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Film: Friday the 13th (2009)

Welcome to Crystal Lake.

Like many horror stables before it, Friday the 13th got rebooted. This film carries no subtitle or numerical marker as a result, but — provided one accepts Freddy vs. Jason as a part of the franchise — this marks the twelfth film in the series.

While the film retains the same general origin as the original film, this film takes place in the 2000s and features a more intelligent Jason — one who lays traps and stalks his victims instead of reaching for the nearest blunt object — going up against a group of teens who've decided to spend their summer vacation at a lavish house situated near Crystal Lake.

A planned sequel to this film currently sits in Development Hell.

Friday the 13th contains examples of the following tropes:

Agony of the Feet: Jason stabs Mike's foot through the floor when they're checking his cabin. His palm soon follows.
Asshole Victim: Trent.
Bear Trap: Richie gets caught on bear trap set by Jason. Later on Whitney uses a bear trap against Jason during the final confrontation.
Blood Is Squicker In Water: Jason leaves Lawrence's body into a pool, which dyes it red.
Broad Strokes: The events of the original film happened, but Pamela Voorhees' killing spree happened shortly after Jason's "death", rather than twenty years later.
Buxom Is Better: Trent can't stop talking about how perfect Bree's breasts are during their sex scene.
Trent: Your tits are stupendous.
Bree: Wow, you really know how to make a girl feel special.
Crazy Survivalist: This Jason being mortal, and thus more firmly rooted in reality, he's been living alone out in the woods near Camp Crystal Lake for well over two decades. It shows, as he is an expert with traps, a crack shot with a bow and arrow and in general acts more like a stalking predator than the classic Implacable Man he is in other films. He has also managed to create a well-stocked underground lair with a tunnel network that runs all throughout the area.
Cargo Envy
Compressed Adaptation: Elements from the first four films are featured.
Dangerous Windows: Jason grabs Clay through a window.
A Date with Rosie Palms: Lawrence is about to have one when he is interrupted by Jenna and Clay.
Death By Pragmatism: Subverted with Clay.
Decoy Protagonist: Fake Final Girl Jenna.
- Hell, the film even tosses out a Decoy Cast — almost everyone in the first group of teens shown in the film ends up killed, and the real story picks up six weeks after Jason's attack.
Ear Ache: Richie finds Wade's corpse after finding his severed ear.
Everything Is Racist: Lawrence — the lone black person of the film — invokes this twice. The first time was in order to get out of pumping gas, and the second time was for joking around (he talks about making a music label to Chelsea, who automatically think it'll be for rap. Lawrence takes offense to this and says �Oh, because I�m black, I can�t listen to Green Day?� Chelsea then apologizes and asks what kind of genre Lawrence is going to do, to which he smiles and says that he actually is going to do rap.)
Final Girl: The girl in the opening, later Whitney, but at the end the only one left standing is apparently Clay.
Ghost Story: Wade relates the tale of Camp Crystal Lake around the campfire.
Give My Regards in the Next World: "Jason! Say hi to mommy - in hell!"
Hoist by His Own Petard: Jason is defeated with the fact he loves his mother and by his own machete. Whitney knows this and uses it to defeat him.
Jerkass: Trent.
Impromptu Tracheotomy: Chewie gets a screwdriver into his throat.
Improvised Armour: When Lawrence goes out looking for Chewie, he picks up a pan to be his shield.
Logo Joke: The logos at the start appear bathed in blood red.
Not Quite Dead: Jason in the ending, as usual.
Off with His Head!: Mrs. Voorhees gets decapitated in the opening, natch. And Donnie gets his head decapitated too in alternative scene of his death scene.
Poor Man's Porn: The winter catalogue for Lawrence.
Prolonged Prologue: The prologue is over twenty minutes.
The Reveal: Whitney isn't dead, she's Jason's captive.
Shout Out: There's an argument about Heineken and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
- Bree's death is very reminiscient of Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Slashed Throat: Donnie's death.
The Stoner: Lawrence and Chewie.
Taxidermy Terror: Lawrence tries to masturbate in the living room, but finds himself too creeped out by a big stuffed deer head staring right at him to go through with it.
Wrong Genre Savvy: While running away from Jason, Trent comes across a truck, whose driver is willing to pick him up. Trent then starts doubting the driver's friendliness, which gives enough time for Jason to catch up to him.