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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The ultimate director’s cut – Tarantino and Friday the 13th — Can someone define the term “good news” for me?

Good news for anyone who likes their movies as bloody as a rare steak. Quentin Tarantino, the director who made ultra-violence fashionable with films such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, is reportedly in negotiations to revive one of cinema’s most established horror franchises.

Tarantino is considering writing and directing a new instalment of Friday the 13th, the 25-year-old stalk-and-slash movie series that stars the hockey mask-wearing pyschopath Jason Voorhees. The director is in early talks with New Line Cinema and is scheduled to hold meetings with the company this week.

The original Friday the 13th film was a low-budget affair released in 1980 and remembered – if at all – as one of Kevin Bacon’s earliest films. It introduced Voorhees as a boy who drowns in a lake at a school camp and whose death may be linked to the systematic slaughter of the camp’s counsellors 11 years later.

A sequel followed in 1981 and Friday the 13th became one of the drivers of the 1980s horror boom. It has spawned more than 10 sequels