Friday the 13th, the remake

Yet another example of how uncreative Hollywood has become....

 

Unfortunately, it's a no-brainer to do this.

It will cost about $20 million to make and it will make almost twice that opening weekend, regardless of how much it sucks.

Horror films are a gold mine in Hollywood.

 

Trailer's out, for those interested:

http://media.movieweb.com/video/play.swf?file=V08LjK6NbnZJ2I&prerollAd=ac_careers&prerollCache=99173&autostart=true

 

Not bad. Not close to the original though. But I'll see it, I'm sure.

 

wait a minute, there was a friday the 13th with jason in space? how the hell does that happen?

 

Great. More torture porn.

The horror genre needs gutted.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211443/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211443/plotsummary

Came out in 2001, was originally set in 2008 before fast forwarding a few centuries into the future.

 

Long story short, Jason gets frozen in a cryogenic chamber (which leads to one of the best kills of the entire series) and wreaks havoc on a spaceship. Believe it or not, it wasn't as bad as you might think. It didn't take itself too seriously, and had some fun with the plot.

 

I dunno. I'm sure the gore factor is up there, but the trailer looked like this thing may have a few genuinely scary parts. The part where the chick in the lake sees Jason in the woods, or he dumps the body as they're hiding looked scary. It also seems they've had Jason on an Olympic-level training regimen. He was moving in some of those clips.

 

well actually i was wondering how they let such a movie get made, not how jason winds up in space.

 

Considering they put Hellraiser and Leprechaun in space, it seemed it was Jason's turn. As for the movie itself, it had it's moments. Jason on a holodeck was very funny. But when one character said "This sucks on so many levels!" I agreed that it summed up the movie.

I'm looking forward to this latest reboot, even if the producers made the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series even more disgusting.

 

After watching the trailer again, I gotta say I'm in.
Unfortunately.
Not because the movie might suck, but because the F13 films have always gotten in my head. I've seen plenty of slasher films (including all the F13s) and random horror movies, and of none have stuck with me like these have. I think it's the randomness of Jason.
Michael Myers is spooky, to a point, but he's too focused. If you're not a member of the Strode family, having parties at his house and not inviting him, or otherwise getting in his way, you're generally OK. You might even pass him on the street and not end up dead, if it doesn't further his goals.
Same with Freddy. If you don't live on Elm Street or in Springfield, you'll sleep fine at night.

Jason, though, doesn't give a shit. Man, woman, old or young, you step into his world and you're dead. And the way those first few films were done, he was treated like a genuine bogeyman. He was more human than in the later films, when he became an undead joke. He was just "out there" waiting for some poor soul to cross his path.
He was the creepy campfire story brought to life — and, he's usually watching you from just beyond the fire while it's being told.
He was the twig snapping in the woods. The movement you catch in the corner of your eye. The shadowy figure you think you saw in the distance.
The trailer, and the poster, look like a return to that atmosphere. I expect to have the shit scared out of me.