Saw it tonight and I really liked it. The only real complaints I have are the standard horror cliche kind; why are you going over there? Why the fuck would anyone do that? type stuff. Annoying, but nothing too obnoxious.

I really, really liked how this movie looked. The whole movie was just really well made. I’ve become a big fan of Marcus Nispels’ directing style (this and TCM). There are some really beautiful shots and set ups, sneak up Jason was in full effect. I’d like to see him do the new Nightmare movie. It felt true to the series while altering bits and pieces here and there, I like this take on Jason a lot more than the zombie Jason. Felt more believable, while keeping that menacing quality as a huge force that could stalk or pounce at a moments notice. The tunnels were cool to explain how he could pop around
really fast and running Jason was just cool to see.

I thought the kills were…tasteful. After a lot of ultra gore the past few years I thought it was a good idea to reel it back a bit with some pretty brutal shit here and there to punch it up. Sure, it falls short on the real creative elements but it all looked really believable and the body count is pretty high.

I don’t see why it’s getting brutalized by critics, the whole audience I was with seemed to all have fun and it was actually genuinely funny at parts. The dude that screams in the cop car was fucking hilarious and the 3rd set of bare titties are just fantastic.

Go see it.