Review of Friday the 13th (2009) by Stan S — 08 Sep 2012

Years after the famous slaughter at Camp Crystal Lake, a bunch of teenagers meet to party at a friend's house. But they soon realise that all is not as safe as they imagined.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a HUGE fan of the Friday The 13th franchise, and I approached this re-imagination with a certain amount of trepidation. The result is a mixed bag - some good, some bad. The movie starts by re-telling the end of the original movie, then has a bit of the sequel, and then goes off totally by itself. The characters are just as unlikable as you have to come to imagine with this kid of movie, and I didn't really care if they survived or not. The creators tried to give Jason a little bit of depth, but after you have watched 11 other movies of him killing people, you get to the point that you really don't care what his motivations are. The deaths were just as over-the-top as you would come to expect from this franchise, but then trying to make the rest of the movie a dark, gritty horror movie just didn't work - the campness (no pun intended) is sorely needed. Then there is the biggest mistake of the lot - no Kane Hodder!! This man has added so much to the series, and his love of the Jason character is the stuff of legend. All in all, this wasn't a bad movie, but I feel that it hasn't done the series any justice at all.