Friday the 13th - Part 1

Pros: It works...
Cons: ...though not in superlative ways.

Friday the 13th is an unimpressive production that nevertheless gets the job done. No one would ever mistake it for high art, yet considering its quite-modest aspirations, it fulfills its obligations more often than not. The name of the game here ...

Pros: Suprisingly effective horror in places.
Cons: Random acts of murder may not be for everyone.

Ah, John Carpenter - what have you unleashed upon us? Actually I can tell you exactly what: a golden age of horror movies, where for the period of about 5 years from 1979 to about 1985-ish, a low end producer with a tiny budget (and some talented effects ...

Pros: when viewed in its historical context (without thinking of all the dreck it inspired) it's not too bad
Cons: some bad acting, pedestrian direction

Friday the 13th: Paramount Pictures/ Warner Bros. Home Video
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: R

It’s doubtful that even director Sean S. Cunningham (A Stranger is Watching, DeepStar Six) could have imagined...

Pros: Despite It's Low Quality Everything It's Still Entertaining
Cons: Most People Loathe Friday the 13th

There are few to no movies that by themselves pretty much define a whole era of cinema history in th ...

Pros: Fun slasher, great surprise shock, scenery, good music
Cons: acting, direction

Since today is Halloween I found it an appropriate day to write this review. I wanted it to be on Halloween but I’ve already reviewed that. Friday the 13th is a movie people will usually either love or hate it. Although I don’t ...

Pros: Some good scares, gore is cool, great plot, Cunningham, Bacon, Palmer
Cons: Most of the kills are repetitive, a bit predictable

Introduction Whenever you think of “slasher” films or horror movies, the guy in the hockey mask always pops into your head. Jason Voorhees, the dude in the mask, has become one of the most popular horror icons of our time besides ...

Pros: The last 10 minutes, where time is finally taken to develop a menacing storyline
Cons: Dragged out; Low-grade acting; Occasional special effect glitches

Quick Note: For irrelevant reasons, this review has been delayed in the writing, so please disregard the date reference and such. How creepy was thing going to be? Friday the 13th was this past Friday, so what better way to get some ...

Pros: Some cool deaths
Cons: Acting, drawn-out, boring, idiotic characters, boring, nonsensical ending, did I mention boring?

You ’re Just Plain Wrong… a W/O that encourages us to take a product where praise has been lavished upon it, then rip it to shreds. Truth be told, I wasn’t planning to review Friday The 13th for this W/O. ...

Pros: good make up effects, a few interesting moments
Cons: boring, campy last third, no payoff

Film critic Alex Jackson suggests that the Friday the 13th series, as a collective whole, is one of the great cinematic experiences. This certainly came as a shock to me, as I have always been of the popular mindset that if you've seen one ...

Pros: Tom Savini's makeup effects, intro to Kevin Bacon.
Cons: Pacing. Quite tame horror in this day and age.

Of all the decades that film has been through, the late seventies is probably my least favorite for all genres. Stories were prolonged, pacing is abysmally slow and well, I just don't like them.

I am not really a slasher film fan, although I...

Pros: Lots of atmosphere and suspense, great death scenes.
Cons: Slow-paced, might be boring to some, almost no Jason Voorhees.

When it comes to slasher films of the most primal kind, the Friday The 13th series is arguably the most popular. Whereas Halloween focused on the suspense and tension and had rock-solid character development, and A Nightmare On Elm Street featured ...

Pros: Decent plot, dark cinematography, above-average direction, great gore, wonderful ending, great special effects.
Cons: Mediocre acting, not enough character development, Marcie's boobs just aren't big enough.

This film was Sean Cunningham's Friday the 13th, an obvious cash-in on the coattails of the success of John Carpenter's "king of all slashers" Halloween, released two years earlier in 1978. This sounds like a bad thing, but it really isn't ...

Pros: It's fun to see fake murders.
Cons: Most of the sequels and the countless ripoffs that followed.

For most movie addicts, there are several movies they can pinpoint as milestones; movies they saw when they were young, movies they saw when they weren't allowed to see them, and especially movies in which an assembly line of cardboard characters are...

Pros: Realistic gore, effective final shock
Cons: derivative as hell

You can imagine the pitch; it’s like Halloween……except in the woods!

Friday The 13th is the story of a New Jersey summer camp closed down for nearly twenty years due to its bloody and violent history.
At the outset of the film (after a...

Pros: Nicely shot, good gore effects
Cons: Poor character writing, lame fight at the climax

THE (burial) PLOT Friday the 13th opens in 1958 with the brutal murder of two counsellors at Camp Crystal Lake. The film then flashes forward to June 13, 1980, as the camp (now referred to as "Camp Blood" by the locals) reopens, and a new group of ...