Friday the 13th
by Gavin
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posted Nov 2 2011 7:19PM
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 Friday the 13th (Rated R)
Gavin Grade: F
I like horror movies! I truly do! Not only am I fan of horror movies, but I'm even a fan of re-making horror movies. I think that the classic horrors can always use a touch-up and a sprucing in the story department. However, the re-make of "Friday the 13th" was simply a reminder of why this franchise was always my least favorite. Jason, in comparison with the other big ones (ie: Leatherface, Freddy Kruger and Michael Myers) always seemed so stilted in his folklore. I never even really understood it. Is he alive, dead, a demon...what? And considering that they marketed this as a re-make, they didn't do anything to help explain that. In fact it's not much of a re-make at all. If anything it just felt like another terrible sequel; almost like one last attempt to kick-start a dead franchise. But in the movie's defense, that's all any of these re-makes are. "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The Hills Have Eyes," "Halloween" were all trying to squeeze more cash from them, but they all brought something new to the table. "Friday the 13th" not only doesn't bring anything new, they don't even bring anything old. Sure there's still the violence, sex and startles, but it's executed in such a piss-poor manner that it screams "zero effort." It's like they knew this was gonna make them some money, so all they did was hire gorgeous (subpar) actors, whip up a mindless script and then throw lots of money at it to see if it works. Well, it didn't. It didn't scare. It didn't make me laugh. It didn't make me jump. The only thing it did was make me wish that the forthcoming re-makes of "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Hellraiser" and "Last House on the Left" don't follow suit.
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