"You see he was my son, his name was Jason. And today is his birthday" - FRIDAY THE 13th trailer!
The official FRIDAY THE 13th trailer is attached to prints of SAW V which opens worldwide today and has now kindly been made available online via Myspace.
As a big fan of 80's horror, this has unquestionably been a movie on my radar since it was first announced but no more so than any of the later Jason sequels. I can't say I'm looking forward to this one anymore than I was seeing Jason in space in JASON X but I will keep paying to see this character on the big screen because I feel like he's been part of my upbringing since I first saw the early films.
What works in the trailer... well I love the voice-over, it gives a great atmospheric setting and brings a tragic quality to the story. Music is solid, but I have a lot of problems with the rest of what we have been shown... it feels to clean, to modern, Jason too much of a superhero... it's failings are the same as every recent slasher film.
Shake cam doesn't work these days. It's too sophisticated a technique, directors are too good at it.
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Marcus Nispel is the director here and Michael Bay once again the producer, the same pairing that brought us THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake five years ago... a movie I didn't hate but was too well shot and artistically bright to be nearly as effective as the original 1970's Tobe Hooper gritty and bleak masterpiece.
Same can be said here. A studio driven Jason Voorhees is not something that interests me much. It's days like these I kinda wish Eli Roth had gotten his hands on the project.
If CABIN FEVER wasn't the greatest homage to FRIDAY THE 13th ever made, I don't know what is!
Watch for the movie on Friday February 13th 2009!