Well-made? Really?
I mean, they used good cameras…
But nah. That movie stunk.

Isn't the point of remakes of past successful franchises to reboot said franchises so they can make more movies and more money off the brand? Somebody's going to get fired from this.

bummer, big time bummer

This doesn't make any sense. If you ask me, the rebirth of Freddy had a whole hell of a lot to do with the success of the of this film. Why pull the plug? Unless they want to do a "re-boot". You know, put Jason back at Camp Crystal Lake for the summer and focus on the social aspect of becoming a mass murderer while dealing with preteen puberty and *gasp* girls. Cast some 8 year old who looks like he's 20 and just go fuckin nuts. Oh yeah, and have his adolescent love interest be one of the people to help drown him. Oh one more thing, make sure budget is a quarter of what the last one was. God speed

This is always the risk when 'remaking/rebooting' a series. If it fails (and whether the first one did is arguable I guess) then what's it's left you with? I was looking forward to one day in my future renting out Friday the 13th Pt 23 double-billed with Halloween 18. But now those dreams seem somewhat shattered. With Jason X and Freddy vs Jason (and with Chucky) they were starting to have some fun with these old characters. Then they figured they'd re-do them and fucked it all up.

Good? Well made? I was with this article until it suggested that this film has anything positive going for it other than the mutters of "nice tits" that caught my eye in between the aneurysms that i was trying to give myself for some kind of relief from that chaffing cock people dared to call a film. It's a complete cardboard cut out of…any horror film ever. Teenagers-tits-drugs-fat/asian guy-insert killer. It didn't even have 'THE' Gimmick which makes some horror films good-great, (the zombies run; YOU have to kill the other person; it's in 3D; vampires sparkle in daylight….scratch that one).

Don't encourage limp dick films like this David. You're ticket purchase is the reason studio execs make more cock strudel films every October and January that forces me away from the movie theater and into a dark, repressed state of inebriation while i watch the original Freddy films or 28 Days Later.

Oh please, the remake was complete garbage. And I'm sure the "reliable account" had nothing at all to do with the set visits.

Remakes/Reboots whatever, psssh. I couldn't even get through Friday and I tried twice. Watch how good Nightmare On Elm Street's gonna be. By "good" I mean really, really terrible.

Well you know, guys, I have yet to actually see the film. So I'm going by the most credible source I have access to. If Devin is giving the thing an 8, I'm going to feel pretty confident in laying the "well-made" out there.

the remake was the best friday movie yet. if you don't like slasher movies, then it ain't gonna change your mind. but it looked good and did what it set out to do.

It was pretty by the numbers slasher flick with not an ounce of originality or creativity and some extremely boring kills. Unfortunately the series has set the bar so low that this new one does seem "well made" by comparison.

Hollywood might actually need to realize that horror films are like life. They need to evolve or they just die off. Jason and the slashers of the 1970s and 1980s are like Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc. of the 1930s. They latter had their day in the sun, but by the 1980s they were not scary to anyone–including kids. Jason and the silent slashers are just not scary anymore. It would take a complete retooling like Francis Ford Coppala did with Bram Stoker's Dracula (which was not scary, but it was still well made and different from the 1930s in so many ways.) Horror needs to evolve and be new and scary in a whole new way. Don't ask me how because we have heard real life horror stories on the news–people eating a person on a bus, a girl kidnaped and held prisoner for years in a back yard, etc.

The best part of all of this is Devin's review of the remake. "The franchise needed this." That's only the first of many things he got wrong about that poorly constructed redux.

I liked the TCM remake and slasher movies can be fun, but the F13 remake was an abomination. Lazy, stupid and boring. If we were in for more of that, the franchise deserved to die. And the Nightmare remake doesn't look much better.

If you're bashing the remakes while praising the originals you're either a liar or an idiot or both. At the very least you're viewing the old films through nostalgia covered glasses. None of this crap is fine cinema.

The point here isn't really the quality of the film. The point is a Friday the 13th movie did $100 million worldwide and they are choosing NOT to make another one. That is unprecedented for this franchise. I love that shitfests (and box office bombs) like Jason Goes to Hell and Jason X couldn't stop the franchise, but a $100 million hit does.

Really, how can anyone hate Sam Winchester vs. Jason Voorhees the movie?

I wrote off the Friday remake long ago after I had seen it. Jason actually takes a hostage in it. Say what? When has he ever done that in the history of the entire Friday franchise? Never, that's when. He's a killing machine…he kills everything that gets in his way. That made me instantly dislike the movie, but maybe that's just me.

Jason X was stupid but loads of fun. The new F13 was dull dull dulll. My new toilet is extremely well made but it still contains a lot of shit majority of the time.

The only good thing about that remake was the naked brunette. Lame kills, bad acting, just a steaming pile of poo.