WHERE WAS JASON
THIS PAST FRIDAY THE 13TH?
by Chris Vegvary
Remember the 1980’s, when slashers and serial killers in
film were most relevant? I love most of those movies and consider them
classics, since that’s the stuff I grew up watching. Why can’t we get back to
that point? No one even has to say “It’s all remakes” anymore, because we all
know that by now. So when they remake a
film like Friday the 13th, like they did in 2009, you expect to see
a sequel soon after that. Well, it’s 2013, many Friday the 13th’s
have passed, most recently last week, and we’re still left without Jason
Voorhees. Why is that?
When’s the Last
Time We Saw Jason?
When Platinum Dunes, a company owned by Michael Bay, decided
to remake Friday the 13th in 2009, I was more than excited. I saw
the movie, and guess what? It met my expectations. That’s right, I really
enjoyed it. The movie is like a mash-up of the first four films in the original
movie series, before Jason became an unstoppable zombie-thing. A sequel was
planned at one point shortly after the remake was released, but apparently, no
one else in the movie-going public liked the film. I don’t understand what people
found wrong with it. It seemed like classic Friday the 13th-ery to
me. So here we are, four years later, another Friday the 13th just
passed us by, and still no word on the fate of Jason Voorhees
.
How Can We Make
Jason Relevant Again?
There are a number of ways, but I’ve only thought of a
couple. Feel this: If we wanted to stop the remakes and just make sequels to
the classic Friday the 13th movie series, we could take a bunch of
different characters from a bunch of different horror movies and toss them in a
ring (the world) together and see what happens. Some of that was done briefly
in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason, but I’m talking more. I want to see Freddy Krueger,
Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Candyman, the Tall Man from Phantasm,
Pumpkinhead, Pinhead, the Creeper from Jeepers Creepers, and Chucky all doing
battle against one another. Go all out or go home. Of course, if we want to
continue on doing the movies remake-style, then how about this: A Nightmare on
Elm Street and Halloween were also remade recently. So why not have Remake
Jason go up against Remake Freddy in a remake of Freddy vs. Jason? Only this
time, throw Remake Michael Myers in there against them. I would bet Jason
wouldn't have an easy time beating Rob Zombie’s version of Michael Myers.
That Sounds Terrible
Yeah, but at least I’m trying to figure things out. But
there you have it. That’s just a couple of ways the franchise could be
reinvigorated. Will we ever see a sequel to 2009’s Friday the 13th?
Hard to say. At this point, I wouldn’t bet on it until the rights go to someone
else. It seems like Platinum Dunes has this issue where they remake a classic
horror movie and then decide not to move forward with any sequels. Do we need
to step in and stop Platinum Dunes? My answer is: yes. They’ve already ruined
the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and now they refuse to make a sequel
to Friday the 13th. We need to take our movies back.
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