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Post by CT on Jun 16, 2006 2:52:58 GMT -5
Rate this movie one a scale of 0 - 5 stars. ( 5 being the 'best'!)
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Post by GL on Jun 16, 2006 14:00:30 GMT -5
“Friday the 13th” is the greatest slasher film of all time.
**SPOILERS**
In 1957, a group of counselors at Camp Crystal Lake let 13-year old Jason Voorhees drown in the lake. The next year, there are a couple of murders at the camp. Every time that the camp tries to open, there are unexplained accidents to keep them away. The camp remains closed until 1980, when it's reopened again by Steve Christy, (Peter Brouwer). Trouble starts when one of the counselors, Annie (Robbi Morgan) is murdered before she even gets to the camp. All the other counselors are already there fixing up the camp. When Steve goes into town for some supplies, the other counselors begin forgetting their chores and start concentrating on goofing around with each. As night falls and neither Steve nor Annie shows up, the counselors bunk up in the main hall. Two of them, Jack (Kevin Bacon) and Marcie (Jeannie Taylor) go off to sleep with each other, but are both killed by an unknown assailant. A raging thunderstorm strikes the camp, forcing Brenda (Laurie Bartham) to check her cabin, where she is murdered as well. Only two are left, Bill (Harry Crosby) and Alice (Adrienne King). When Bill goes off to find the others, Alice is left alone. Waiting for a long time, she decides to go off looking for everybody. She finds their slaughtered remains strewn around the camp. A woman, Pamela Voorhees, (Betsy Palmer) arrives and Alice soon discovers that she was the killer all along. The two women chase each other around the camp until having their final showdown.
The Good News: This movie triumphs over any other slasher ever made. This movie is all about the body count, which is the reason for this movie. It is an impressive one at that, with a wide variety of kills. We have multiple arrows shot into the body, including one in the eye, another person has an arrow shoved through the neck, one gets an ax in the head, two people have their throat slit, and one is impaled in the stomach with a knife. There are more, but those are important to the plot. What makes it so great is mostly the time period when it was made. At the time, this was the only other slasher film ever made, outside of "Halloween," and this film takes it to another level. "Halloween" may have seen the scarier of the two, but this one far exceeds it in terms of gore. Mrs. Voorhees is quite a capable killer, like her son Jason. He never appears in this one until the end, which in and of itself is maybe the main classic image in the series, but this is still radical to have the woman be the killer in the film. It is quite a shock when she reveals that she was the killer. In the few, brief glimpses that we have of the killer before the realization, it doesn't add up to her as the perpetrator. Another great innovation is that there is a lot more suspense than one would think for this movie. Since all the killings are done before the realization, all brief shots of the killer show only a small amount of clothing that is nearly indistinguishable from everything else they are wearing. The creepiest scene is in the outhouse, where one person is looking for another, and she begins looking inside the stalls. She can't find anyone, and on the wall behind her there is a shadow of someone holding an ax and then wielding it up. She turns around and is struck in the face with the ax. We see it coming, but it works because we are waiting for the ax to come down. What is also so great is that the film sets up so many other "body count" films by introducing the idea of attacking them individually and away from anyone else. Every other slasher film to follow uses this idea to varying degrees of success.
The Bad News: There are a couple of non-kill scenes where you can tell how they made it, but other than that, this movie has no faults.
The Final Verdict: This is the greatest slasher film of all time and deserves every ounce of respect that it has. Everything about it screams classic and should not be bashed for any reason. It has something for everyone and all horror fans will want to see this at some point in their lives.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Adult Language, Brief Nudity, a mild Sex Scene, and drug use
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Post by d3M0n on Jun 16, 2006 23:00:26 GMT -5
Friday the 13thWhere it all begins... Born June 13th 1946 Jason Voorhees drownes in Camp Crystal Lake, but his body was never recoverd. The next year two Camp Counselors were murderd, the two who were supposed to be watching Jason at the time he drowned. Instead "they were making love, while that young boy drowned". Camp Crystal Lake was soon closed. Now the movie starts off in presesnt time June 13th 1979. Steve Christe spends $25,000 fixing up Camp Crystal Lake in hopes to re-open it. But for him and the 6 Camp Counselors many challenges will stand in the way. Re-opening Crystal Lake will be the last thing on there minds, as they try to stay alive in this classic, legendary icon of Horror films! A classic "Who done it?" tale of horror! One by one the counselors get murderd in a brutal fashion. Who will survive? It's a movie you can't miss! 5 Stars Out of 5! Friday the 13th was the perfect movie at the perfect time! After the opening of Halloween and it's sequal it was only time before more slasher fllicks would emerge. This one arrived with a bang! From the amazing atmosphere, the decent acting, GREAT kills (for it's time and even today) and the great characters. But it doesn't stop there, the mystery of the killings alone draws you in. As you try to figure out who the killer is, there motivation and who will survive there brutal attack. This movie delivers right to the end, with what i believe is the most famous moment in Horror movie history.They were warned they were doomed... and on Friday the 13th nothing can save them.
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Post by CK on Jun 17, 2006 14:59:32 GMT -5
I never looked at the woods again after watching this film. 5/5
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Post by Conan on Jun 18, 2006 21:35:22 GMT -5
I think this was the first slasher movie I ever seen. 5 from me too.
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Post by wolfspirit on Jun 19, 2006 8:43:50 GMT -5
4/5 I realy wish it had given a litle mre bakstory more early on but otherwise its awsome
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Post by GL on Jun 19, 2006 11:32:52 GMT -5
Couldn't agree more. Excellant deaths, plenty of gore, high amount of suspense, and the birthplace for so many slasher rules in the genre. Just as important to the landscape of horror as Halloween.
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Post by HNT on Jun 21, 2006 21:53:26 GMT -5
4 from me. a blatant and unimaginative Halloween ripoff that really stumbles clumsily with the sex = death formula. It has some great kills, and Savini's effects save it from being too bad, though
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Post by GL on Jun 22, 2006 11:54:43 GMT -5
I, too, would've like more on that anaylsis, but you take what you get with this one.
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Post by prakticar on Jun 30, 2006 3:06:13 GMT -5
I agree
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Post by GL on Jul 6, 2006 10:27:02 GMT -5
Nice.
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Post by speeddemon on Aug 16, 2006 9:23:32 GMT -5
not a big fan of friday 13th series , i remember seeing this one years ago and just recently watched it again thinking maybe my thoughts would have changed . they haven't . it's an ok movie .
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Post by GL on Aug 16, 2006 11:04:18 GMT -5
Hey, that's fine. Not all are fans. I know plenty of horror fans who despise the series, so it's all good.
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Post by Canetoad on Aug 16, 2006 17:42:56 GMT -5
Also one of Toad's first, so a very soft spot for this one. A 5 - partly for sentimental reasons.
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Post by GL on Aug 16, 2006 18:46:26 GMT -5
Good reason.
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