It’s Time For A New Friday The 13th

Slasher flicks are always a guilty pleasure for many flick arers. Sure, they won’t obtain censors’ numbers. They won’t acquire A+ scores from the movie press. They won’t also acquire C scores from home-based online experts. Hacker movies will always be shriek-filled stories with empty outlines.

But throughout the times, these slasher films have carved – forgive the pun – a niche of their own.

A big portion of the triumph of these slasher movies can be attributed to the Friday the 13th series and its 15 incarnations. Friday the 13th is a series of movies that starred a hockey veil-wearing psycho killer named Jason Voorhees. So famous is this program that it has become a staple of pop society, being recommended in numerous news outlets for a nice segment of the newly concluded century.

In 2009, a rerun of the series will be presented for the film going public to experience. One more time, fans of slasher movies and persons who are new to the genre will get to enjoy the father of slasher-premised movies, this time recreated for the latest generation.

Yes, Jason Voorhees is about to make a comeback!

This time, he won’t be battling another film monster icon. He won’t be in space, liberated from years of cryogenic trance. He won’t be fighting off the opposition of a female telepath.

Instead, we will witness, or re-witness, the nativity of a serial killer. We will unearth the account that produced a mess like Jason Voorhees. We will see him threaten the hapless vacationers experiencing the warm waters of Camp Crystal Lake.

It’s 2009 and it’s time for another Friday the 13th!

The remake is done by Marcus Nispel, who also did the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film will star Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees, with Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti playing the man and woman leads, correspondingly.

The film will be shown on a Friday the 13th, particularly February 13, 2009.