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Summary: A popular classic, but still a mediocre horror flick
Review: Despite its popularity, FRIDAY THE 13TH still got a lot of flak from critics, and I must say they make a lot of good points against the movie. Okay, I won't go so far as critic Roger Ebert did when he said the film was "beneath contempt"---sure, compared to its superior predecessor HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH really is exploitation hackwork, but it isn't totally horrible as a horror flick. Director Sean S. Cunningham at the very least has a decent sense of how to create a tense atmosphere that gives the movie more class than it deserves---he isn't necessarily just interested in the next murder, like some lesser directors might be. It's too bad, though, that Cunningham knows very little about building suspense, relying instead on gruesome cheap shocks to make an effect. And he shows almost no sense of style---a stark contrast to John Carpenter, for whom style was just about everything in HALLOWEEN. In addition to all that, the film's attempt at being some kind of mystery totally fails, since the eventual solution to it is so out-of-left-field (not like it really matters anyway, right?). Tom Savini's notorious gore effects in this one are admittedly kinda cool, though---and, in its own way, groundbreaking. In the film's own way, too, FRIDAY THE 13TH is groundbreaking, but for the wrong reason: it inspired a slew of imitators in the '80s that tried to make even more outrageously violent and bloody slasher flicks, where gore was everything and true horror was zero. FRIDAY THE 13TH might not have been "beneath contempt," but the bloody-slasher-flick subgenre it helped popularize sure became so. Still, on its own, FRIDAY THE 13TH is a sometimes decent but generally mediocre slasher flick.
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Summary: Friday the 13th (1980)
Review: Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Kevin Bacon.
Running Time: 95 minutes.
Rated R for violence, gore, language, and mild sexual situations. One of the more influential slasher films of all time, "Friday the 13th" was one of the few in the series that was moderately scary, used specific camera positioning and foreground for its scares, and possessed a fairly intelligent script. A group of camp counselors are looking forward to their work at Crystal Lake campsite, only to hear the warnings from townies that they are in severe danger and that they should leave immediately. Ignoring these threats, the teenagers live life as if they are no worries. Their attitudes change when a maniac killer starts to knock off all of the counselors, each in a gory fashion one-by-one. Adrienne King is the main scream queen, running around the camp finding dead bodies all over and finally encountering the killer and learns the truth of the systematic murder spree. Excellent special effects by master Tom Savini and a tense, dramatic musical score, yet the performances are fairly laughable and the plot gets old quickly (which obviously means they should make nine more sequels!). The final scene is absolutely terrifying! Not one of the best, but still important to the genre.
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Summary: Average JOE!!!
Review: This movie has a nice concept to it but was poorly done. Might of been better if there was a bigger budget and not so stupid of teens.
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Summary: Friday The 13th (1980)
Review: Sometimes camping isn't all that safe and that's what is shown here in FRIDAY THE 13TH film that gave SLASHER FLICK its meaning. Friday The 13th is the most widely acclaimed horror film in the entire horror genre. The film was highly praised for it's creative and horrifying murder sequences that were all created by Tom Savini. I know that all of you, even if you didn't see the film, know that Jason Voorhees was not the killer in this, but I'm gonna give the run-down of this movie anyway. In 1957, poor little Jason Voorhees supposedly drowned in Camp Crystal Lake at the age of 11. He died while his mother was working as the camp's chef. He died while two teenage counselors purposely ignored his cries for help while they discovered things that go "bump" in the night. A year later, 1958, the two counselors that left Jason to supposedly drown are slaughtered by an unknown killer. After the murders, the camp remained shut down for 21 years. June 13, 1979 approaches. Steve Christy is the new boss of Camp Crystal Lake and finally re-opens the camp. He hires seven new counselors: JACK (played Kevin Bacon), MARCIE, BRENDA, ANNIE, NED, BILL, and ALICE (played by Adrienne King). Unfortunately for ANNIE, she never made it to Crystal Lake. The killer got to her and slashed her throat. The remaining six counselors continue with fixing up the place, while Steve goes off for a couple of hours. After the six had dinner, JACK AND MARCIE go into one of the cabins for a little "fun", while Ned becomes another one of the killer's victims. While MARCIE goes off to the bathroom, JACK lays back in bed until the killer reaches up and stabs him through the back of a neck with an arrow. MARCIE is in the bathroom brushing her teeth until she winds up with an axe in her face. BRENDA, BILL, and ALICE are the only remaining counselors, who are amusing themselves by playing STRIP MONOPOLY. BRENDA goes off to get ready for bed. She gets into her bed until she hears the distant cry of a child screaming HELP ME! BRENDA goes to investigate, but is killed off-screen. BILL and ALICE go and look for BRENDA, JACK, MARCIE, and NED. They don't find anybody. BILL continues to look while ALICE goes back to the main cabin to get some sleep. She then goes out to look for BILL but finds him dead. That is when MRS. VOORHEES (played by Betsy Palmer) pulls up and the finale begins. MRS. VOORHEES was apparently so crazy that she "lost her head". ALICE grabs a canue and drifts off into the lake. The police come to her rescue until a rotting Jason jumps up from the lake and grabs ALICE, where she wakes up in a HOSPITAL. The sheriff is there and discusses with ALICE the events of the night before. ALICE asks if the boy she saw is dead as well. The sheriff reveals that there was no boy. Apparently, Jason is probably still in the lake. Some horror fans disliked this movie only because Jason wasn't the killer. Again, I am here to say that those people are still very stupid. They dislike a movie for the dumbest reason. Who the killer is doesn't have anything to do with the whole movie in general. This movie was one of the best horror movies I've seen. If it wasn't for this film, we never would have seen it spawn nine sequels. If you have not yet seen this film, ignore the bad reviews and buy this. Take it from me, I am a true horror film fan and I know what is actually good.
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Summary: Scary As HELL
Review: We get an arrow through the troat, axe in the head, slashed throat, arrows pinned in a guy, a person tied to a board getting thrown through the window, a decapitation, and violent stabbing. A group of teenagers venture to Camp Crystal lake to renavate it for opening day, none of them knowing the murderous history. When an unseen force starts slaughtering each and every teenager in brutal ways its up to the few remainders to quickly find out what is happening!
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Summary: Classic
Review: If you don't like this movie then you are simply not a true horror fan. 5 stars all the way!!!
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Summary: Friday the 13th pt1
Review: This movie has absolutely no redeeeming charateristics. Script terrible, dialog worse, acting appalling, S%*t they couldn't even light it halfway decently. Half of the time you're sitting watching the screen waiting for something (anything) to emerge from the darkness. If this was the genesis of modern horror it's at the primordial sludge stage and we have evolved. Please if you have money to spend on 1980's horrors try Nightmare on Elm street
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Summary: A CLASSIC
Review: ONE OF THE BEST HORRO MOVIES EVER ALTHOUGH NO JASON MRS VOOREHES FITS IN GREAT SHES REALLY CREPPY THE FILM SET THE STANDARD FOR SLASHER FILMS AND GORE EFFECTS THE ACTING IS REALLY GOOD THE FILMS REAL SUSPENSFUL AT TIMES AND THIS MOVIE IS REALY I MEAN REALLY THE GOREY HERES SOME EXAMPES A GIRL ANNIE GETS HER THROAT SLASHED AND BLOOD GUSHES OUT KEVIN BACON GETS A ARROW THROUGH THE TROAT BLOOD SPIRLIN OUT ANOTHER GIRL GET AN AXE IN THE FACE ANOTHER GUY IS PINED TO THE CABIN DOOR WITH ARROS IN HIS EYES BLOOD RUNNING OUT THERE HIS LEGS AND ARMS COVETRD WITH ARROWS TO AND THROAT WAS RIPPED OPEN TOO AND MRS VOOREHES DIDNT WEAR A MASK EITHER BUT SHE IS ALSO BRUTALY DECAPITATED.
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Summary: Great film
Review: Horror at its best! highly recommended it perfectly captures that 80's horror film the last scene is unforgettable!
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Summary: Friday the 13th: THE BEST HORROR MOVIE EVER!!!!
Review: Even though Jason isn't in this one, It's very scary!!! Evryone knows the stroy, but i'll say it anyway. It's about a 10 year old boy who drowns at Camp crystal lake. Non of the conserlers were watching, so he died. Now years later, he's supposedly come back. By coming back, he curses his mom to kill all the new conserlers who are there. All this on the worst night of the year, FRIDAY THE 13TH!!!!!!
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