The new Friday the 13th is going to open with Jason as a legend in the Crystal Lake area. Five kids out in the woods looking for a bunch of weed they planted and stumble upon the deserted Camp Crystal Lake. Sitting around the fire that night, the dweeby one (there’s always a dweeby one) tells the legend of Jason Voorhees. After that the Survivor Girl and her boyfriend wander off into the woods, where they find a shitty old cabin. Inside are some clues, like a bed with the name Jason carved in it. An old picture of a girl who looks just like Survivor Girl.

And Mama Voorhees’ head.

Cue Jason. He murderizes the other four kids, and as he grabs Survivor Girl… slam into the opening credits.

This sounds like a terrific way to revive the series. We get right to the point, and it opens damn strong. From there the movie essentially becomes a rehash of the first four movies, but who is going to complain about that? One of the big changes is that the script attempts to explain some of Jason’s supernatural aspects - the script goes out of its way to specify that he’s a human being, not a zombie or a superman - including revealing that our favorite hockey masked killer has a series of hidden tunnels under the woods and the old camp, which is what allows him to pop up at the most inopportune moments.

To be honest, I never thought much of the original. At all really.

Bava's "Bay of Blood" was pretty close though.

same here Spud. I don't even see original F13 as good movie. Crappy direction and crappy acting, only good thing is gore. I think F13 is popular only because it was first true slasher movie. Halloween might be the first, but it's not actual slasher movie in my opinion. It's too dark, no gore or single drop of blood in the movie. But it started the era and F13 just defined slasher genre.

Indeed. You'll see A LOT of similarities between the two movies but Bay of
Blood was a good 7-8 years earlier. F13 is fun if you like the slasher genre
but I tend to agree with many above that it is not a great film.
As for remakes, I'm sick to death of them. Michael Bay seems to do
nothing but remakes. I think for people who have seen the originals, going
to see a remake the suspense of the plot is completely eliminated. Once
that is gone you are left with gore and special effects. Not that gore and
special effects are a is a bad reason to see a movie but it doesn't make a
good movie.

Also I agree that the original wasnt that great although the twist of the mother being the killer was cool

Oh that's meant to be a twist? I think there is a total lack of deception in the movie. I never thought that one of the teens could have been killing the others.