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Horror october #13
Oct. 13th, 2017 07:14 pmLook at the date. I couldn't not.
I'd never seen the Friday the 13th remake before, and probably for good reason. Not all remakes suck (The Thing, The Fly, 12 Monkeys...) but most modern remakes of 70s/80s horror movies do. But let's face it, the Friday the 13th movies were never all that good to begin with. Yeah, Jason Voorhees is an iconic movie monster with his hockey mask and machete, but the actual movies he starred in? Sadistic, by-the-numbers slashers nowhere near as scary as the first two Halloween, as fun as the first few Terror On Elm St, or as subversive as Sleepaway Camp. So a remake that straightens the whole mess out isn't necessarily a bad idea.
It's just a pity that Friday the 13th (2009) doesn't really try. Rather than turn it into an actual horror movie, they just condense the first three F13 movies into one with no added suspense or character or anything except an even more unstoppable Jason running around the woods in a hockey mask killing teenagers in various inventive (though not as inventive as in the original movies) ways, except now he's also occasionally kidnapping them and keeping them alive for... some reason. Having never watched Supernatural I don't know if Jared Padalecki has more acting range than he shows here, but I certainly hope so.
I'd never seen the Friday the 13th remake before, and probably for good reason. Not all remakes suck (The Thing, The Fly, 12 Monkeys...) but most modern remakes of 70s/80s horror movies do. But let's face it, the Friday the 13th movies were never all that good to begin with. Yeah, Jason Voorhees is an iconic movie monster with his hockey mask and machete, but the actual movies he starred in? Sadistic, by-the-numbers slashers nowhere near as scary as the first two Halloween, as fun as the first few Terror On Elm St, or as subversive as Sleepaway Camp. So a remake that straightens the whole mess out isn't necessarily a bad idea.
It's just a pity that Friday the 13th (2009) doesn't really try. Rather than turn it into an actual horror movie, they just condense the first three F13 movies into one with no added suspense or character or anything except an even more unstoppable Jason running around the woods in a hockey mask killing teenagers in various inventive (though not as inventive as in the original movies) ways, except now he's also occasionally kidnapping them and keeping them alive for... some reason. Having never watched Supernatural I don't know if Jared Padalecki has more acting range than he shows here, but I certainly hope so.
