i respectfully dissagree - the fact that the killer was jason’s mother was a twist ending, and the ‘legend of jason’ became just that: a ghost story.

then, of course you have the famous last scene - where jason emerges from the water and attacks the person on the boat… was that real, or imagined?

a perfect horror film - no need to change it.

If the Friday the 13th remake has one hurdle to overcome, it’s this: do teenagers go to sleepaway camp anymore? Is Jason going to have to terrorize a soccer camp? an SAT prep camp?

I hope they make it scary and go easy on the CGI.

Are you fucking kidding? This attitude is the primary reason the state of movies in shambles today. 99% of what is produced is today is worthless crap. NEW ideas are what is needed. Not hackneyed remakes and sequels. Jesus! I cannot understand this mentality at all, except that is must have to do with people so deeply entrenched in fast food culture that only want to gorge on more of the same shit over and over. I can’t believe any so called fan of movies can possess this attitude. Amazing.

As for The Hitcher, it’s also a good, entertaining movie. Granted, they could have done a much better movie if th”ey’d wanted to, bet they chose not to, and the end result is just, well, entertaining.

Following Halloween, remakes of Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street are prett much inevitable. At least, Platinum Dunes has, I believe, capable hands.

Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Pinhead, Chucky and Michael Myers will never die, because they are our modern day Frankensteins and they also continue to make money while never raising a fuss over their salaries. They will be making these films when we’re 50, so I find it highly regressive to argue against these films - which, on average, will always be terrible to critics and entertainment for the masses. Better Michael Bay and Nispel rescue the F13 franchise from the direct-to-DVD abyss than to have it linger there forever. Agree?

I love these films though, especially the F13 and NOES series. And I for one, was nearly offended by the net’s critics piling on Rob Zombie for his remake of Halloween, which was an original and fresh take on the character, a character that truly needed an origins story because after countless sequels, Myers had grown trite and without a purpose. And the film had a sense of dread and terror that was completely his own, and I prefer the argument that Zombie’s take on Michael, while not the definitive take of Carpenter’s (one of my fave directors btw), was akin to one of the many depictions of Batman or Wolverine’s origins “Weapon X” throughout the ages.

Bring on Jason! Jigsaw and the Hostel Torture Factory is no match, kiddies, for this dumb, masked slayer.

Also, Freddy vs Jason was downright awesome. I’d love to see a better script or a better film come out of that trivial, cheesy premise. Pure popcorn horror at its best, and I’m surprised no sequel to that one has been greenlit, as it made $80 million without effort.

And I’m with entdex on the suspense. After the first four Fridays, they forgot to make them scary.