Julianna went to the premiere of her most recent movie Friday the 13th on Febuary 09, 2009. Julianna looked really cute with her white, beautiful dress. Images from the premiere have been added to the gallery. The movie hits the theaters today on February 13, 2009, don’t forget to go and watch it!

The old Jason Vorhees was (with apologies to Archilochus) a bit of a hedgehog. He only knew one thing: kill, kill, kill. A company man in hockey mask and jumpsuit, he doggedly pursued a series of bumbling co-eds through camp, Manhattan and space for more than 20 years just to slice, chop, mash and puree without ever pausing to reflect. It was a purpose-driven life, true, but clearly not based on the laws of spiritual success, and so it seemed in constant need of sprucing up (“New Blood,” “New Beginning,” “Jason Lives,” etc.).

The new new new Jason Vorhees, played by Derek Mears in this Michael Bay-produced homage/update of the ’80s slasher franchise, is a bit of a fox. He’s still utterly deformed and super-homely, of course, but he knows many things: archery, doll making, secret-lair construction, ax hurling, cremation and maybe even a crazy little thing called love (a young lady reminds him of his dear mother, so she may just win an alternate fate). He has the teensiest bit of a psychological profile, and so the teensiest bit of depth.

This craftier character calls for craftier filmmaking (that and a budget from both Paramount and New Line), so Marcus Nispel — veteran director of Janet Jackson and George Michael videos, as well as the 2003 remake of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — tries his best. And this new “Friday the 13th” is infinitely better than “Jason X” (in which the villain is last seen on Earth 2) or “Jason vs. Freddy,” but it’s still schlock.

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I’ve never had a giant machete stuck through my sternum, so I can’t relate to the sensation. But I think Danielle Panabaker does a lovely job of conveying that uncomfortable impaled feeling, shish kabob-like, as she gets hers from Jason in the new “Friday the 13th.”

Rest assured that pretty much everyone gets hers or his in this slash-and-dash concoction, though attaching the word “new” to a “Friday the 13th” movie is a bit of a misnomer. This is the 11th in the series that began at a summer camp on Crystal Lake in 1980 (the 12th if you count “Freddy vs. Jason” from 2003).

Officially this is a “reboot,” a re-launching of the demented hockey mask-wearing killer who obliterates fun-seeking teens and 20-somethings. It’s produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller, the retread wizards who brought you do-overs of ’70s shockers “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Amityville Horror.”

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