Friday the 13th 2009 Has Jason’s Most Underrated Opening Scene
Although Friday the 13th’s 2009 remake had its issues, the movie’s opening scene is Jason Voorhees’s most underrated killing spree. While 1980’s original Friday the 13thwas a huge financial success, the glacially paced slasher had one of the franchise’s less impressive openings. Although critically derided, its 2009 remake more than made up for this problem.
In general, the opening scenes of the Friday the 13th movies were some of the franchise’s best moments. Friday the 13th Part 2 dealt with the question of what happened to the original movie’s star and set up a horror franchise tradition when the sequel killed offFriday the 13th’s final girl Alice in the opening moments, while even the widely disliked sequel Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday featured a superb opening scene wherein what looked like a standard-issue slasher chase turned out to be a setup designed to lure Jason into an explosive trap. However, none of these beat the simple joys of Friday the 13th 2009’s opening.
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After killing off Jason’s mother Pamela Voorhees in a one-minute pre-credits sequence, the extended opening scene of Friday the 13th 2009 begins proper and proceeds to last a whopping twenty-five minutes. It is a bravura sequence that introduces five characters, establishes their personas and their dynamics, and then has Jason pick them off in swift succession. The scene functions as a mini slasher movie in its own right, and is easily the most underrated opening in a series that mostly whose less inspired sequels typically used their first scene to set up another unlikely revival for Jason. What makes the scene so compelling is how Friday the 13th’s 2009 remake combines the
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