The 2009 remake

However I  may feel about the movie as a whole, there are a couple of kill sequences I thought were pretty righteous. The arrow through the head comes out of nowhere to that poor bloke driving the motorboat and the machete stab to the head while the female victim is hiding under a pier is really effective without being overtly gory (it's the sound effect that I think sells it, but the pull of the blade which thrusts the girl's head knocking against the wood is rather holy crap; it just flat worked for me, I guess). I have to say, though, that the discovery of the hockey mask was uninspired. I remember watching  this scene in the theater feeling rather annoyed that this was the best they could come up with. I tell you I still remain awestruck by the one scene where the machete-to-the-head girl sees Jason from afar while trying to keep her bearings after that bad ass boat slam to the head that left her disoriented for a moment. Director Marcus Nispel has his Jaws moment shooting Willa Ford's swimming legs underwater; I guess tributes have to be made to Spielberg if you have a soon-to-be-dead-meat babe wholly vulnerable in the middle of a lake (or body of water, whatever it may be). I don't know. For some reason, there's no spirit of fun to this movie. Even Jason X and Freddy vs. Jason seemed to capture a love for dumb "dead teenagers" movies I grew up with, but Friday the 13th just feels like a movie built to earn a large sum of money.