Friday the 13th.

[jsbowden]

Is just another day, really, but there's a remake of the movie by the same name opening today as well it seems.

Except, it isn't.

I keep seeing the infamous hockey mask in the ads.

The hockey mask and the undead psycho killer (run run run away) didn't show up in the first movie. The original Friday the 13th isn't about Jason. He's just the poor kid who had to die to piss his mother off enough to kill anyone and everyone in the general vicinity as gruesomely as possible.

Quit fucking with my childhood you fucking gimps.

Comments

[prince-eric.livejournal.com]

Y'know, all those first movies were actually pretty good -- Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street.

It was only when they got into the near-endless stream of sequels that they went quickly to camp, and then even quicker to "Just fucking die already."

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

But without that trend we never would have gotten to Jason X, and thusly the world would be deprived of a priceless treasure!

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Don't make me hurt you.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Jason X was *brilliant*.

It was a comedy, not a horror movie, and not even a slasher movie. But it was still brilliant!

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

This is what I'm saying!

[sungo.livejournal.com]

Jason X truly was brilliant. The scene where he's trying to beat one cheerleader to death with the other cheerleader? Pure gold.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

The first Nightmare movie is fucking awesome. Johnny Depp before anyone knew who he was!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Friday The 13th had Kevin Bacon.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I always liked Nightmare more.

Of course, Friday the 13th had that wonderful sound bite...ch ch ch ch ch...ha ha ha ha ha. Although that may have been 2 and later...been so long since I've seen the original that I can't remember.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I think it was in 1, but my copy is on VHS and I'm totally not putting that in just to find it.

My main complaint about Nightmare 1 was the "OMG HE'S NOT DEAD" denouement was SO FAR over the top that it just wasn't cool, at all.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it had its merits, but I loathe it for giving me so many sleepless nights and nightmares.

When a movie's premise is that a monster attacks you *in your dreams* and you then go on to have extremely vivid dreams of said monster, it would then follow logically that said dreams are about to kill you, y'know?

*Not* fun.

And I never even *watched* the movie.