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Title: Friday the 13th (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jared Padalecki | ... | Clay Miller | |
| Danielle Panabaker | ... | Jenna | |
| Amanda Righetti | ... | Whitney Miller | |
| Travis Van Winkle | ... | Trent | |
| Aaron Yoo | ... | Chewie | |
| Derek Mears | ... | Jason Voorhees | |
| Jonathan Sadowski | ... | Wade | |
| Julianna Guill | ... | Bree | |
| Ben Feldman | ... | Richie | |
| Arlen Escarpeta | ... | Lawrence | |
| Ryan Hansen | ... | Nolan | |
| Willa Ford | ... | Chelsea | |
| Nick Mennell | ... | Mike | |
| America Olivo | ... | Amanda | |
| Kyle Davis | ... | Donnie | |
A group of young adults set up tent near the abandoned summer camp where a series of gruesome murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. The perpetrator was a grieving mother, driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, whom she believed was neglected by the camp counselors. As legend has it, the last survivor of the attacks beheaded the woman. But then Jason came back, and now he is a vengeful and inexorable killer, wielding crossbows, swords, axes and other sharp instruments. The legend proves horribly true, as these campers quickly discover. Six months later, the brother of one of those campers distributes posters of his missing sister. The police believe she took off with her boyfriend; but he knows better. The brother crosses paths with an uptight young rich guy who is having his girlfriend and friends over at his parents' cabin. The brother ends up at the cabin himself just before his sister's attacker sets upon them all. Written by J. Spurlin
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Look, I know F13 series was never high art. it was never really clever (except maybe part 6).. it was camp. but in general, it was fun.
This film alternated between three moods
1) nothing. I mean there is at least ONE HOUR where NOTHING HAPPENS! a bunch of moronic, profanity-laden kids TALK!!! No suspense. No horror. No humor.. NOTHING!!
2) Sex. Hey, part of the slasher genre is some sex scenes. But this felt more like soft-porn. There was one sex scene that felt like it went on for TWENTY MINUTES.. I didn't clock it, but it sure felt like it to me. These scenes went WAY beyond T&A or tease. I actually felt uncomfortable watching some of these.
3) Sadistic-torture porn. When Jason was around it felt more like a Saw movie, or maybe the remake of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Jason TORTURES his victims? Huh? Instead of a supernatural zombie he is more in line with a sadistic serial killer. a VERY different personality, and one that I felt was repugnant. In the original, Jason was alternately fun and scary. In this, he was just a sicko. Ugh.
This pretty much sums up the movie for me.
Oh, except one more thing. It looks like they used the lights over from AvP:Requiem. The scenes were TOO dark to see. And the Michael Bay 2-second scenes just made it worse! This wasn't some heavy cheap=CGI that had to be 'hidden' with low lit scenes and fast cutting!! I couldn't take it anymore.. And found myself fast forwarding to get through the picture.. Every time I played the movie it was one of the above 3 moods..
I never thought I would appreciate the 1980 original so much. That was truly a brilliant piece of film-making compared to this.
I have NO idea of who/why someone would like to see this. I am seeing some folks giving this high marks, so obviously it is filling a need. Just one that I don't understand.
Where was the fun?
If there are sequels to this reboot,then I will pass..