FRIDAY THE 13TH- REMAKE (2009) by jeff

DIRECTED BY: Marcus Nispel
Written By: Damian Shannon & Mark Swift;
Story By: Damian Shannon & Mark Swift & Mark Wheaton
Based On Characters By: Victor Miller
Cinematography By: Daniel C. Pearl
Editor: Ken Blackwell

CAST: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Travin Van Winkle, Willa Ford, America Olivio



Come for the horror, stay for the nudity. Should be the tagline for this film.

While the film seems to think it's smart in satarizing the cliches. It proves to be like laughing at your own jokes, While noone else is laughing.

The Film tries to add some infamous scenes from the previous movies. The ending of part one with the death of Mrs. Voorhies are remade and are the opening minutes of the film. It has all the hallmarks weed, Sex, Nudity. Used to a degree but not as much as the original films. Trying to use a less predictable nature that doesn’t work as this film is still predictable. Going against the original by not having Jason be the killer. Would have been sublime. The film shows a short scene at the beginning acknowledging that she did go crazy and kill some campers. Before she was killed. Still Though JAson is the main killer. I'm not saying theyhave to copy each and every film, But at least play with the notions.

The Film is so bombastic with the score with every action there is no real surprise you always know what’s going to happen. It gets so predictable.

Everything in the film happens matter of factly. There is no suspense leading to the killing. No foreplay just gory violence. The more violent the better no real thought seems to go into it. The film also comes up with interesting ideas but quickly drops them like the fact Jason knows where his victims are due to a bell system set up underground that is tied to various objects on the surface to let him know the location of people. Plus elaborate traps and various weapons. This laso takes all the the mystery and suspense out of the preceedings. While it might have been original in a seperate horror or thriller. Here it seems like a lame idea to try and rationalize and explain things.

For a guy livening in the woods off the land he sure did get big and talented sort of like Michael Myers in the remake of HALLOWEEN how? The victims are characters who have no character. I Didn’t like them or feel sorry for them as they were dispatched. That unfortunately seems to be a new trend make the characters like cattle so the audience doesn’t care we just wait and root for there demise like a bull at a matador show.

Half the time you want to see the victims die. They are so unlikeable like the 2 minority characters only seem to be here to play out stereotypes. They get no female attention yet are horny and seemingly the only drug craving characters. In fact the black guy only seems to be around to add to the body count and say “oh it’s because I’m black” a bunch of times. It made me feel like this Is one of the times I would be happy for the black guy to die first. Get him out of this embarrassing role and movie, but I wouldn’t expect any less from a Michael Bay product. Which always seems to be more about visuals and less about concept, And of course one of the last victims has to be the biggest idiot and asshole to have the anticipation be worth it and while there death is brutal it is not as glorious as one would hope

It would have been a interesting twist if Jason kept some of the bodies for food and recreation or trophies. It would help explain about the part of the film where he kidnaps a girl and keeps her how does she stay alive over time food and water wise?

The director Marcus Nispel Seems determined to direct every Re-boot of horror series (He Previosuly directed the remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) being that he is a former video director it seems he is used to telling a story strictly through visuals and less with dialogue which may explain the style on display in this film as the script has many problems but luscious visuals when you can see them. Which brings up another problem. It also doesn’t help that the film is so saturated with darkness it makes many scenes hard to see.

The best and most entertaining scene In the whole movie was the sex scene at the house. Which makes me think Marcus Nispel may have a career in making horror porn or should switch to erotic thrillers instead of horror. This is honestly one of the hottest sex scenes i have ever seen. It truly is just short of porn. It looks real and is more sexy then all out porn. It is obviously exploitive based on one of the hallmarks of the original series of films. Like most of the rest of the film. It is over the top, But might be the best action sequence in the whole film.

GRADE:D