

And in that way, 2009’s Friday the 13th remake could hardly have been better-suited to its era.
For nearly 30 years-and despite two separate movies that explicitly promised to be the final chapter of Friday the 13th-the franchise had refused to die.īut for all the weird ways filmmakers had toyed with Jason Voorhees over the years, there was one last obvious place Jason hadn’t gone yet: back to the beginning for a full-blown franchise reboot. He had even walked away from a Nightmare on Elm Street crossover with Freddy Krueger’s severed head in his hands. Read parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11.

This is the 12th article in a series revisiting one Friday the 13th movie every Friday the 13th.
