Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Poor old Tommy Jarvis (played in a dream sequence by Corey Feldman, played in the rest of the movie by somebody else) is being trucked off to the nut house. It seems that all has not been well for Tommy in the years since he killed Jason Voorhees. It should be a chance for a fresh start, but when one of the troubled (and likely horny) teens at Tommy's halfway house gets hacked up with an axe, it's only the beginning of the bloodshed. How's Tommy supposed to recover in a town full of horny teens, crazy rednecks, 50's greaser throwbacks, drifters, coked up horndogs, and guys with really sweet vans? Plus, is Jason somehow back from the dead? (Spoiler: No, he's not.)

Rating: Speared through an outhouse wall%

(Image from horrordvds.com)

5 comments:

DCP said...

This one is pretty terrible for a lot of reasons.

Also, glad you love reading all the blog and postings, Spammie!

I.J. said...

@ Mandie Reed
I don't want to chat with you. How about I just pay you to comment on my reviews?

Quammy said...

@Glenn

I actually really like this one, just because of how sleazy it is. Once you get past the whole "it's not really Jason" thing and look at it as just another body count movie, it's not too bad.

laurie said...

I was going to ask if that's the one where Jason walks the guy around like a puppet on bloody strings, but then I remembered that was Freddy. Whoops. Has anyone else see the trailer for the new Freddy movie?

Quammy said...

@ laurie

I've seen that new Nightmare on Elm Street trailer, they ran it before Zombieland. I'm not sure what to think of it. It looks like they're redoing EVERYTHING from the original (ie: the bathtub scene, the girl on the ceiling, etc.) but it also looks like they're trying to make Freddy sympathetic. The old Freddy was a child murderer/pedophile (maybe? I don't think they ever got specific), I just hope they don't make the new Freddy a victim of society or something. People liked the old Freddy because he told jokes and butchered stupid teens. We don't need a Freddy that's misunderstood and/or had a bad childhood. Also, the new Freddy makeup looks kinda like the aliens did in John Carpeneter's They Live.