Friday the 13th: Review

First off, let me just say that I realize that my last few posts are about horror movies. It's just a coincidence. This is not a purely horror movie blog now. With that being said, lets begin.

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS...

This weekend, I saw the new Friday the 13th movie with my sister. I'll just say that you either love this movie or you hate it. I am one of the people who liked it. Two posts ago, I said that this movie was a remake of the first three movies in the original franchise. All that means is it goes from Jason's mother being the killer (Friday the 13th) to Jason being the killer and wearing a sack over his head (Friday the 13th 2) to Jason being the killer wearing a hockey mask (Friday the 13th 3). We go from killer mother to hockey mask within the first 35-40 minutes or so of this movie.

The first 20 minutes of the movie were actually pretty good. A group of young people went on a hike to find a marijuana crop (which I thought was ridiculous, but whatever, I can deal with it). They get a little lost and decide to stop and set up camp. Two of the people then split away and stumble upon Jason's old cabin while the remaining three stayed at camp. Two of the remaining three decide they want to have sex so the one guy remaining goes for a walk. Not more than 5 minutes later, Jason begins to kill each one of them and let me just say, Jason is CRAZY. Here is a quick list of how things went down:

1- Machete through the cabin floor over and over so there is no safe place to stand
2- Wrapped in a blanket hanging over the camp fire
3- Bear Trap
4- Head cut off
5- Machete swung right into the skull

Just after the last death, FRIDAY THE 13TH appeared on the screen and people were actually cheering and clapping. I guess the beginning was just THAT good. However, as the movie went on, the killings became a bit more ridiculous, as did the never-ending sex scene in which one of the characters exclaims "Your tits are stupendous!" Anyway, the main plot of the story is of a guy named Clay (Jared Padalecki) trying to find his sister Whitney, one of the hikers from the beginning of the movie. Turns out she actually survived because she looked so much like Jason's mother that he couldn't kill her. The rest of the people in the movie served one purpose and one purpose only...to die. As the movie goes on, Jason kills them all simply because they are there (as a slasher movie should be). Another list:

1- Arrow through the head
2- Hit by a boat and then Machete right into the top of the head
3- Screwdriver into the chin
4- Axe thrown into the back
5- Thrown onto antlers on the cabin wall
6- Pole through the stomach then pinned to the back of a truck
7- Plain old machete stab then dragged away

Blah Blah movie went on and the two survivors, Clay and Whitney, manage to "kill" Jason and dump him into the lake along with his mask. Just then, Jason breaks through the boardwalk/dock or whatever you wanna call it, grabs Whitney...cue credits. Sequel anyone?

As people were leaving, I heard several of them say it sucked. Well, I actually enjoyed it (even though I had to nudge my sister several times during the movie to wake her up) and i give it a 7.5/10. Go see for yourself. If you've already seen it, voice your opinions in the comments section.