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IESB reader AEROMUNCH caught an early screening of FRIDAY THE 13TH due out in theaters Friday, February 13, 2009.
{sidebar id=1}Read what he thought about it below,
I was lucky enough to see a test screening of the Friday the 13th
reboot in Long Beach, CA a couple weeks back. They announced to us that
it was the very first screening of the movie, there were a lot of exec
looking folks and I spied Marcus Nispel over in the back as well.
They warned us that what we saw was rough but it seemed like a
finished, complete product. Music was in, effects were in. Plot wise,
the movie does not reinvent the wheel at all. In fact, it doesn't
recreate any of the sequences from the first 2 movies. They are
references in a classic scary story campfire scene, and there are a few
visual shots that are things from the prior movies, but it basically
acts like movies 1-2 happened in the past. For all intents and
purposes, this movie acts like part 3.
So to give a breakdown of the film without giving too many spoilers:
It's
not a PG-13 horror movie at all. It's been referenced in interviews,
but there are a couple of nude/sex scenes in the movie (that are
actually longer than I'd imagine...I'm wondering if they don't trim
those down by release) and the kills are all creative and brutal as
you'd come to expect from the Jason flicks.
It starts with a teenagers in the woods sequence and that gives way
to the main storyline which is a bunch of bratty rich kids going up to
their parents' cabin just off of Crystal Lake. They manage to have your
typical slasher archetypes....the sweet girl, the slutty girl, the
jerky jock, the weird guy who's destined to be the hero, the token
funny guy (there's actually two in this one) and they all do their job
well. You hate the jock, you root for the good guy and the comic relief
characters are actually pretty funny. The movie got a few real laughs
from the whole audience as well as some shrieks and groans on the
harsher scenes. It uses a few of your typical "scare parts" but has
some nice creative scenes as well...all in all it should be pleasing
for fans of the series.
If you're familiar with Nispel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie,
then you've got a good idea how this movie looks. It's got a lot of
that movie as far as the set designs and lighting....which in my
opinion isn't a bad thing. The movie generally has a serious tone, at
least when Jason is around, and doesn't camp it up like Jason X or
Freddy vs. Jason. It takes the character seriously and tries to portray
him as scary, and it does a good job. I don't think slasher movies are
super scary to start with, but this one makes a solid effort of it.
All in all, I came away really happy with the movie. I'm a big
horror fan (and especially the Friday series) and it seems like the
creators had a lot of respect for the series. They left the first two
movies alone, and took the best elements of the rest of the series and
made a movie with modern production values. I'll be curious to see how
much they change before release, but I'll shell out my $11 in February.
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