Anyway, back to F13! Too bad we aren't getting a movie this year, it's 2013 afterall. It would've been easy marketing. Not to mention there is a Friday the 13th in September which is a month before Halloween so it would've been even better marketing.
Totally agreed here. I could almost even accept a sequel to the Platinum Dunes
Friday The 13th remake, if it were to come out September 13, 2013. I didn't care much for the remake, as they had too many "cool kill shots" to be able to create any suspense, and it's the
suspense that makes for a good horror movie. Why is it that no one seems to be able to understand that anymore?
In a way, I'd much prefer it if we got a sequel to the original
Paramount timeline. Except they pretty much nuked the proverbial fridge when they brought Jason back as a zombie in
Jason Lives.
But I'd kinda like to see a "Survivors United"
Friday The 13th movie. Amy Steele and John Furey reprise their roles as Ginny & Paul (I know Paul was supposed to have died in Part 2, but I never interpreted the ending like that so screw it, he's alive). Dana Kimmel, the actress who played Chris in Part 3, reprises her role as Chris. Corey Feldman reprises his role as Tommy Jarvis from
The Final Chapter, as does Kimberly Beck the actress who played his sister Trish. Then Melanie Kinnamen, the actress who played Pam, and Shevar Ross, who played Reggie in
A New Beginning also reprise their characters from Part 5. If you
really want to maintain the whole "Zombie Jason" timeline, then you can even bring back Jennifer Cooke as Megan from
Jason Lives and Lar Park Lincoln's character Tina from
The New Blood (as well as the guy who played her boyfriend in that movie). I would just rather ignore the very existance of
Jason Takes Manhatten if that's okay with you. They return to Crystal Lake in order to "face their demons" and move on beyond their collective experiences with Jason. But Jason shows up and tries to take his revenge on all those who had defeated him in the past.
Throw in some horny, pot smokin', beer drinkin' teens as machete fodder and you've got yourself a movie!
Although, to be perfectly honest (and I can't believe I'm writing this myself), but I think that the truly best way to go is to have Paramount, Steve Miner, and Sean S. Cunningham do their own reboot of the franchise. Do a proper remake of the original, with Mrs Voorhees as the killer. Make enough changes so as to not be a frame by frame reproduction of the original (a'la
Psycho), but at the same time use enough classic kill shots that it's not an
entirely different movie. My vote is for the Kevin Bacon arrow through the neck scene. That has GOT to stay in. I'd also make a few minor changes to the new movie, improvements that were slightly overlooked in the original. For example, I'd have the actress playing Mrs Voorhees in the background in the coffee shop scene where Annie asks where Camp Crystal Lake is. I'd also have her jeep parked outside. One common complaint I've heard about the original is that it was too obvious that Betsy Palmer was the killer. That her character shows up out of nowhere in the last 20 minutes of the movie, so you're like "Okay, so
she's the killer", and the whole surprise is ruined. Just a simple little thing like having her in the cafe turning and looking at Annie as she mentions Camp Crystal Lake is all that's needed to fix this one minor problem.
If they do end up doing this, I'd like to see one of the original actors play a minor role in the new version. Maybe cast Kevin Bacon as Steve Christy. Or Adrienne King as Pamela Voorhees. Maybe Ari Lehman can play the motorcycle cop who was looking for Crazy Ralph, or even play Crazy Ralph himself (although I think that role should probably go to one of the other, older actors, like the guy who played Ned). Maybe even get Betsy Palmer to play the role of the woman working in the cafe who asks Enis to give Annie a ride to the crossroads.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Agree or disagree if you like.
