Let me just start out by saying this: I love horror flicks. Give me anything from the 80's that's filled with cheese and I'll gobble it up. Friday the 13th is no exception. I'm not afraid to say that Part VI is one of my favorite movies of all time. So when I heard they were rebooting the series, I squeed like a little girl.
The first 30 minutes of the film are really good. Good deaths, decent plot progression, it sets the bar really high. Then the rest of the film doesn't even come close to that. It's really disappointing. It goes sharply downhill from there on. I found myself really only caring about two characters: Jason and Clay. All the other characters were so drowning in cliche that I really couldn't give two shits if they died or not. Yes. I get it. They're teenagers who like to party.
The one thing I really found myself saying the entire time was, "Okay, they took the effort to reboot a classic slasher series. When are they going to evolve it?" If you're going to reboot a series, do something different. Needless to say, they didn't do that. It's a Friday the 13th movie that leaves a really bad "New American horror film" taste in your mouth. Friday the 13th lovers beware.
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