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Friday the 13th
New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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MPAA RATING: R for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material
Starring
Jared Padalecki,
Danielle Panabaker,
Aaron Yoo,
Amanda Righetti,
Travis Van Winkle,
and
Derek Mears
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney, with the help of Jenna, a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of Jason Voorhees. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Horror
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Damian Shannon
Mark Swift
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marcus Nispel
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 13, 2009
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| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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75
Entertainment Weekly
Clark Collis
However, this film is (be)head and shoulders above the recently reanimated likes of "Prom Night" and "My Bloody Valentine."
60
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
There's an itch for this kind of material, and here it is scratched -- to the bone.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols
The new new new Jason Vorhees, played by Derek Mears in this Michael Bay-produced homage/update of the '80s slasher franchise, is a bit of a fox.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A surprisingly straightforward romp in slasher-flick cliches, Friday the 13th is replete with gee-whiz gore, gratuitous sex and nudity and party-loving teens with a penchant for ending up on the wrong end of a pick ax.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
It's business as usual at Camp Crystal Lake, with very little in the way of fresh jolts or an innovative visual style that would have really revitalized the hokey franchise.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
About the best Friday the 13th movie you could hope for. Its technical credits are excellent. It has a lot of scary and gruesome killings. Not a whole lot of acting is required.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
Despite an evident appetite for mayhem, however, Bay is not the right guy to produce slasher movies. Horror requires intimacy.
50
Variety
Rob Nelson
As in his "Chainsaw" remake, Nispel's scare tactics amount to little more than carefully timed cattle-prod shocks, aided by high-volume speaker blasts that were beyond the budgetary reach of the early '80s films.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Nispel is no Rob Zombie - who achieved something akin to brilliance with his 2007 Halloween remake. What's more, as influential as it's been, Friday the 13th was never that great.
50
Premiere
Staff (Not credited)
Just because itβs less campy doesn't mean the acting isn't awful.
50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This Friday the 13th is glossy, good-looking garbage, acted out by a cast of big-chested androids (male and female alike) and with the original series' rough edges smooved over. It's reasonably entertaining.
50
TV Guide
Cammila Albertson
It's not an openly meta take on the genre like "Scream," but it's a slasher movie for people who love slasher movies, and if your heart will flutter when a woodchipper casually appears in the first act, it's probably worth watching.
50
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
It accomplishes what it sets out to do, and if slasher fare is your thing, you've seen far worse.
42
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
What damage could Michael Bay inflict on Jason Voorhees that earlier producers hadn't already inflicted on everyone's favorite hockey-masked serial killer? Well, Bay could make Jason Voorhees ... boring.
40
Empire
Kim Newman
Unlucky for almost everyone. It's a sad day when a Friday the 13th remake is shown up by a My Bloody Valentine remake β couldn't they at least have sprung for 3-D?
40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
The question isn't whether Nispel's remake is better than the 1980 original (it isn't) but whether anything original is brought into the mix. And minus a mild plot twist you"ll probably see coming from the first five minutes, there isn't.
38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
While it's billed as a "re-imagining" of the horror franchise, this Friday is more like a rehash, delivering just what you expect and nothing more.
38
Chicago Tribune
Christopher Borrelli
This new Friday the 13th, unquestionably savvier and snappier than the original "Friday the 13th," though just as useless, is a needed return to simplicity.
38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
If all you're looking for is breasts, blood, and gore, this film hits pay dirt. None of the killings are terribly inventive, but they are plentiful, and why bother being devious when axes, machetes, knives, and pointed sticks will do the job just as well?
38
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Is the Crystal Lake PD really doing such a good job? You'd have to go back to Phnom Penh in 1975 to find a place with a higher per-capita rate of unprosecuted homicides.
30
Washington Post
Dan Zak
Michael Bay is destroying horror films by exhuming the genre's standard-bearers, stripping them of genuine terror, refusing to either re-create faithfully or reimagine boldly, and upping the irony until the original concept stands rigid like a taxidermied grizzly, its teeth bared but its presence, most of all, sad.
30
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
This means that for one ticket price, you get three shoddy Friday the 13th movies packed into one, which might constitute entertainment value if any one of them constituted entertainment.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The reboot of the "Friday the 13th" series is a pretty big mess - not particularly scary or interesting or even gory by 21st century movie standards.
25
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
It's almost charming in its sheer lack of ambition, but the lack of creativity in its by-the-numbers shocks is harder to excuse.
25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie might have worked if it winked more - or if it played things completely straight.
20
New York Daily News
Staff (Not credited)
Purists will be β happy? Relieved? β to know that the "ch-ch-chhh" music survived, and the body count still totals 13.
20
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Not fun, louder than it is scary, not even all that gory, this new Friday the 13th has Jason, all right, but otherwise it's missing nearly everything that made the original films work.
20
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
You really have to screw it up to dishonor the memory of a movie as shitty as the original "Friday the 13th." Heads should roll.
0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
But bad, this film's so bad! To flub the fans' most beloved butcher boy.
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