Friday 13th - Official Trailer!

[The Curmudgeon]

Oh God.

Yes, I'm afraid so. ANOTHER fucking remake. Produced by Michael Bay, who now seems happy churning out these things (he's done TCM, Amityville, The Hitcher and will soon be responsible for ruining The Birds and a Nightmare on Elm Street) and directed by, um, the guy who directed music videos for the Spice Girls and Janet Jackson, this trailer makes NO sense.

So it's a "re-imagining" (ah, the favourite word of Hollywood hacks) of Friday 13th. OK - so why do they already have Jason established as the hockey masked killer?

In other words; we want to make another Friday 13th movie, but after sending him into fucking space and having him fight Freddy, we can't really just put him back into Crystal Lake and make another bog-standard slasher movie without using the word "re-imagining." God, horror movies SUCK now.

Sigh, we're still all going to see it, we're still all going to be disappointed, and it'll still mean decent horrors will be remade and ruined by these talentless dicks with no ideas.

Oh yeah, here's the trailer..

www.myspace.com/trailerpark

[trashcanman]

Speak for yourself. I'm not seeing this unless I hear it's the best fucking remake ever. I won't pay to be aggravated by that fucking hack and his minions any more. Bay's also got "Rosemary's Baby" in his sites. "Burn, Hollywood, Burn."

[Benjamin Haines]

Honestly, I probably won't even see this when it hits DVD or TV, much less pay to see it in a theater.

[The Curmudgeon]

Hunh.. now these reactions ARE a surprise.

So what's up? Burned out on remakes?

[Benjamin Haines]

I've been burnt out on remakes pretty much since the craze hit Hollywood earlier in the decade. A handful have been good and/or worthwhile (King Kong, The Ring, and 3:10 to Yuma are the only ones that come immediately to mind), but I honestly can't say that any of them were truly necessary. I especially don't see the point in remaking horror movies. If it was an effective horror movie to begin with, it doesn't need to be rehashed, and if it wasn't effective to begin with then a remake isn't likely to change things. The Bay-produced remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror were horseshit, so I honestly have no intention of ever seeing this new Friday The 13th.