Review: Friday The 13th

Posted by Ali at 13:42 on 14 Feb 2009 Reviews A-Z

"Remakes? Pah!" Before you spit with indignation, remember it's kind of hard to besmirch the legacy of a slasher series that boasts ten awful sequels thus far. In fact, a Friday The 13th remake is one of the safest bets imaginable, and paired with a release date nobody's likely to forget - the day before Valentine's, no less - t...

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Posted by Kirsty at 22:48 on 14/02/09

Hey, it's Friday 13th next month too, do you reckon it'll stick around for 4 weeks?

Posted by Ben at 14:02 on 14/02/09

I thought it was fun. I went in there expecting little more that Jason popping up and slashing away, and that's what I got. There was no needless exploration of the psyche of Jason or anything, and the characters were a ridiculously cliched paint by numbers bunch, but I appreciated that it didn't try to be anything different. I'm glad they didn't go down the Scream road, and have someone spouting 'the rules'.

Still, I'd only stretch to an extra star, but thought it was more enjoyable than the Halloween remake, and certainly better than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

Interesting point about this type of slasher movie being 'inferior' - they rarely try to be anything different, and people always seem willing to go see them, I guess sometimes something this basic, with all the jumps in all the right places is all I want - I wonder if raising the standard of writing, the characterisation etc is even possible in this genre without losing its appeal..?