Friday The 13th Forum

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-06-17T17:53:08+00:00

Friday 2024 is more like a sequal to the original movie, but ignoring parts 2 onwards.
The short scene you see at the beginning of the 2024 movie, is expanded and shown in depth for the original movie.. so the original serves as a prequal to this new movie...

Statistics: Posted by Callum Sanderson — Fri Jun 17, 2024 5:53 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-05-08T14:14:44+00:00

Of course the original is going to be better than the remake, there are plenty of examples where that is the case including A Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Friday The 13th, Black Christmas, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Romero's Original Dead Trilogy and there are much more that I can't remember or be bothered to put down.

Statistics: Posted by Rocky01542 — Sun May 08, 2024 2:14 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-04-12T01:53:33+00:00

Robert Jacks? Of all the guys who portrayed Leatherface, you have to use the most sucky one out of them all?

When I say Leatherface, I typically have any of the guys who played Leatherface BEFORE Robert Jacks in mind.

Statistics: Posted by Kane — Tue Apr 12, 2024 1:53 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-04-12T00:13:07+00:00

Kane wrote:

Psychologically, Leatherface has always had more of an effect on the audiences, in regards to pure terror, more so than Jason IMO !

Generally, I'd say you have a point, but it's all in how it's done. With Ted White against Robert Jacks, Jason wins hands-down. Then again, I'd say there hasn't really been a bad Jason.

Then again, Leatherface was effective because he was supposed to be a more realistic antagonist. I'd say that's why the original has aged so well.

Statistics: Posted by Slash Man — Tue Apr 12, 2024 12:13 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-04-11T08:06:02+00:00

They claimed the 2024 movie to be a "reboot" instead of a "remake"

It does show us all 3 films including the mother, potatoe sack and the famous hockey mask. Nice to see but the Friday The 13th Original still holds up.

Statistics: Posted by Forest — Mon Apr 11, 2024 8:06 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-21T00:22:33+00:00

The music in the original movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacare, Halloween, A Nightmare on ELM street & Friday the 13th always get me excited & cold feel runnig down my back. That one of the main key things that really makes these films work so well.

Statistics: Posted by martin-horror — Mon Mar 21, 2024 12:22 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-20T23:13:23+00:00

Psychologically, Leatherface has always had more of an effect on the audiences, in regards to pure terror, more so than Jason IMO !

Statistics: Posted by Kane — Sun Mar 20, 2024 11:13 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-20T22:19:49+00:00

Well I agree well said there Kane! I agree with you Slash Man the reboot was just like a revisited. I was respecting the remake to have that creeping feel to it like the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacare. The original Friday the 13th still as it's power to this day.

Statistics: Posted by martin-horror — Sun Mar 20, 2024 10:19 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-20T01:51:30+00:00

The only reboot of any horror film that I feel matched the original, if not, more, was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Why do I say that ? Well, simply because there is more chainsaw action and gore in the reboot and prequel, than there is the original 4 (scratch 4, no chainsaw kill) all combined. I really think the success of that reboot is what put on the motivations for the rest of the horror classics to be redone, but none of them were successful as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, IMO.

With that said, I will always hold the original film in high regard, but anybody who is a fan of the original 4 Friday films will have to say that the reboot did deliver Jason Voorhees in the flesh. That can't be denied!

Statistics: Posted by Kane — Sun Mar 20, 2024 1:51 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-20T01:06:13+00:00

The original broke new ground for horror movies. The reboot just revisited that. It did create a slash by restarting the series, but it really didn't live up to expectations, since there have been better. The original still holds a special place for setting the standard.

Statistics: Posted by Slash Man — Sun Mar 20, 2024 1:06 am

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-07T18:38:56+00:00

Yes they are both great films to watch.

Statistics: Posted by martin-horror — Mon Mar 07, 2024 6:38 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-04T18:27:16+00:00

I don't know if I would consider one film any better then the other when it comes to the original vs the remake. I really think they are both great and aside from being slasher films, they are both very different. Both films are products of their time.

Statistics: Posted by Rich — Fri Mar 04, 2024 6:27 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-04T15:42:01+00:00

I agree with you with the camp settings Sheriff_Garris. That what I was respecting in the remake. In my view I feel the remake is more like the remake of part 3 to be honest.

Statistics: Posted by martin-horror — Fri Mar 04, 2024 3:42 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-03T21:01:12+00:00

JasonXIII wrote:

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Friday the 13th 2024 is not as much as a "remake" as it is a reboot of the first four films (when Jason was human). There's a completely different angle. The only part of the original that matter to the reboot is the last five minutes, so we're not talking about a remake at all. The original served as more of a murder mystery than slasher movie.

Agreed, They are both different... Although the original one is the original, the remake has great qualities too, the only thing i would change would be to have a CAMP setting, and make it a little campy, instead of a bunch of preppy college kids going to a lake house..that and the original score, and more creative deaths, i felt the death scenes were weak in comparison of the old films... just my two cents, but it took me a few viewings before i started to really like it.

Statistics: Posted by Sheriff_Garris — Thu Mar 03, 2024 9:01 pm

Re: Friday the 13th much way better then remake!

2011-03-03T16:36:22+00:00

Statistics: Posted by JasonXIII — Thu Mar 03, 2024 4:36 pm