Nowadays, with home theater systems and DVDs of most major films available… it is pretty un-original to “re-make” a film. I guess studios don’t think film goers will go to see “Friday the 13th: Part XXX.” So they have to “re-make” the first one, and re-call it “Friday the 13th” (instead of “Friday the 13th: The next Generation”). Which of course leaves them open to making sequals with their slightly altered “mythology. “Meh… At least they aren’t renaming it and trying to release it as something new.

Remember “A Perfect Murder” in 1998. Having read nothing about it prior to seeing it, I spent the whole time in the theater saying… “I’ve seen this before” (for those that don’t know, it is a remake of “Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder”).

Nowadays, with home theater systems and DVDs of most major films available… it is pretty un-original to “re-make” a film. I guess studios don’t think film goers will go to see “Friday the 13th: Part XXX.” So they have to “re-make” the first one, and re-call it “Friday the 13th” (instead of “Friday the 13th: The next Generation”). Which of course leaves them open to making sequals with their slightly altered “mythology. “Meh… At least they aren’t renaming it and trying to release it as something new.

Remember “A Perfect Murder” in 1998. Having read nothing about it prior to seeing it, I spent the whole time in the theater saying… “I’ve seen this before” (for those that don’t know, it is a remake of “Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder”).