Friday the 13th

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Summary: A Classic in the Genre of Horror (4.5 stars)
Review: The first of 10 Jason Voorhies slashers is the best in the catalog. It features a group of young teenagers that head to an abandoned Camp to set up and get ready to run Camp Krystal Lake for the first time in several years. One by one, they're stalked by an unknown, violent killer.

This film has just what you're looking for as it carries suspense, dumb laughs and blodd spillage.

It is one of the better slasher flicks and is highlighted by the scene where one of the young women is searching in a bathroom for someone (i won't give it away), and it's absolutely terrifying, shocking ending when you think it's all over.

Overall, if you're a horror fan addict, this is a must see. It may not scare you, but it provides plenty of good entertainment.

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Summary: how many people entered "Ki-Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma" here?
Review: Ah, The original Friday. It's amazing to know that the machete-wielding killer in a hocky mask originated from a movie that was based around his mother and not him.

A few years before hand a boy named Jason Voorhees drowned in the lake of Camp Crystal Lake. The camp councillors where meant to be watching everyone who was in the water, but they where too busy doing breaststroke of another kind.

Jason Voorhees was said to have drowned in CCL and the camp was shut down. A few years later the camp is about to be re-opened by some new councillors. But something strange is going on, things aren't going right, somebody doesn't want them to open that camp up again.

When Sean Cunningham created this 1980's horror movie classic he chose a cast of unknowns for his independent film. But one of those actors is now well known, perhaps you know him? Kevin Bacon. Also screen veteran Betsy Palmer. But don't expect to see a whole lot of familiar faces like they did with that rip-off F-13th wannabe film "Scream", and "Know what you did last summer". Sean had the right idea to cast (then) unknown actors to be part of this film so that you can enjoy the film and not concentrate on familiar actors all the time. And they would have had no idea that they where about to make new history in the beginning of one of the greatest horror movie sagas of all time. And the success the film would endure even to this day.

I own the region 4 (Australia) edition of Friday the 13th. And it is distributed by Warner Bros. Not Paramount. And it includes an interesting audio commentary by Sean S.Cunningham, featurette's and some other bonus things. Apart from it having a weird cover instead of the traditional dark black with a white figure on it. I would recommend any F13th fan try to get there hands on that version of F13th instead of the Paramount version that has no bonus features included (not even in the Manhattan box set has the commentary!)

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Summary: Friday the 13th
Review: You'll wish it were only a nightmare.

This movie is good. I didn't think it was scary as everybody says. I didn't think it was graphic like everybody said it was. My favorite death was Kevin Bacon's death. Which was fun and great to watch. Sean Cunningham did do a great job with making this movie. There is no real big feature in this 1-disc dvd.

This film is presented in a widescreen presentation

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Summary: Friday The 13th (1980)
Review: In 1974, director Tobe Hooper had brought us the frightening, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". In 1978, just four years after "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", John Carpenter, brought us the terrifying, "Halloween". Both films may have chilled us all to the bone, but those films did not define the term, "Slasher Flick".

In 1980, director Sean S. Cunningham brought us the infamous, "Friday The 13th", the film that had definite potential in defining, "Slasher Flick". It was the one horror movie that really made you re-think your camping trip.

In the summer of 1957, 11-year-old Jason Voorhees (played by Ari Lehman) drowned in the lake, while at Camp Crystal Lake. In the summer of 1958, two counselors, Barry (played by Willie Adams) and Claudette (played by Debra S. Hayes), were brutally slaughtered. Since then, Camp Crystal Lake was shut down, due to the unsolved murders. But on Friday, June 13th, 1980, exactly 22 years after the two murders, Steve Christy (played by Peter Brouwer) has re-opened Camp Crystal Lake, where has hired seven new counselors: Jack Burrell (played by Kevin Bacon), Ned Rubinstein (played by Mark Nelson), Marcie Cunningham (played by Jeannine Taylor), Brenda (played by Laurie Bartram), Bill (played by Harry Crosby), Annie (played by Robbi Morgan), & Alice Hardy (played by Adrienne King).

Only six of the counselors have arrived at Camp Crystal Lake. Annie is still on her way, but she has come across the anonymous killer, who had killed the two others 22 years ago. Poor Annie didn't have a chance to live the rest of her life.

Steve Christy goes off on an errands, while the other six continue to get the place in shape for the little kids. But Ned, Jack, Marcie, Brenda, and Bill meet the same fate as Annie, where they are killed by the same anonymous killer, until Alice is the only one left alive. She finds Bill's dead body and runs back to the main cabin, barricading the door. But as she locks all the doors in the cabin, Brenda's dead body is thrown through the kitchen window. Alice runs into the living and sees a jeep pull up. She runs out to meet the driver in the jeep. The driver in the jeep is a woman named Pamela Voorhees. She reveals her true identity as the brutal killer of this whole ordeal. Her motive: the death of her son, Jason Voorhees. She claims the two counselors she murdered in 1958 were the ones that allowed Jason to drown, while they were sleeping together. After a long battle with Mrs. Voorhees, Alice grabs a machete and decapitates Mrs. Voorhees.
Alice, relieved that she has finally stopped the madness, climbs into a canoe and drifts off into the lake. She awakes the next morning to the sound of a police calling out to her. But as she looks up, Jason's rotting corpse jumps up out of the water and pulls Alice underneath the water, but Alice finds herself in the hospital. The sheriff of Crystal Lake asks if Alice remembers anything. She remembers everything, including her dream of Jason pulling her into the water. The sheriff brings to Alice's attention that there was no boy.

Advice from me to you: Camping does not seem like a good idea right now. But cheer up. Grab your copy of Friday The 13th and enjoy it, until everything dies down at Camp Crystal Lake.

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Summary: Lousy plot and dialogue. Scary??Not in the least.
Review: This is the original, the first in the installment of a series of horror flicks, that are extremely stupid and poorly done. The film is lame, it's boring, and it's poorly written. They try to startle you to scare you but when I first saw this when it first came out I pridicted every time they were going to do this. IT IS A PREDICTABLE STORY WITH LOUSY DIALOGUE. The acting isn't that good either. I like a good gore film, this aint one. Not much gore. I like a movie with a dark sense of humor, not much homor except for the poor acting. I like a movie that makes sense. This doesn't. People screaming and running around scared is not my idea of a movie. The killer is slow and one has to wonder how these kids just can't get away from the killer or defend themselves. I HATED THIS FILM WHEN I FIRST SAW IT IN 1980 AND STILL DO. SKIP THIS ONE UNLESS YOU WANT TO TAKE A NAP.

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Summary: Excellent Introduction to the Future of Horror
Review: Okay, so you've seen the movie in the rental store. Should you watch it? I think so. It is ultimately the start of the next generation of horror. It starts out with a young boy drowning (in 1957) at the age of 11. Not too long after that, someone starts the most shocking set of murders ever to be remembered.

The assailant, whom is either good old Jason Voorhees himself or someone else, discovers there is another group of teens (camp counselors, the people responsible for Jason's death) inhabiting Camp Crystal Lake. As you can probably guess, they are dispatched in extremely gory, cruel methods, until Alice (played by Adrienne King) is the only one left. She then discovers Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mom. She seems friendly enough to be anyone's mom, until we see the leatherman knife hidden behind her shirt.

Things start going downhill from there, especially with the ending, which repeats itself in the second and third parts, just to give Jason a chance to unmask himself and breathe in some fresh air. Overall, though, this series combined with Halloween (created by John Carpenter and still influencing hundreds) is a jam-packed ride into the true meaning of terror.