2009’s “Friday The 13th” isn’t really so much a remake of the first film but a remake of the first several films as the series’ antagonist, Jason Voorhees, wasn’t the killer until the second picture and didn’t wear his iconic hockey mask till the third outing. There have been several slasher remakes but I saw this one because I thought that perhaps “Friday The 13th” was the series that could benefit the most from a bigger budget and a new crisp look but this version is somehow even worse than the earlier films that inspired it.

As you’re probably aware, the “Friday The 13th” franchise centres around hordes of teens being murdered. This 2009 entry features them being killed by axes, arrows, knives and a whole ton of other instruments of death.

Jason Voorhees starts the picture with a sack on his head before discovering the hockey mask and that’s about the most character development he gets. An initial group of teens are brutally killed during the first act of the film and just when you thought that they were the most obnoxious teens you’d ever seen; some even more obnoxious teens show up and then the next two acts have Jason offing them.

“Friday The 13th” was a bad movie but its 2009 remake is truly painful to sit through. I hoped a bigger budget could mean that you could get a cast that was tolerable and that it would also mean that intelligent writers could turn Jason into a cold and calculating adversary but I was too optimistic. I should’ve realised that there is no hope for “Friday The 13th” no matter how much money you chuck at it. The idea was lifeless and while some of the films have had their moments, the remake surely must mean the end. Again, that could be too optimistic because there always seems to be a market for these films and there always seems to be a filmmaker looking to get some easy money.