Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
5. Friday the 13th
The original: 1980
The remake: Feb. 13, 2009
He’s killed enough sex-mad teens to cause a drop in the national birth rate. He’s survived Hell. He’s been stranded in deep space. He’s fought Freddy Krueger. Given its two-decade descent into self-parody, the Friday the 13th franchise deserved to die. Still, Jason Voorhees lives on. But how many new ways are there for Jason to slay and slay again to warrant rebooting one of horror’s most enduring but preposterous series? Can we expect producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel, who revived The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to at least give us a thorough psychological breakdown of the machete-wielding murderer á la Rob Zombie’s Halloween? If so, will it confirm what we already suspected, that Jason is really Michael Myers hiding behind a hockey mask?
Photo(s) by Paramount Pictures- © 2008- All Rights Reserved
