Three things concern me about the Friday the 13th remake.
1/ The first is pop culturally. How come I recognize all the principal starlets in the film, even though I've never seen a movie of theirs? From Danielle Panabaker, Wila Ford, Amanda Righetti to Juilianna Guill..they all strike me with familiarity, yey I am unable to place them. Whether it's reading too many free celebrity magazines at work or flicking MTV channels too frequently...I'm a little worried.
2/ Platinum Dunes are obviously making it their mission objective to obtain rights to 70's and '80's horror franchises, and remake them for a modern teen audience. From The Hitcher, Amityville to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the original movies are simple, effective and terrifying examples of the horror genre. Not much needs updating or changing...so it should be easy to achieve a desent remake. Then why to Platinum Dunes miss the point every time?
Friday the 13th(2009) takes itself far too seriously, the cast (while pretty) are pretty unlikable or forgettable slasher fodder and director Marcus Nispel has no interest at all in building dramatic tension. Hell, we're in a post Scream era...I'd have thought every kid with a camera knew the rules to making good slasher films.
3/ They've turned Jason Vorhees into a cliched, redneck hick! He was once a slow moving, lumbering, supernatural enigma. Now he's just a pissed off farm boy with a hockey mask. Making him faster..that's cool, after all the zombies can all run, these days. But revealing his lair...just like Leatherface's...it drains the monster of his mystery. Rob Zombie also did this in his Halloween remake, but he did invest half the movie in enriching his now human-based psychosis.
If you've never seen a teen-slasher movie before, this won't find any ways to surprise or scare you. If you have, hows about a petition to halt Platinum Dunes before they get round to remaking Elm Street and The Birds.
2 comments:
Yep. This was poo. Boring and predictible filled with bland unlikaeble TV actors.
But then I never liked the original Friday the 13th much nor its sequels. Jason was never a horror icon I really got. Having said that I do like Part 6: Jason Lives and Jason X because they are tongue in cheek and are having fun with the whole silly premise.
This remake was exactly what I thought it would be: boring but good looking garbage.
Platinum Dunes must be stopped.
Unsure what your aiming for in viewing these films. There are very few horror classics and if they are, it's just from the adolesent eyes from which you viewed them. Long live the remake of these cheap hack jobs. This was shite though!!!
And Nick, come on. Jason is an Iconic Horror figure, it's just that his films are shit.
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