Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a reboot of the Friday the 13th film series, which began in 1980 and the twelfth Friday the 13th film in total. Nispel also directed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre- 1974, while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for the 2003 crossover Freddy vs. Jason. Friday the 13th follows Clay Miller played by Jared Padalecki as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney played by Amanda Righetti, who while camping in the woods at Crystal Lake is taken by Jason Voorhees- Derek Mears. This 2009 film was distributed by paramount.

On June 13, 2009, a young Jason Voorhees witnesses his mother being beheaded by a camp counselor, who was trying to escape Mrs. Voorhees's murderous rampage around Camp Crystal Lake. Approximately 30 years later, a group of vacationing friends—Wade, Richie, Mike, Whitney  and Amanda arrive at Crystal Lake on a camping trip to find some marijuana that was planted in the woods. As Mike and Whitney explore the abandoned Crystal Lake camp, an adult Jason, with a hockey mask on his face to conceal it, begins to kill the rest of the group one by one. Jason also kills Mike, but decides to spare Whitney and abducts her because she resembles his mother at a young age.

Six weeks later, Trent along with his girlfriend Jenna and their friends Chelsea, Bree, Chewie, Nolan and Lawrence arrive at Trent's summer cabin on the shore of Crystal Lake. The group is unaware of the events that occurred a few weeks prior. Clay Miller arrives in town to search Crystal Lake for Whitney, his sister. Clay eventually makes his way to Trent's cabin, where Jenna agrees to help him look for his sister on the other side of the lake. As Clay and Jenna search for clues, Jason kills Chelsea and Nolan, who are wakeboarding on the lake. Clay and Jenna reach the old Crystal Lake campgrounds, where they witness Jason hauling a dead body into one of the abandoned camp houses.

The pair run back to warn the others about Jason, who soon arrives and cuts the power to the cabin. After killing Chewie and Lawrence, who ventured outside the house, Jason sneaks inside the cabin and kills Bree. Trent, Clay, and Jenna escape the house, but Trent is killed when he reaches the main road. Jason then chases Clay and Jenna back to the campgrounds, where Clay discovers Jason's lair and finds his sister chained to the wall. Clay frees Whitney, and all three attempt to escape as Jason arrives. The trio finds an exit, but Jenna is killed before she can get out. Jason comes after Clay and Whitney, but Whitney, by pretending to be Mrs. Voorhees, uses Jason's love and memory of his mother to distract him long enough to stab him in the chest with his own machete. Afterward, Clay dumps Jason's lifeless body into the lake. Before he and Whitney can leave, Jason bursts through the wooden dock and grabs Whitney...

This movie challenges Todorov’s theory as everything seems normal and that the situations are running smoothly .This equilibrium is then disrupted by the murderer Jason as he seeks his victims. The new equilibrium is resolved as the final girl character we are lead to believe is safe and is on her way back to earth, which does follow Todorov but at the very end of the movie  Jason pulls Whitney into the water still leaving a disequilibrium.  

When it comes to audience expectation for Slasher movies it is almost entirely made up of adolescents. There has been much speculation on why many teenagers are drawn to the genre. Critics of the genre argue that it is the frequent violence, nudity and sex that attract a teenage audience. Other theorists argue that it’s a deeper logic, into adolescent psychology. Because violent films are frowned upon by cinema critics and authority figures, the teenagers desire to rebel and view these movies is what drives the audience to watch violent films. As Friday the 13^th 2009 version is a remake of the original film Friday the 13^th 1989. This is a very famous film with a very iconic villain, Jason Voorhees. Because this film was such a success a lot of the general public have seen the movie so will know what to expect from the remake.  There is a cliff hanger at the end of this movie ready for a sequel, which were made after the original film. 

To create a good horror film, there needs to be good setting, light, music and characters to get the full potential of scaring the audience. In this film the setting is an abandoned lake with an isolated wood cabin. By making this setting into a horror film is a good idea because the audience don’t expect what’s to come and it defeats the conventions of a peaceful relaxing holiday. In this film as the murders are committed at night time. Natural night lit sky is common for horror films as this is when people feel most vulnerable. The music is usually what makes the movie very tense as it’s usually eerie and is a very subtle indicator that something is going to happen.  Because this movie has been out for a while the general public have learnt Jason as a house hold name as he is such a big character in the horror genre, making this film very popular.  
As this movie is a slasher film, it fits in the 1980s category of horror history. As the original film was brought out in the 1980s it’s no surprise that it followed this trend of slasher as this kind of genre was the best rating at the time as it was most popular.
Jason is the main character in this film as he is the villain therefore the whole story line is based around him and why he became a serial killer. I think that Jason was so famous because of his iconic hockey mask that he always wore to cover up his deformed face. You could tell who had been killed by him as they were always brutally murdered in different ways one of the most famous ways Jason killed someone is by an arrow through their eye. The main hero in this film was a girl called Whitney who was one of the girls who was on the camping holiday. She was the final girl of this movie as she figured out how to understand his frame of mind and his love for his mother.
In conclusion I would say that this is a very successful movie because of the interesting story line and how it is almost like a murder mystery, apart from all the brutal murders which make it a slasher horror movie. Jason is a true iconic character for horror, renowned for interesting ways of killing and also the props as part of his iconography. It follows all the techniques of a horror, slow paced at the begging, getting to know the characters and narrative with a huge climax at the end along with a final girl character/ final girl.