Friday The 13th [2009] (DVD)

A review of just the film, this version of Friday the 13th was released in 2009 and the region 2 DVD is due to be released on August 10th. In 1980, a group of teenaged youth counsellors is brutally slaughtered by an unknown assailant. The sole surviving counsellor is confronted at the side of Camp Crystal Lake and in one final desperate bid to escape she beheads the killer with an enormous machete. But as she hysterically runs off into the woods, she is unaware that the entire incident has been witnessed. Many years later, a group of teenaged friends travels to the same area for a camping trip but an unknown assailant silently stalks the trees calmly waiting ...  Read the complete review

The newest Jason flick comes quick and fast with layers of gore and screams, and its an altogether better beast than its predecessors. Not least because of steady pacing, a good looking cast, and polished direction. A knowing, yet traditional, script doesn't do it any harm either. Hyped, or maligned rather, as a re-imagining, this is really just a remake of the better ideas in films 1, 2 and 3 from the old batch. Opening at Crystal Lake in 1980, we get a glimpse of Jason's mother avenging his drowning. It is a quick prologue that fills us in on the events of the original film, leading to the unfortunate beheading of Mrs Vorhees. We fast-track to ...  Read the complete review

Friday The 13th (2009) stars Travis Van Winkle, Jared Pdalecki and loads more. My boyfriend downloaded this from his Xbox for us to watch on Friday The 13th. I just wish he hadn't. I am not a big fan of blood, gore and horrors...so you can see where this is going. The genre of this film is obviously a horror (look at the picture ^^). This film was first released in 1980 and there has been sequels since then. A group of young adults set up their tent near an abandoned summer camp where a series of horrific murders are said to have taken place back in 1980. Jason who was said to have been drowned came back, and now is a murderer who uses ...  Read the complete review

The original Friday the 13th joined the slew of horro films that were released following the great success of revolutionary work Halloween, which invented the "slasher" genre. Whilst Friday the 13th is among the better horror franchises that then began, the first instalment is hardly even remake worthy - the film is notable for an impressive plot twist and a few imaginative kills (such as when Kevin Bacon, in one of his first screen roles, is stabbed through the throat with an arrow), but it still adheres to a lot of the staid and rudimentary tropes of the genre. Nevertheless, it was remade in 2009, and it's pretty middling stuff. The prologue ...  Read the complete review

A remake of the 1980's version that I never did get all the hype about. I waited for it to be released on dvd so I could watch it whilst in the safe, under the duvet comfort of home. The movie opens in a thick forest with Pamela Voorhees chasing the last walking wounded victim of the original Friday the 13th killings. Pamela blames the counsellor's for the death of her son, Jason, and states, categorically to the remaining survivor, "you need to be punished". As she is about to stab her, the counsellor hacks off her head in one sweeping action of the machete she has hidden behind her back. Throughout this black and white scene (something the ...  Read the complete review