Friday The 13th (2009)

[Dr. Briggs]

Heh I feel like I'm going to get shot here but....

I finally watched the remake the other day. Hated it. HATED IT. The back story of his mother is reduced to a 3 minute intro, the gore that made the first one stand out is lacking, and for god sakes, Jason does NOT RUN after his victims. He walks....that's why it's terrifying. It also seemed like they tried too damn hard to make this trendy, filling it with every drug, tech and sex cliche they could think of.

I think the most aggravating part is it completely lacked the element of surprise the first one had. The use of music & noise usually implies what's coming, not to mention you usually see Jason before the killing occurs.

The worst thing is - you feel no sympathy for these victims - you were rooting for them in the original series, now you're rooting for Jason to hurry up and pick these annoying cusses off.

I'm sorry - don't hurt me. Granted, I was never much of a Friday the 13th fan to begin with (although I loved Jason Takes Manhattan!) - I think I'm just getting disgusted at all these remakes and have a bad feeling they're going to trash my beloved Nightmare on Elm Street soon as well. I did, however, really dig the Halloween remake by Zombie.

*runs and hides*

Unsympathetic victims are a true bane of horror, especially modern horror, and lack of the element of surprise is just as annoying. I think the whole mentality that brings that crud is that filmmakers feel the killer him/herself is what brings the fans in, and not any fright they actually induce... (In many cases, they're unfortunately right)

However, what's wrong with Jason running? That very thing makes part 2 one of the best of the series and makes part 3 a lot better than it would be otherwise. I can also get behind the reasoning of not having Mrs. Voorhees take a big role in this one; non-fans would get pissed if Jason was upstaged and regular fans would see it coming. I think having her own menace be a prologue to everything works (Or it could. Of course I haven't seen it yet).