Katharine Boynton
Staff writer
Take a group of young adults. Add a psychopathic, bloodthirsty killer with his own back-story. Mix in generous amounts of alcohol, illegal drugs, gratuitous sex scenes and morbid death scenes.
Also, for an extra hint of horror, place the young adults in the middle of nowhere, allowing themselves to be put into contrived circumstances. Season to taste with an urban legend and ta-dah you have a horror movie.
Producer, Michael Bay’s latest installment of remaking classic horror movies has swung the death axe on “Friday the 13th.”
This version of the movie takes place in the present with the main character looking for his missing sister at the place where she was last seen–Camp Crystal Lake.
In “Friday the 13th” there isn’t enough suspense.
Instead, the suspense that viewers are supposed to feel in a horror movie is replaced with excessive violence and awkward sex scenes.
The original “Friday the 13th” was released in the 80s.
Offering up a tale of a mother reaping revenge on camp counselors who let her son Jason drown.
The latest version only touches on the original briefly, partly in a campfire story between a group of young adults (recipe ingredient), and with a drive down memory lane to the death of Jason’s mother by a camp counselor, to legitimize why Jason is a sociopath.
Don’t feel obligated to run out and rent the original. None of the new version derives anything from the old version, besides the psychopathic serial killer (another ingredient).
This isn’t the first time Bay has tried his hand at messing up classics by revamping them for the present.
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” was another one of his recipe followed horror movies.
All in all, I would say save your money and wait for this one to hit your local rental store. It isn’t worth $7.