I'm really not surprised that somehow there was a need to make another Friday the 13th. It seems to be a trend in horror movies. Apparently 11 wasn't enough. They needed to add one more to the list so that we now have Friday the 13th (1980), Friday the 13th Part 2, Friday the 13th Part 3, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Jason X, Freddy vs. Jason and the latest Friday the 13th because they also felt the need to make another version of the orignal.
Friday the 13th isn't the only movie franchise that has felt the need to do the same. Another classic example is the Halloween movie franchise although right now it only consists of 9. Halloween (1978), Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20: 20 years later, Halloween: Resurrection, and of course another version of Halloween in 2007.
There's also The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The first series has The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The second series has A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Freddy vs. Jason.
Personally I think these seemingly never ending movie series are getting old and pretty ridiculous. I don't get scared or jump or cry or scream during these "scary" movies mainly because they're so incredibly predictable. In almost all of these horror film franchises there's a freak killer who has a target group of victims and usually kills them off one by one. It's not very surprsing when it happens either. When someone goes off on their own the music is cued and that person dies. Shocker.
I feel like any remake of an original movie is never going to be as good especially when it's the 12th of a series. This remake was full of cliches, had nothing new to offer, didn't do anything different. For example there wasn't a mystery or anything to solve or something to look forward to. It was more of a guessing game at who would be the last to survive. Of course there had to be the lights being turned off by the killer, phone lines dead, cell phones don't have service, when help comes they're immediately killed before they can help, and for some reason the only vechile isn't drivable.
Two thumbs down.
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After reading through everyone else's blogs, I think Kim's is the one that I can agree with most. Hollywood's lack of originality lately is really staring to (in the immortal words of Peter Griffin) "grind my gears".
ReplyDeleteKim did forget to mention the crapfest that is Saw II-X (They have to be on ten by now, right?). I left out the original Saw because well, it was original.
Anyway, back to the movie. I'm not sure what more I have to offer here though besides what Kim has already said perfectly. Friday the 13th I - Take 2 was chock full of serial killer cliches. What I was thinking of the whole time was the scene in Scream where the one character is explaining all the things they shouldn't do because they were obviously "in a horror movie".
I just made a quick jump over to urban dictionary - Check out the generic horror movie rules (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=horror%20movie%20rules). They totally fit this movie. When a post on urbandictionary describes your movie to a T, even before it comes out....take it back to the drawing board, Hollywood.