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Friday the 13th

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Yet another remake/version/enhancement of the Friday the 13th story, the 11th so far. A young man is searching for his sister who went missing around Crystal Lake a while back. He hooks up with the girlfriend of another guy who is staying at a cabin near the lake with a bunch of friends. While these two continue the search, Jason and his machete crawl out of the woodwork and starts pushing up the body count ...

96 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence)
Horror, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill

Director

Marcus Nispel

Screenplay

Damian Shannon, Mark Swift, Marl Wheaton, using characters by Victor Miller

Music

Steve Jablonsky

Cinematography

Daniel Pearl

Editing

Ken Blackwell

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, DTS

Soundtrack

Not available

Made in

2009

Produced by

Crystal Lake Entertainment, MTV Films, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Platinum Dunes

SA Distributor

UIP

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Horror
Language	Strong, crude, vulgar, frequent
Nudity	Sexual nudity, breast, partial pubic region
Sex	Prolonged scenes of simulated sex with suggestive sounds, intimate fondling
Violence	Intense psychological and physical violence: bloody, gruesome, gory horror.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Religious profanities, infrequent
Drug abuse	Reference to drug: marijuana
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

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Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarAtiyyah Khan

Die BurgerFrancois Bloemhof

Cape TimesNicholas Barber

iAfrica.comRob Peters After more than two decades of increasingly ridiculous storylines, fans of the series have something to smile about.

The CitizenLeon van Niero A damp squib and hopefully will not have nine similar, pointless, sick sequels.

24.comIvan Sadler This is just a shameless piece of garbage trying to sell itself on the nostalgia value of a slightly above average film that spawned a ton of crappy sequels

International Media

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert Friday the 13th is about the best Friday the 13th movie you could hope for. Its technical credits are excellent. It has a lot of scary and gruesome killings. Not a whole lot of acting is required. If that's what you want to find out, you can stop reading.

eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs Unnecessary and offering nary anything novel, imaginative or creative to a subgenre that long ago ran its course and wore out its welcome, the only unlucky thing about Friday the 13th will be the saps who plunk down their money to see it and -- most likely -- financially encourage an equally boring and redundant sequel (yet again).

Metacritic.com29 critics

RottenTomatoes.com141 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Though technically well-constructed, Friday the 13th is a series rehash that features little to distinguish it from its predecessors.

Internet (IMDB)10508 Netizens In no way groundbreaking, but an absolute blast and excellent revamp of Jason

Average .. 33%

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