The 2009 version ofFriday the 13thhas found love in the streaming universe more than 10 years after its mixed-reception original release. By the time of writing, the Michael Bay-produced slasher horror remake has hacked its way to the top ofTubi’s most popular movies. Other titles in the free streamer’s top 10 include twoFridaymovies (the comedies without “the 13th” in the title),The Fast and the FuriousandThe Goonies.
Directed by Marcus Nispel and produced by Bay along with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form,Friday the 13this arevival of the slasher franchiselaunched in the 1980s with Sean S. Cunningham’s movie of the same name. The film starts as your average “teens go camping in the woods only to be met by Jason"kind of sequel, but then it turns into something else altogether. Per the official synopsis:
Follow the legend…beware the lake…run for your life! Jason Voorhees returns to the screen in a chilling and daring re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. The new terror begins as a group of college students disappear on a thrill-seeking trip to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake, a long forgotten mass-murder site that now rests deep in the overgrowth of an unforgiving woods. Now Clay Miller must find his missing sister. Against the advice of the locals, who claim a “presence” still lives within the camp, he ventures deep into the merciless forest and comes face to face with the personification of evil, the unrelenting killer Jason Voorhees! “Did you know a young boy drowned here? He was my son. And today is his birthday.”
Friday the 13th Movies in Order Chronologically and by Release Date
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It stars Danielle Panabaker, Jared Padalecki, Aaron Yoo, Willa Ford, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears as Jason. Upon release, the film made more than $92 million from a $19 million production budget and became one of the most financially successful films of theFriday the 13thfranchise.
However, the critical reception was not as good. It was panned by critics, and currently, it registers a 26% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Even though it was fairly successful at the box office, plans for a sequel were dropped, and then the franchise formally entered development hell due to rights issues that have only recently been resolved. Currently, there are plans to revive Jason once again witha television series titledCrystal Lake.
Is ‘Friday the 13th’s 2009 Remake the Best Among the Worst?
In the early 2000s, films likeThe Ringproved that horror remakes could be big business - even if they rarely held a candle to the originals. However, this was not a given, as movies such asThirteen GhostsandHouse of Waxwere new renditions of old movies that were slick in style but lacked the power of the original concepts. In “slasherland,” 2010’s version ofA Nightmare on Elm Street,coming a year afterFriday the 13th, seemed to be the finall nail in the coffin for the remake craze.
However, and as Tubi users have proven, there were exceptions. As much as critics and audiences were not in tune with it,2009’sFriday the 13this not exactly a bad movie. Coming after a dozen other movies to feature the machette-wielding killer of Crystal Lake, the film managed to deliver one of the best scripts of the lot, and included some creative kills to boot. As it stands, Friday the 13th was a remake that deserved more love than it received, and now it appears to be getting its dues.
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