Friday the 13th (2009)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, Conan)
	Actors: Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Derek Mears, Richard Burgi (The Sentinel TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 22.12.2014, SD VOD, 32" TV
Synopsis: A bunch of stoned teenagers in the forrest along Crystal Lake, a masked killed... Jason is definitely back.
Review: In a recent article in the Mad Movies magazine (about the Nightmare on Elm Street / Freddy saga), I read some bad review about the most recent episode. Looking for some fright one evening, I decided to watch the latest movie in a saga I know better: Friday 13th. This one is more a reboot, skipping the story of the first Friday 13th (in which the mother is the killer) to show it as prologue only, and thus jumping firectly to the part when Jason Voorhees is the killer. It was produced by Michael Bay after he did the same with the remake of  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which I found good at the time, maybe because more centered around a good actress (Jessica Biel) rather than around interexchangeable youngsters. The story in this new movie may not be less clever than the original ones from the 80's, but it feels definitely outdated. I am now conviced there is no more room for such boogeymen in our decade, except if one cleverly re-invents the genre like it was done in Scream or more recently in The Cabin in the Woods. Or you need to invent a new boogeyman like in Saw or Jeepers Creepers. But the good old Jason (although I like the character) become quickly all too boring. I don't even mention the actors whose performance doen't bring anything to the movie, only the plastic quality of some do. And where on Earth is the camera placement behind the branches (subjective shooting) and the haunting theme from Harry Manfredini's (tchi tchi tchi ha ha ha).
Rating: 2 /10