Unfortunately, no matter how clever-clever the all-new screenplay might (occasionally) be at acknowledging the faults of the original, this does not make them magically go away.
Friday the 13th (2009)
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Reviews Counted:157
Fresh:40
Rotten:117
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Though technically well-constructed, Friday the 13th is a series rehash that features little to distinguish it from its predecessors.
Rated: 18 [See Full Rating] for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:13-02-2009
Synopsis: Following his remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, director Marcus Nispel tackles 1980's slasher favorite to bring unstoppable killing machine Jason Voorhees to a new generation of gorehounds.... Following his remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, director Marcus Nispel tackles 1980's slasher favorite to bring unstoppable killing machine Jason Voorhees to a new generation of gorehounds. Lasting 10 films and going to any length (including New York City and outer space) to provide Jason with fresh meat, the FRIDAY THE 13th series was always about inventive death scenes. Nispel streamlines the events of the original (where Jason’s mother was the killer) into an extended prologue before providing an original story in which Jason begins his killing spree and finds his iconic mask. Decades after the death of Jason's mother, a group of twentysomethings descends on the backwoods town near abandoned Camp Crystal Lake in search of a rumored marijuana crop. Whitney Miller (Amanda Righetti) finds the old Voorhees house and discovers a locket revealing that she resembles Jason’s mother. Jason (Derek Mears) arrives and, thinking she is his mother reincarnated, holds Whitney captive. Weeks later, Trent (Travis Van Winkle) and his friends arrive to stay at his father’s vacation home, while Clay (Jared Padalecki) shows up to look for his missing sister Whitney. Meanwhile, Jason finds a hockey mask to cover his startling face and begins to satisfy his bloodlust with the hard-partying new arrivals. Working once again with producer Michael Bay, Nispel crafts a FRIDAY "reboot" that is slick and well-made, giving audiences exactly what they expect from the franchise: blood and breasts in equal measure. With knowing humor, he plunges directly into the saga, leaving the titles until 15 minutes into the film, at which point Jason has already dispatched several victims. After that, there is topless waterskiing and death by a wealth of means, all of which will have fans glad to have Jason back from outer space. [More]
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears
Director: Marcus Nispel
Director: Marcus Nispel
Screenwriter: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Producer: Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Sean Cunningham
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Friday the 13th
This is a desperately anodyne horror movie with all the flavour of soggy lettuce.
One thing this latest rehash — No 11, by my count — does achieve, is make the original look like a frickin’ masterpiece.
Unlucky for almost everyone. It’s a sad day when a Friday the 13th remake is shown up by a My Bloody Valentine remake – couldn’t they at least have sprung for 3-D?
This “reimagining”, by the director Marcus Nispel, of the 1980 slasher movie is one hell of a bore.
The film, an endless succession of strippings, slashings and skewerings, looks as if the production team had learnt their art doing work experience under the influence of drugs at an abattoir next door to a nudist camp.
Such is the one-dimensional nature of the slabs of meat masquerading as characters that it’s hard to care for their fates, and a painfully contrived romantic intrigue between two of them hardly helps the cause.
Unlucky for one and all. This dismal horror franchise-remake returns us to Camp Crystal Lake.
He runs, he stumbles… Jason’s newest beginning is satisfyingly sick but far too slick, Nispel jettisoning grubby, home-movie visuals – and with them all tension – in favour of really lustrous leaves. Disappointing.
There's no need to look beyond Friday The 13th as the year's most rancid remake.
Among exceedingly stiff competition, this may well be the worst Friday ever. Hear that squelching noise? It's little Jason spinning in his watery grave.
This is less a reimagining than a reanimation of the long dead corpse of an idea.
It’s good, at best, for a drunken DVD night, with a script that’s amazingly witless when it isn’t lazy, and a climax that criminally wastes the gory possibilities of a large shredding machine.
This suspense vacuum has all the momentum of a Jason victim post-filleting.
Technically rather better than its predecessors, to whose storyline it refers, but the moral thrust remains the same.
The beast of high-budget horror can be vanquished only if we starve it of cash. Stay out of the cinemas, my friends, and Jason and his kind will finally be able to rest in peace.
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October 06, 2009:
Friday the 13th Sequel Scheduled for August 2010 ![]()
Mark your calendars, hockey fans -- Jason Voorhees is returning to theaters August 13, 2010, in the sequel to the "Friday the 13th" remake! More...
June 16, 2009:
Producers Talk Next Friday the 13th Sequel, Birds Remake ![]()
Producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are behind the rebooted "Friday the 13th" series and Platinum Dunes' gestating remake of "The Birds" -- both of which they discussed in a... More...
June 15, 2009:
RT on DVD: Friday the 13th, New Madea, and Lost Hits Blu-ray!
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February 27, 2009:
New Line Looking Forward to Next Friday the 13th ![]()
Surprise! New Line and Platinum Dunes are already plotting a sequel to their wildly popular "Friday the 13th" reboot! More...
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