![]() ![]() Teenagers in the woods having sex, taking drugs and mouthing off, plus a hulking, remorseless killer doing them in. Doing it over again even competently should prevent critics from bleating the remake isn’t as good as the original. ![]() The 1980 Friday was a franchise-founding hit, but – despite sticking an arrow into young Kevin Bacon’s gullet – makeshift hackwork. As demonstrated by the enjoyable 3-D My Bloody Valentine and the Rob Zombie botch-job of Halloween, it’s easier to make a satisfying new version of something fondly-remembered-but- mediocre than to remount something truly classic. Mason in Friday the 13th: the Game was inspired by Violet.The big surprise about the new Friday The 13th is that it arrives so late in the remake-anything-scary-from-the-'70s-or-'80s cycle.
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