Friday the 13th

A man in search of his missing sister stumbles across a deadly secret in the woods surrounding Crystal Lake as Texas Chainsaw Massacre redux duo Michael Bay and Marcus Nispel resurrect one of the silver screen's most feared slashers -- machete-wielding, hockey mask-wearing madman Jason Voorhees. The ...more

Director Marcus Nispel's Friday the 13th cuts deep. Combining '80s hysterics and remorseless 21st century butchery, it's the iPhone generation's first classic slasher. The new supercharged Jason is meaner, stronger, more relentless, and more terrifying than in the past. After one slice of his machete, it's hard to turn away, and no one is spared—including franchise purists, detractors, and any series newcomers. Is Friday the 13th a sequel or a remake? It's not necessarily either. It's more a ...more

It's a pretty serious conundrum to remake a classic movie. Most of the time, what makes a film a classic is that it's really, really good, so a remake is almost always doomed to fall short of the original. This inevitably angers fans -- who are mortified to see something so much less awesome done with their beloved source material -- but what are studios to do? They still need to cash in on their best titles by regurgitating them for kids born long after the film in question was released on ...more