franchise's fanbase.

It's not hard to understand why the big fakeout here left horror hounds frustrated, for A New Beginning's climax revealed that the hockey mask-adorned killer of the picture was not Jason Voorhees.

While Jason had been brutally beaten to death by young Tommy Jarvis at the close of prior entry The Final Chapter, it's not like 'death' had ever stopped Voorhees or countless other villains from returning to action in plentiful other movies. As such, upon a first watch, it was taken as a given that the hulking, murderous sort at the centre of this fifth Friday the 13th offering was clearly Jason Voorhees.

Rather than Jason, the man behind the mask in A New Beginning was Roy Burns, a steely-eyed paramedic briefly seen in the film's opening act as he had to collect the dead body of who we'd come to learn was his son. As a result of that trauma, Roy had embarked on his own copycat killing spree... which certainly split opinion amongst the Friday the 13th faithful.