QUICK & DIRTY
REVIEW:
FRIDAY THE 13TH~! (2009)
By
Sean
Carless
Movie: FRIDAY THE
13th
YEAR:
2009.
STARRING: Jared Padalecki,
Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Reghetti, Derek Mears,Travis Van
Winkle, Rip Van Winkle, Willa
Ford.
RATED: R; For Violence, Tittays,
angry retards.
WARNING: Sean Carless does not review movies
like Roger Ebert. There are no literary refrences,
witty analogies and clever insight. Instead, replaced
therein is... well, you'll see. I'm the "people's"
movie critic. Just not any people you've ever met. You'll
thank yourself soon enough for
that.
[THE FOLLOWING AS ALWAYS IS
WRITTEN IN INSANE-STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RANTING. BE
WARNED.]
You know, most retards and
mongoloids are happy to just hang out at the bus station or
the fucking food court all day being a pest to everyone, but
not our friend Mr. Voorhees. No sir. With the exception of
Life Goes On’s Corky and maybe Forrest Gump, never before has
one retard so risen above his station and exceeded
expectations of what is and isn't possible in the world of
advanced learning disability. It’s true. Jason craves
more. Jason is not satisfied to wear his Dad’s pastel
blue pants pulled up to his nipples and Velcro shoes until
he’s 60.The same slime
covered cover-alls? Maybe. But do those cover-alls have
his name indelibly written in marker in the inside collar
just in case he ever loses them? NO. And that's
because Jason is his own retard.
You see, unlike his
collective mongoloid brethren, our friend Jason has decided to
give himself a purpose in life other than
eating glue-sticks and moronically
chatting to every single person that
passes by while he stocks tin cans in
the super-market. And sure, his “purpose” is savagely murdering teenagers in
the name of revenge for mother’s decapitation and
subsequent ruining of a perfectly good woolen powdered-blue cardigan turtleneck,
but at least the motherfucker’s being productive—and had
the dignity of not having his aged mother
dressing him well into his thirties like other disabled. Seriously.
Ever seen an impeccably dressed person with Down’s Syndrome?
Or even one that picks out their own clothes
at all? Of course not. Jason’s got a leg up there.
Literally. He just hacked it off.
Let’s face it; any which way you slice
it—with a machete or pick-axe—Jason Voorhees is a modern day
retard success story. Our boy’s marching to the beat of his
own drummer. Then killing him. Probably with said drums in a
comically ridiculous fashion. But hey, that’s why I love
him.
This takes us to FRIDAY
THE 13th, a re-imagining of the 1980 original by the
man (Marcus Nispel) who directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
re-make that saw Jessica Biel
running around in the tightest
clothing imaginable, and
holy shit, that’s enough for me—Chainsaws?
Killings? I
must have missed it! He totally had me at
hello.
But then, I inquired further. I discovered
that the film was produced by one MICHAEL BAY
. Now, I will
admit, when I heard Bay was attached to this product—and not
in the literal way I’d normally hope; wrapped in
chains floating at the bottom of the lake for eternity like Jason—I got
worried. I mean, how could I not? I all of a
sudden got the visual of the film’s protagonist being a grubby
marine JUST TRYING TO GET HOME TO SEE HIS BABY GIRL
FOR THE FIRST TIME~! Of course followed immediately by the big end-film payoff, where Jason chases the
surviving campers in a tricked out muscle-car whose horn
goes “ki-ki-ki, ma-ma-ma.” BUT MY GOD THE EXPLOSIONS. They'll make you
forget what you saw was well,
pretty much what you saw in EVERY FUCKING BAY MOVIE. There may
also be an oddly placed neurotic heavy-set black
man involved in the plot nonsensically, just to lighten the mood! But
man, his erratic behavior is HI-larious.
However, luckily for
us, we were spared. Although, there's probably some out there
who eat all their meals pureed for their own safety who'd
have likely found said scenarios awesome. Almost as awesome as untrained
miners somehow landing on a moving asteroid and
yet somehow not being sucked deep into the unending
void of space due to the trajectory!!!!
ALMOST. But hey, how else are
you going to save the Earth? Actual missiles and not cowboys
with no astronaut training? Maybe.
So, yes, there were no Bay
fingerprints here at all. None whatsoever. Hell, there was even
nudity. Seriously!
Actual titties! I mean, Michael
Bay always hires the hottest women for his movies, but
they never gear down. Never.
And I’m always left sitting there
awkwardly holding my penis going ‘what the fuck!’. Then of
course apologizing to the rest of the people in the Theater
before the police are called. Come on, people! It’s dark! How
much could you really see? I mean, sure, I’m
standing in the aisle without pants, but that’s no excuse. Masturbation
is just nature’s way of saying “Hey, here’s my penis. And
this is what I’m doing with it.” How dare
you impede on such a natural moment between man and penis
and perhaps an oversized novelty popcorn bag.
So, this takes us to the
movie at hand. A pretty fair take on the original series, only
condensed and homogenized for today’s bug-light
attention-spanned youth. Not that it needed it too badly,
however. Because I must warn you, continuity is to Friday
the 13th films as "laughs" and "not sucking" are to
the Epic/Superhero/Disaster movies. It's true. I mean, take
Friday the 13th
Part 2 for example. Jason's rocking a pretty good Lo-Pan special as
far as hair
goes...then just 24 hours later in Friday the
13th Part 3, buddy's somehow found a Gillette and some
gel, and gotten himself a pretty nifty haircut. (and
put on 30 pounds). I'd have hated
to be that barber.
But hey, that’s not all! Hell, Friday's
2, 3 & 4 are only supposed to be literally days apart,
so by the time Friday 4 is over, we're at like Monday the
16th. And that shit just sounds silly! I think! (Note to teenagers;
you might want to put off camping until, I don’t know, the
20th? Just saying.).
Plus... in Friday the
13th Part 8, somehow a simple lake-cruise ends up
in the fucking
Atlantic Ocean.
That's some sweet nature-defying segue there. Almost
as sweet as being returned to childlike form after being
melted by toxic waste...then somehow regaining full-adult
decomposed form by the next film...in which you’re blown
up...then puked into different bodies via miniature demons.
(Don't ask.).
So, yes, continuity is
forgiven. And forgotten. With drugs. Lot's of them.
The film opens up with a
quick & dirty of the actual first film, where Pamela
Voorhees annihilated a group of teenagers with the most
unfortunate sweater imaginable. But not this
time. Now she’s younger and infinitely more
hittable. Or even hittable, since
the original Mrs. Voorhees
in 1980 was like a mixture between Mr. Rogers and dehydrated
apple doll. In this version, Mrs.
Voorhees is played by Start Trek Deep Space Nine's Nana
Visitor. (her brother Grandad Housegust couldn't make it). Man.
Captain Sisko is going to be so pissed.
Anyhoo, Mrs. V is all racked
with some retroactive rage over her son drowning when teenaged
camp counselors were ALL fucking instead of watching a lone
mongoloid take a midnight dip. Ya, though choice there.
Corky’d have hit the lake floor on my watch, too. But that
said, what camp exists where everyone’s getting laid
constantly? And holy shit, is 32 too old to be a counselor?
‘Cause come on. The highlight of my counselor career saw me
turn over the same fat kid who kept capsizing in his
fiberglass canoe, not getting the sweet stuff nightly. I feel
gypped.
So, ya, Mrs. Voorhees is a
little angry and murders everyone—but that shit goes south
fast, because her last victim turns the table and decapitates
her with a machete. You know how it is.
This of course is
witnessed by her suddenly non-drowned living son, Jason, who
emerges from the bushes seconds later to share a tender moment
with Mom’s dome, and pick up the machete. GREAT TIMING,
JAY. You picked a
pretty opportune time to suddenly show up. You know, A LOT of
trouble could have maybe been avoided had you just revealed
yourself to Mommy like one day before. “Ya, by the way Mom, I’m
still alive. You don’t need to murder teenagers now. I’m like
ok.” I’m telling you.
Of course, this is assuming that Mrs.
Voorhees was not aware that Jason was alive. Because if she
was, holy shit, what a stickler!
Being hired as her babysitter must have been a REAL PAIN.
One night, you let Jason eat an extra pudding or stay up
an extra 10 minutes, and bam! Suddenly you and all your
friends are missing a few appendages. That's hardly worth the ten dollars. 15?
Maybe then I'd be willing to lose an arm. I only need one
anyway.
Oh, and here’s a
question? How did one loan mongoloid boy carrying a severed head
go undetected in the scene of a huge grisly murder?
Especially since buddy's house is like maybe fifteen feet from the crime
scene? God bless the crack detectives of Crystal Lake!
Anyway, this was supposed to
be 1980, and we flash to “present day” and a
new group of teenagers setting up camp in the middle of
the woods. Which, leads me to the question, of ALL THE WOODS,
why do teenagers keep camping here? How is that people have
not clued in that maybe, just maybe, this is not a reasonable
place to erect a tent? Two words, motherfuckers: GOOGLE MAPS.
Save yourself a lot of grief.
That said,
the teenagers in question are two hot chicks, two dudes,
and one loser. And the big plot device in this moment is that
there is a crop of cannabis in the area, just ripe for
stealing and in turn selling! Seems like a solid plan. I
wonder if Matthew McConaughey has a cottage up this way. It’d
make sense. "Do you have a machete? It's be a
lot coooooler if ya did."
From there, adult Jason
is waiting to systematically annihilate them in short order;
but not before we get our first nude scene! Hey, since when do
17 year old girls have breast implants? And where can I meet
them?
The first victim is of course the one dude
who doesn’t get laid. Isn’t that always the way. To me, these
poor schmoes are the real victims
of the
franchise. Because, sure, their friends get killed, too, but
at least they get to shuffle off this mortal coil with
significantly emptier balls than what they started with. Nothing doing for these
poor hapless bastards, though. They get to die for simply
being nerdy, undersexed and generally ridiculous. Which would be a death
sentence for all of my readers, AMIRITEORWHAT? High five!
What?
The couple fucking in the tent gets
Jason-ized next, with Implants McGee being grabbed in her
sleeping bag and held over the fire by Jason. Huh. I’d have
never pegged Jason to have the patience for S’mores. Her
boyfriend of course then does what any
boyfriend
would do in that situation, he chivalrously runs away into the
woods, but uh oh, BEAR-TRAP. I hate when that
happens.
Meanwhile, the other couple, Whitney
(the female protagonist) and her boyfriend hike the area and
find Jason’s house. Hey, look, there’s his bed which says
“Jason” on it. You know,
just in case you can't figure out that the only
lived-in cabin in the area just might belong to the asshole
killing everyone like 50 feet away. Buddy’s also not the best
house-keeper in the world, what can I say. But this shit still
looks better than my Apt. after I first moved out, so
kudos. Even if the heads I keep in my closet shrine are a
little more presentable.
With that in mind, yes, Whitney finds
Mrs. Voorhees severed head in a closet. Which I must say is
holding reasonably well for 30 years of
open-air decomposition. Mrs. Voorhees must have
exfoliated A LOT.
From there, Whitney then finds a locket,
which she opens to reveal a woman’s face that her boyfriend
tells her that she resembles. WARNING: MAJOR PLOT
DEVICE. She then puts it on, ‘cause there ain’t no
ubiquitous woolen sweater laying around. (‘Cause Lord, knows,
when a teenage girl puts on my Mom’s sweaters, I’m like “holy
shit, suddenly 17 year old hot Mom, is that you?”).
Jason then of
course returns home, and does what we’ve all
done when we have unwanted visitors (not
Nana); he hides under the floor boards and attempts
to impale them. That'll teach the Jehovah’s Witnesses
that no means no!
In the ensuing chaos, the
boyfriend of course eats the machete and gets
dragged down by Jason and finished off. RULE #1 OF FRIDAY
MOVIES:
Jason does not believe in monogamy! The person
you come into
Crystal Lake
with in a relationship ain’t the dude you’re leaving
with— if you leave at all! But no worries; you strangely get
over that shit unnaturally fast in horror movies! “New love”
has a way of making you forget all the horrors you’ve
witnessed! You may even have time for light joking and cute
banter immediately after you kill your antagonist! I don’t
make the rules.
After parting with her
boyfriend (umm, literally), Whitney runs back to camp, locket
in-tow, where she now sees her friend locked in a bear trap,
and her girlfriend on fire in a sleeping bag…which she doesn’t
even bother to fully put out. Smokey’s gonna be pissed.
(But alive, ‘cause Dude’s occupying the
bear-trap!).
Bear-trap dude then begs to be freed from
said trap from there, to which Whitney tries to
oblige, but holy shit, here comes Jason Voorhees with a 4 second
forty yard dash. He’s like Carl Lewis. Only white. And invincible.
And ya. Jason then plunges the machete right into the guy’s
head, and YES, RUBBERIZED HEAD MOMENT~! Sometimes the classics still
work, damn it. It's up there for me with Rubber
Travolta in Broken Arrow, which will forever be the Citizen kane of
shitty unmoving rubber-death dolls.
This just leaves Whitney vs.
Jason, who’s rockin’ a sweet cycloptic pillowcase over his
face. This guy must’ve been a fucking bust at
Halloween. The scene then ends before Whitney’s presumed
demise. AMBIGUITY~!
Fast forward six
weeks. New teenagers; three hotties, and four dudes. Fourth dude obviously failed
at math. Some friends. You always
make sure there are
equal parts chicks/dudes. That’s the first rule of being a
dude. Sometimes even numbers
gets you laid. Other times it’s lots and lot’s of alcohol. And
if you’re me, it’s all of the
above.
As for our new
batch of nubile teenagers, we have the vapid hotties, Bree
& Chelsea; the sweet and demure girlfriend Jenna (Danielle Panabaker,) her asshole boyfriend,
Trent
, another mop-headed
douchebag; a token black guy (Lawrence); and a toking Asian
(Chewie!)-- what he lacks in sex appeal and presence he
makes up for in weed and well-timed annoying comebacks!
Oh, he's so dead. FRIDAY
RULE # 2:
YOU CAN NEVER BE NERDY OR FUNNY AND
EXPECT TO LIVE. If you're a dude and you survive, you
must be misunderstood and dangerous~! And strangely carry a
backpack everywhere.
Now, I could give you the
rest of the plot blow by blow, but you know what? Fuck you. I
paid 10 bucks, you didn’t. You’re getting the quick and dirty
from here on in.
Enter Brooding, handsome
stranger Clay Miller, (Jared Padalecki) who’s on the lookout
for his still-missing sister Whitney. He runs into Jenna &
Trent in a corner store whilst handing out pamphlets of
said sister. Of course, there is an instant attraction between
Jenna & Clay, because as mentioned, Trent is
an asshole. Which leads to FRIDAY RULE # 3: If you're a douchebag, you will die...horribly...
however, you'll likely get laid by a hotty first. As
mentioned, Nerds get no such luck in movies. Because, you
see, even in death, the odds are always stacked in the
prick's favor. Ah, god bless horror movie cliches. The
only place where a chick learns that her current beau is a
cocksucker and guys like
him are not worth dating only after nearly every one of her friends
get annihilated first.
Clay carries on his quest
from there, making his way to a dirtball mechanic, who is no
help…to him…but luckily for Jason (after slashing his throat)
he just happens to have a goalie mask lying around in the
middle of a garage...in the middle of the woods. Makes sense.
You never know when a full game might break out in the depths
of the forest, necessitating the proper gear.
Anyway, long
story short, the whole motley crew now head back to Trent’s
cabin, but somehow Clay ends up knocking on the door there,
too, looking for his sister. Trent gives him the gears
again, so Jenna decides that she’ll go with him and help him
on his quest, and not just because his plight is a WHOLE LOT
MORE APPEALING ‘CAUSE MOTHERFUCKER’S ALL DREAMY AND SHIT.
Seriously. I’d like to see what would have happened if Clay
was morbidly obese and balding and had a hare-lip. “Ya, I
know nothing’s changed; your sister is still missing and all,
but come on, you’re just not hunky enough for me to help you
aimlessly search for her. Come back when you’re all 6'3"
and hair and teeth and I’ll share your
moped.”
While Jenna & Clay ride
off on his motorcycle, moppy-headed douchebag and Chelsea
head out to the lake. And it must be said. The 1980’s tributes
continue, because thus far, almost every asshole in this
movie is rocking the same unfortunate do’s they had during the
first movies in the early 80’s. HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING
IN 30 YEARS? No
one goes to the hairdresser’s and asks “Make me look like
He-Man.” Jesus Christ.
Speaking of the AWESOME 1980's, NOTHING will ever touch Friday
the 13th Part 3's sweet Disco remix. Can't you just
picture Jason cutting a rug~?!...then wrapping up a
dismembered body in it...
Once at the lake, Chelsea and
MHDB go out for some COMPLETELY REALISTIC TOPLESS
WAKE-BOARDING. YES~! Titty sighting number two! Funny, I can
never seem to get anyone to take their top off whenever I go
boating. Maybe because I’ve only went with family members. Maybe. Still worth a
shot, though.
Anyway, Jason is SO not a fan
of extreme sports, so he shoots moppy-headed douchebag through
the head with a bow and arrow from the shore, and Chelsea is
left to swim her way back after wiping out minutes earlier
(good thing she has own in-built floatation devices! I’m not
going to say she’s packin' a little plastic upstairs, but
all of a sudden my 1982 Skeletor figure is lookin’ pretty au
natural.).
With that in mind, it must be
said. WHY WOULD ANYONE HAVE EVER PICKED ON THIS DUDE AT
CAMP? Jason's has skills, and he has access to more weed
than anyone not named Cheech or Chong I’ve ever met. I would
have totally hung with the guy in high school. I’d have just
hid the silverware.
From there,
Chelsea
attempts to make her escape by swimming under the dock, but
ultimately gets shish-kabobed through the skull by
Jason’s machete. See, this is where I’d have cast, say Paris
Hilton. If only for her to just shrug her shoulders and
triumphantly state “missed me” when Jason penetrates her
brain. But hey, that’s just me.
Meanwhile, Jenna & Clay
are continuing their elusive sister search when they come
across my favorite FRIDAY STAPLE: The crazy old coot! Every horror movie
usually has them. They’re the conscience of the story, with a
foreboding message to leave now~! They’re always conspicuously
filthy as well. THERE AIN’T TIME FOR BATHING WHEN THERE'S THEM
THERE TRUTH TO SPREAD.
Anyhoo, said coot tells Clay
that his sister’s not missing…she’s dead.
Always the optimist.
This leads Clay & Jenna
out to the woods again where they find Jason’s shack, and we
learn that Whitney is in fact STILL ALIVE, secretly held
captive in a fully lit, booby-trapped bunker with bells and
whistles below the ground. So, what, Jason pays a fucking
electric bill? Collecting on that has to be interesting.
God bless this franchise. Our
aforementioned friend continuity has no-showed
again. Seriously.
So, what, Jason can create elaborate traps, wire a bunker with
electricity and set up a bell system to identify intruders,
but he can’t fashion himself a mask out of anything other than
a fucking pillowcase? And where exactly does a seven foot dude
who’s been living in the woods by himself for 29 years even
find coveralls and boots that fit his gigantic frame? Maybe
Jay rolls into town and robs the Big & Tall & Undead
on weekends? Who knows.
Anyway, Jenna and
Clay spot Jason coming “home” carrying a series of dismembered
bodies over his shoulder in sacks, so they
hide under the cabin until they make their getaway.
Jason then continues down into his aforementioned bunker where he responsibly
disposes of the bodies to the horror of
the chained-up Whitney. Man, it’s like his own
version of recycling! I had no idea Jason was green! Imagine
what he’d do to you if you had the audacity to not
bundle your newspapers or wash out your tin cans! Seriously. Add a few beheadings
to the mix, and I guarantee you EVERYONE starts recycling.
That said, whilst Jason is
busy separating the corpses into their according blue bins,
Whitney rummages through a gym bag that Jason left behind to
discover that it belongs to Clay due to the endless
photocopies of herself in there. She then finds a busted GPS,
and uses the wire inside to try and escape, but she is stymied
by Jason who only stops the inevitable hurtin’ when he notices
Mommy’s locket around her neck. Man. For a dude who thinks
this teenaged girl is Mom, he sure treats her pretty poorly. I
just usually save Mom’s torture and leg-irons for the
holidays, myself. You know, when it’s special.
It’s now time to weed through remaining
douchebags! The clock is ticking. Back at the cabin, the
remaining meat puppets all dance and get stoned. The Tokin’
Asian, Chewie, accidentally breaks Trent’s table and
heads out to the shed—and not the Millennium Falcon
(Mirrennium Farcon?)— to look for tools to repair it post
haste, whilst Trent himself goes off to secretly fuck Bree,
and the lone dude, Lawrence, attempts to jerk off to the SEARS
catalogue (a moment I too can relate to…. much to chagrin of
the ladies working at the in-store pickup area! What? Am I
doing it wrong?).
Whilst in the shed, Chewie
meets his unfortunate end when Jason commandeers a screwdriver
and plunges it into Chewie’s throat—which on the bright side
is at least a second hole to stick the bong hose. That said, in honor of
his name, would it be too much to ask that his last-minute
gurgle resemble a Wookiee call? I mean, really?
Anyway, back at the cabin,
masturbating
Lawrence
(that’ll I call
Hand-Solo in honor of his disposed friend in the shed) is
confronted by a returning Jenna & Clay, who come to warn
them about Jason. I’d have still finished myself. Nature’s
already taken its course. You can’t bottle that shit
now.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Bree
rides
Trent
like a buckin’ bronco,
and we get tit-shot number 3, and in my ever-so-humble
opinion, they are spectacular. They get one thumb up, and one
hand occupied, in my book—a book whose pages are all stuck
together! You know because I’m jerking off! And destroying the
subtlety of this joke just because I feel like it!
Ya!
Jenna tries to bang on the
door from there, but Trent is preoccupied with,
well banging Bree. This guy is all kinds of subtle when it
comes to lying to his own girlfriend about infidelity. “Fuck
off!” is not the approach I’d use when
confronted with being unfaithful, but hey, whatever works,
right?
Anyway, with Chewie still
missing, Lawrence gets antsy, and goes
outside to look for him, much to the chagrin of Jenna &
Clay. And I agree completely. Come on, bro. Use your
head. You’re black. This is a horror movie. Unless your last
name is umm, Cool J? this shit never works out for your race! By my
count, the only black person to ever survive Jason was in Part
5, and that shit wasn’t even legit Jason! I’d call racism on
this, but come on. There’s nothing remotely racist about a
white dude hiding his face with a sheet whilst hunting black
people in the middle of the night. Ahem.
Lawrence
then ends up finding Chewie’s corpse, and runs back to
the cabin as fast as he can—however, Jason is waiting and
breaks out his own record breaking sprint and follow-up axe
toss which of course hits our token black guy in the back
with pinpoint accuracy (Let me axe you a question!). The
message here? A dude who’s lived at camp for 30 fucking years is
going to master the horse-shoes and ring toss, so you don’t
have a chance. Just give up now.
At this point everyone is
panicking in the cabin as
Lawrence
begs outside,
axe-end still embedded in his back. Jason however humanely
puts him down by picking him up and slamming him down on the
ground so the end fully penetrates his body. He’s like a
gentle angel of mercy!
Back inside,
Trent
goes upstairs and gets a gun, which, for whatever reason, Clay
takes offense at. “A gun?” he asks incredulously, almost
offended like it was the worst idea ever. Ya, ‘cause the whole
“running aimlessly for your life through the woods unarmed”
approach has been working out gangbusters so far.
Jason makes his way into the
house from there, and Bree gets it upstairs in the bathroom
when Jason rams her back-first into a pair of strategic
antlers mounted on the wall. Oh god, that’s just horrible. I
mean, Antlers on a bathroom wall? Who told them that looked
good?
The one local police officer
arrives next, armed with a flashlight with ZERO backup. Hey,
let’s just pretend we haven’t established that 5 teenagers
have already disappeared and the townsfolk pretty much know
who’s responsible. What’s the worst that could happen today?
Turns out the worst that could happen is our boy-in-blue
getting stabbed through the eye by Jason. The only thing
missing to hammer this scene home is his dying words of “I only had one more day
to retirement!” Oh well.
Outside, Trent, Jenna &
Clay all scramble feverishly looking for their car keys but
nothing doing. You know, some
people put their keys in their pockets. But hey, why do that, when
you can just leave them in the ignition and hope for the
best in the throws of ultimate tragedy? Obviously.
Anyway, after magnanimously declaring
that Jenna should just leave Clay to die,
Trent now
goes running off into the
woods by himself, with Jason in pursuit.
After dropping his gun in a
pond,
Trent
makes his way to the
road where a Tow-truck ominously stops and waves him over. For
a split second, I question if Jason is actually
full-retard-savant and is actually driving this truck. But my
answer comes when
Trent
is grabbed from
behind and slammed on
a tow-hook as the truck speeds off with him still
attached. My first honest question flooding my mind from there
was: does that count as a tow? Because if I was his family,
I think I’d haggle the price given the circumstances. But hey, that’s
just me.
Meanwhile, Clay & Jenna are now seen
on the run as
well; and what better place to seek shelter than the very same house
belonging to the very same killer that you already fled in terror
from just an hour earlier? ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH? Probably. But
hey, what do I know? THIS TIME THINGS COULD BE DIFFERENT. They just
won't be.
This of course allows Clay to *finally*
discover the hidden tunnel and free his sister! They share a
moment, but unfortunately, Friday’s RULE
# 4
is
in effect! There can only be one man and one woman allowed to battle
Jason in the film’s finale, so good-bye, Jenna. Poor girl.
She didn’t even break any horror rules! She was sweet,
she never had sex, never showed her breasts, and was helpful! If only Whitney
had fucked her boyfriend in the opening scene, Jenna could
have lived. Oh well.
The final pursuit takes our
reunited siblings to a car garage. And only in Friday
movies will you find all sorts of blunt weapons of
death in said garage like machetes and sickles. If it was
say, my garage, Jason's only weapon of choice would be a
giant pair of rubberized knee-high green fishing boots and
perhaps a series of conveniently stacked cardboard boxes
filled with magazines. THE HUMANITY.
Jason & Clay battle it
out from there in this dimly lit garage, and in the ensuing
madness the WOOD CHIPPER starts. This can’t end well. With Jason seemingly
having Clay’s number, it is now time for Whitney to play the
Mommy factor. She pulls out the locket and calls to him,
telling him that 'he can stop now'. She only tries this now?
This shit could have been REAL handy six weeks ago,
bitch!
Jason of course gets
all goo-goo-eyed and distracted in the interim, buying Clay
time to recover. I personally blame this distraction on
her wet clingy top myself and not her persuasive method acting
abilities, but hey, I'm no director!—well, unless you count
the secret films I make from tree tops through windows! Shhhh.
Our little secret! ;).
Anyway, with both of these
distractions to Jason—since let's face it, the only
head
this
dude gets is in a closet surrounded by candles—this
allows Clay to grab a trusty BEAR TRAP, (because they are after all
very applicable to automobile repair!) and plunge it
into Jason’s back, before wrapping a chain around his neck, which
then hangs him, before becoming snared in the wood-chipper which
sucks Jason in—but not before Whitney stabs him in the chest, and
utters our payoff line of “Say Hi to Mommy…
in Hell!”
Jason then responds surprisingly, “Actually,
Mommy was a devout follower of Christ, and by proxy was
forgiven for her sins and now resides comfortably in paradise
as per the very rules of the religion. Nice try, though.” It
just sounded like indifferent silence. Trust me. I’ve got
great ears.
The film then concludes with Clay & Whitney
dumping his corpse off the pier. YES, the pier. “ HEY WHITNEY,
NO ONE WILL EVER FIND THE BODY HERE JUST TWO FEET OUT FROM
THE DOCK.”
And oh ya, Jason’s still
alive and explodes through thee dock for the final scream. I
was hoping for a Scooby-Doo ending myself; a rubber mask
revealing the old woman from earlier. “And I’d have gotten away
with it, too, if not for you meddling kids!” But you know,
that might just be me.
So, what have we learned here today kids?
I’ll tell you. DON’T MESS WITH JASON VOORHEES’
STASH.
Think about it. All the shit started going down when buddy
at the beginning fucked with Jason’s crop. What else is an
inbred retard giant going to do in the middle of buttfuck nowhere?
Those kids had it coming, clearly. It also explains to me how
he survived drowning. Taking on a bowl helps you hold your
breath like no one’s business. So, ya, there you go. Jay’s a
big-time mover and these kids fucked up his whole grow
operation. But maybe it’s for the best. Pot’s a small-time
business. Jason needs to think bigger. This
time next year: CAMP CRYSTAL METH~! Or maybe not.
That all said, I think this
film gets my patented Seal Of
Approval. It satisfied my quotient for everything I look for in
a movie. Clean cut good looking people being annihilated?
Check. Gratuitous nudity? Check. Retard savants not seen since
Rain Man? (Gotta kill someone at K-Mart! K-Mart!).
Double-check.
What more could you want? An actual explanation as to
how Jason survived the lake, and just how a mongoloid hermit
managed to come up with a deposit for his Hydro bill? Maybe.
Regardless, for me, this one
gets two thumbs up. And maybe another appendage every time
that Bree chick was on screen.
COMING SOON~! More FRIDAY THE
13TH RE-IMAGININGS! KIND OF!



I’m Sean.
Sean Carless is a man of many hats. And he wears
those hats to cover an ever-increasing bald spot. Sean's
various scribblings have been read at Live Audio Wrestling,
411 Mania, Wrestlecrap, Honky Tonk Man.com, The Toronto
Star.com, and Lethal Wrestling. He has also cured AIDS.
Credit: Ernest Goes To Camp
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Yup.