with the lower two pointing upward. Music On January 13, 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 6-CD boxset containing Harry Manfredini's scores from the first six Friday the 13th films. It sold out in less than 24 hours. Release Home media Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was released on LaserDisc, Betamax, VHS, and CED in 1986, and reissued on VHS in 1994 by Paramount Home Video. Paramount released it in the United States on DVD on September 25, 2001. In 2009, Paramount reissued its Friday the 13th films on DVD in "Deluxe Editions", reissuing A New Beginning on June 16, 2009. This release featured several newly commissioned bonus materials, including an audio commentary and interviews with the cast and crew. Paramount and Warner Brothers co-released the Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Blu-ray box set on September 13, 2013, featuring each of the twelve films; this marked the first Blu-ray release of A New Beginning. Paramount and Warner reissued the film as a standalone double-feature Blu-ray paired with Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives in 2014. Paramount re-released the film in another box set titled, Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection in February 2018; the box set features only the first eight films of the franchise. Reception Box office Friday the 13th: A New Beginning opened on March 22, 1985, on 1,759 screens. The film debuted at number 1 on its opening weekend with a gross of $8,032,883, beating the teen sex comedy sequel Porky's Revenge, the biopic Mask, Berry Gordy's martial-arts action musical The Last Dragon and the Disney dinosaur fantasy Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. By the end of its theatrical run, the film earned $22 million at the US box office, placing it at number 41 on the list of 1985's top box office earners. The film faced competition throughout the first half of the year against horror releases Cat's Eye and Lifeforce. Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning holds an approval rating of 18% based on 22 reviews and an average rating of 3.7/10. On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 16 out of 100 based on eight critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune criticized the film for a perceived lack of originality and said there "is little suspense". Variety wrote that it has "even less