On a Friday the 13th in
1980 a surviving camp counsellor at Camp
Crystal Lake beheaded a disturbed woman
named Pamela Voorhees (Nana Visitor) to
save her own life from her in which she
blamed the rest of the counsellors for
her son Jason's death.
However, young Jason seemed to rise out
of the lake and took the remains of his
Mom thinking to do her killing like she
did for him while not being rescued.
Twenty years have passed
and the camp remained closed as a bunch
of kids decide to party out at Crystal
Lake. One of them tells a campfire story
about Jason and his mother claiming that
Jason (Derek Mears) is still out there
but laugh about it.
Next they are all slayed by this maniac
and two of them named Wade (Jonathan
Sadowski) and his girfriend Whitney
Miller (Amanda Righetti) discovers a
broken down house in the middle of
nowhere finding a decapitated head and
some candles. Jason enters and kills Wade
and Whitney is missing.
Six weeks later
Whitney's older brother Clay (Jared
Padalecki) goes on a search for his
sister sending out missing flyers and run
into a crowd of partying teens at a
corner store whom don't think too fond of
him except for an understanding one named
Jenna (Danielle Panabaker) whom is
concenred and later on he goes to an old
lady's house who tells him his sister
would be dead by now due to a person who
lurks around the area there.
He goes to a lodge as he encounters the
same partying teens and the owner of the
lodge named Trent (Travis Van Winkle)
doesn't make him welcome but Jenna goes
on the search with Clay to find his
sister while the rest party and go
swimming.
Jason is watching all of them as he kills
them one by one while Clay and Jenna go
to the boarded up Camp Crystal Lake and
discover some terrifying secrets there
and secret passageways to Jason's domain.
The story
is fast paced the filmmakers did an impressive job
regardless as there's a nice camera shot
on a sign saying Camp Crystal Lake in a
rainstorm during the beginning with a surviving camp counsellor running away
freaking out with Mrs.
Voorhees on her tail and then trying to
convince her that getting killed will be
easier for her than it was for her son as
there's a quick battle which looked a
little cheesy along with a nice fast
action on this camper swinging a
machette to her head. Then we have a good
camera shot on a young Jason by stooping down towards the
corpse and looking at a locket with a
nice voice over of his Mom about
killing for him and now to kill for her.
There's interesting dark shots on the group of teenagers camping out by putting up
their tent and gathering around a bonfire
with one of them telling them what had
happened there.
We spot a good shot on supporting actor Mike bending down to get
something and then a shot on Jason wearing a sack looking over
him and then striking his machette.
There's a good shot on Amanda in
a sleeping bag tied to a tree being
roasted by a bonfire with Richie trying
to rescue her and then being caught in a
bear trap with great painful expressions.
There's are good shots on both Wade and Whitney Miller trying to explore
where Camp Crystal Lake was as well as
them exploring a beat up old house.
There's a perfect shocked reaction on Wade after spotting a decapitated head
with the door slamming on them. Then we
have good shots on a machette stabbing
through the floor of the house against Wade with the two of them screaming and
trying to steer clear.
There's a great struggle with Whitney trying to get Richie free from
the bear trap with him telling her to
hurry up and a good shot on Jason standing there and then throwing his
machette at him with her falling back and
screaming.
There's a good scene with Clay Miller looking around an old
house at Crystal Lake and knocking on the
door with a good jumping moment on a
german shepherd barking at the door. Then
we have a nice presence on an
old lady giving him a nice unfriendly
look with him trying to ask her if she's
seen this person around holding a flyer
of a missing person and she bitterly
answers well telling him she'd be dead
being around here cause of a person which
leaves a terrific impression on the curse
at Crystal Lake.
We also have some good shots back and
fourth with Clay approaching someone named Donnie working at a machine trying to talk to
him over the noise and then catching him
by surprise as he has good reactions.
There's a good worried reaction on Donnie going up in an attic and then spotting
his female dummy as he does well
caressing it. Then a great bumping
reaction with Jason grabbing him
and Donnie's shocked reaction
finding out what he looks like behind the
sack over his head with panicking
reactions towards him.
There's a good shot on Jason holding
a hockey mask in his hands and then
putting it over his head looking in a
mirror.
We spot a good scene with Nolan driving a motorboat with a good shot on Chelsea waterskiing topless. Then a
good shot on an arrow through Nolan's head. There's a nice shot on Chelsea trying to
flag down the boat and it run over her. Then a good shot on Jason standing on shore near some tree's
staring at her and then taking out his
machette with her freaking out and
swimming underneath a pier. Good shots on
her looking through the peep holes of the
pier with him walking around
which truly makes you afraid he will find
her.
There's some good conversations between Clay and Jenna while exploring
the woods at Camp Crystal Lake as well as
discovering Jason's house then hiding
underneath the house and spotting Jason himself holding a headless corpse which looked
very dark and creepy along with a shot on Jenna covering her mouth from
screaming.
There's great shots on the two on them
running in the forest.
We spot a very corny discussion between Trent and Lawrence getting
it on with one another and turning on a
camcorder.
A good shot on Jason throwing an axe towards Nolan when he's running away.
Good moment with Trent running towards a road and nearly hit by
a tow truck with the truck stopping just
sitting there and then he is slowly walking near the
vehicle being unsure of the driver as
there's a good hand coming out of the
window for him to come forward. Then a
good shot on the driver getting ready to get out of his
car and suddenly BAM! Jason strikes the two of them and the driver speeding
away with the corpse attached to his
truck. That moment was very chilling and
terrifically done.
There's a terrific scene with Jenna trying to free Whitney with her running in and telling
them that Jason is coming which causes
them to panic more keeping you peeled to
make see if they will make it out.
The ending is the scariest direction of
them all but I won't give it away.
Bottom line is that I
was looking forward to this flick and was
satisfied with it as they blend in little
bit of the original three movies (Like
Mrs. Voorhees only in the very beginning,
Jason wearing a sack over his head and
then finding his hockey mask along with
some teens staying in their own cabin
resort at Crystal Lake) but yet made the
storyline completely different. The story was a little too fast with what
is going on mainly having Jason come in
killing one after another but hey in
certain sequels like part 6 that was
normal. They did a good job on the cinematography
making Crystal Lake look dark and gloomy
too. There's plenty of adventureous moments
too with the Jason chasing after his
vicitms along with someone trapped in a
metal cell of some sort by Jason too
which is a different twist than the
original movies as Jason just kills
anything that's alive. Also Jason's old hideout looked better
desgined and was in fact his actual house
when his Mommy was alive with him showing
another new change too. The story also explains why Jason killed
cause a voice in his head tells him his
Mom wants to do so just like she did for
him.
The acting is not too
shabby as we have lead actor Jared Padalecki
(Clay Miller) as an outsider type looking for his
lost sister showing good upsetting
reactions and trying to keep calm. He
does well with his fearful actions and
pumped up energy too. Does very well trying
to tell everyone at the cabin there's a
killer out there in a certain scene.
Danielle Panabaker (Jenna) really brings a
terrific charm to her part in the film
trying to help this fellow out and knew
how to act fearful too. She brought out
alot to her part. She shows a great reaction answering a cabin door
inviting someone in as she
does well acting courteous.
Aaron Yoo (Chewie) seemed to know his part
out well playing a teenage clown and
brings the odd comedy to his part as well
as doing good acting intoxicated. We have some good blocking with him acting drunk and wobbling around
a garage.
Amanda Righetti (Whitney Miller) does the job with
her intensity and fears against Jason
along with her vengeaful aggressions and
can see her working in future horror
films along with psychological one's. There's a great screaming reaction on her being chained up in a dark
metal room and her pleading the Jason character not
to hurt her. A nice aggressive reaction on her when the Jason character is tied to a
grinding machine.
Travis Van Winkle (Nolan) played a perfect
sleazy bad ass and arrogant teen in the
film playing a total unlikeable character
in the film and really knew how to act
dominant too in his performance.
Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees) sure knew his part with his killing and
machette wielding throwings too like the
actors/stuntmen did in the original one's
plus knew how to run fast after his
vicitims too.
Arlen Escarpeta (Lawrence) played the
perfect lustful bimbo in the film which
we all needed in a Friday the
13th or any other slasher flick.
America
Olivo flashes her breasts in a tent
and is bare breasted while having sex.
Willa Ford is bare breasted while
water skiing.
Arlen Escarpeta is fully
breasted while having sex in bed at a
cabin briefly exposing her butt as well.
A head is quickly
chopped off
An ear is sliced off a teens head
Many stabbings with the machette in the
head or body
A headless body is carried by Jason
An arrow is shot in a guys head while
driving a motorboat
An axe is stabbed through a teen
Other brutal slayings and lots of blood
We have the perfect low
grinding synthesizer playing which sounds
very gloomy and similar to the music used
in the remake of The Hills Have
Eyes along with good cold
screeching sounds composed by Steve
Jablonsky. He puts on many other
dark sounds too and not the creepy
classical music used in the original
films.
There's a song called
"Sister Christian" by Night
Ranger which is used in a scene when
two campers are about to do a lustful
scene in their tent.
Clay:
Hey, I'm not from around here, but I'm
looking for my sister. She's gone
missing.
Jenna:
I hope you find her.
Trent:
Where the fuck are you, gun? |