Money flows in for the Unlucky Day!

I must say it was rather interesting for many people who celebrate the infamous V-Day also made sure to incorporate watching the intriguing remake of Friday the 13th.

So with this new installment we have a young man Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) who is searching for his missing sister (Amanda Righetti) in the legendary, spooky woods of Crystal Lake. And but of course he has been advised not to trek at this alone, but this movie would not exist if that did not happen. And we all pretty much know how the story goes along, folks start biting off a little more than they can chew. Thus resulting in entering in the trenches of the infamous killer, Jason Voorhees. if you really paid close attention one might see that this is borderline "reality tv", but hey who am I. Jason seems to be killing more as a sport versus revenge, if it was trying to compare to recent horror films (Saw and Hostel) it pretty much missed the mark. I can't really comment on the acting because there really was not any (probably intentionally so), but if i had to grade on the gruesome and somewhat scary killings they pretty much got the best award for that. As I think of this some more, I realize was this movie trying to attempt to be a good film or more so do its job of slashing and thrashing...You tell me...

Well all in all, it must have been a lucky day for the film Friday the 13th, it literally killed its competition by drawing in an estimated $42.2 million dollars this past weekend. Even still some things are meant to come to an end, you can only remake a movie so many times and it just be beaten like a dead horse. This was more so an attempt to follow along with the day and make a little money from it, quite convienent.

Grade: C


Did you Know? (Chicago Tribune)
In case you're not a learned "Friday" scholar you may wonder why it takes nearly half the movie for Jason to don his iconic hockey mask.
Answer: the burlap sack he sports through the first half is a nod to the killer's head-gear in "Friday the 13th Part 2." There, don't you feel smarter?