Jesus Christ,

how much less imaginitive can they get ?!

A remake of Friday The 13th ? Feck me.

Yeah, saw that too - apparently there's another remake of the texas chainsaw massacre coming along which I reckon has to be even less imaginative......

Found the article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/07/horror-movies !

It's not about imagination, it's about bums in seats. I predict this movie will make money for its investors.

You've been suckered in then, by the sounds of it. The advertising guys will be happy ...

Could very well be crap, haven't went to a horror film in years. I wanted to see the spanish film .Rec (which was remade as Quarantine) but missed it and I also missed the Swedish film Let the Right one In (remake due next year).
Like I said I'm not a fan or a remake for the sake of it but let's face it the original Friday the 13th sequels were smegma, I have a feeling this will be better than the standard fare that's going these days. If it's crap I'll come back and eat crow.
On the subject of remakes; I recently saw the original version of Insomnia which Christopher Nolan remade recently with Al Pacino and Robin Williams, in this case I actually preferred the remake as I thought they beefed up the story a bit.

But this ISN'T a sequel, is it ?

It's a remake of the orginal film.

It's not a remake of the original, in the original Jasons mother was the killer. it's like Superman Returns; a sequel ignoring previous sequels if you kow what I mean. Here's a review. What I thought it would be like. A decent horror but not mould breaking stuff.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40063

hes gonna be able to run properly in this version, apparently. theres talk of a remake of Nifghtmare on elm street too

Reboot is the new buzz word.
http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10865/tcid/1

How about this for a confidence inspiring remake?
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40070

Rossam:
Sounds like your not a fan of the horror genre, having not been to see a horror film in years.
Do you think that one should be a fan of the genre in order to give a review?

I'm thinking....I really don't like musicals. Saw Chicago and thought it was lukewarm crap. Should I leave the review of subsequent musicals to those that love/understand the genre?

Maybe I'm thread jacking here, but that thread about The Day the Earth Stood still got me thinking about genres of movies and those that love that genre being more accepting of cheese in that specific genre.

I wasn't slating the horror genre; what I meant from my first post was that I'm not into remakes for the sake of remakes and I was actually defending the new friday the 13th film by saying it looks ok (some of the reviews so far seem to indicate it's a good slasher but nothing ground breaking) and that it's not sacreligous (unoriginal maybe) to reboot a franchise that was made up of bad sequels. I used to love the old hammer horrors and there are a couple around now that I might try to catch.