Why Friday the 13th Can’t Copy Halloween 2018’s Reboot Formula
The Friday the 13th franchise is overdue for a revival, but unfortunately for fans, the series can’t simply copy the approach of Halloween’s 2018 reboot for numerous reasons. TheFriday the 13th movies have never been shy about their creative debt to director John Carpenter’s influential 1978 slasher Halloween. Director Sean S. Cunningham outright admitted that the first Friday the 13th movie, released in 1980, was made primarily as an attempt to cash in on Halloween’s then-recent sleeper hit success, and ever since, the franchise has followed Halloween’s example pretty consistently.
When the Halloween series started to produce a string of increasingly silly sequels throughout the ‘80s, each of which turned its originally semi-human villain into a more invincible supernatural force,Friday the 13th was quick to follow suit (although the franchise did add a well-judged streak of tongue-in-cheek humor to lighten up proceedings). Likewise, when director Rob Zombie remade Halloween in 2007, Friday the 13th received a remake of its own a mere two years later despite Zombie’s re-imagining being met with critical dismissal. However,Friday the 13th can’t replicate the success of 2018’s Halloween reboot despite how tempting the option may seem to fans and producers alike.
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The two slasher franchises may be equally iconic, but Jason can’t just steal Michael’s recent comeback despite Myers inspiring theFriday the 13th movies in the first place. There are numerous reasons that a Halloween 2018-style reboot of Friday the 13th would be doomed to inevitable failure, chief amongst them the fact that Friday the 13th has no famous recurring heroine like Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie
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