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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 22, 2012
Pros: good effects, likable characters, mystery
Cons: derivative
Summary: Originally conceived as a Halloween rip-off for the purpose of making some quick cash, director Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th would inspire ten sequels, a TV series, a remake, and an army of imitators. The original ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2011
Pros: Death Scenes, Atmosphere, Music, Location, Ending
Cons: Dialogue, Cast, Slow Pace, Characters, Budget
Summary: The Friday the 13th is the most successful horror franchise of all time. The franchise boasts 12 films, including a crossover with Nightmare on Elm Street and a remake. The name Friday the 13th has been etched into everybody's minds. 40 years later, the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 5, 2010
Pros: Simple and effective plot.
Cons: Not much substance.
Summary: Friday the 13th is two things. Simple and effective. There’s not a huge degree of plot involved. There’s no real compelling story and there’s not even much mystery. What there is, is a lot of young adults in a secluded location ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 21, 2009
Pros: good make up effects, a few interesting moments
Cons: boring, campy last third, no payoff
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 14, 2009
Pros: Murder Sequences, Setting, Music
Cons: Acting, Drawn Out Plot, Poor Characters, Lack Of Fear
Summary: Friday the 13th is a film that has more flaws than pros, whether or not hardcore Friday fans like to admit it. The movie has the word "flaw" written all over it, yet I still enjoy watching it. I am a fan of 80s slasher movies, and Friday the 13th is ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2008
Pros: Suprisingly effective horror in places.
Cons: Random acts of murder may not be for everyone.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2007
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.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 9, 2007
Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Friday the 13th was one of great chain of horror movies but like everything it had to come to an end oddly enough it hasn't people still make crappy sequels but the new one coming out might have some promise like when rob zombie redid Halloween was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 31, 2006
Pros: Fun slasher, great surprise shock, scenery, good music
Cons: acting, direction
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 19, 2006
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 20, 2006
Pros: Great atmospherics, Manfredini's score, created Jason
Cons: Not exactly original, some cliches.
Summary: Friday the 13th is not unique. There are hundreds of movies out there with the same premise - teenagers who indulge in sex & fun by the lake get butchered by some avenging-maniac. Most of these movies are shockingly poor efforts at film-making, few of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 6, 2006
Pros: Lots of atmosphere and suspense, great death scenes.
Cons: Slow-paced, might be boring to some, almost no Jason Voorhees.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 26, 2005
Pros: Classic, pretty scary, gory, and pretty good acting.
Cons: the shots were not to good, and there is some other stuff.
Summary: I of course own this movie, because its one of the best. Its a little simialer to the second, because you don't know who the killer is util the end. Mrs. Voorhees however was an excellent killer. She new what she was doing. This one was a big mystery, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 15, 2004
Pros: Nicely shot, good gore effects
Cons: Poor character writing, lame fight at the climax
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 1, 2004
Pros: Some cool deaths
Cons: Acting, drawn-out, boring, idiotic characters, boring, nonsensical ending, did I mention boring?
Summary: You
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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. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 22, 2003
Pros: Some good scares, gore is cool, great plot, Cunningham, Bacon, Palmer
Cons: Most of the kills are repetitive, a bit predictable
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 28, 2003
Pros: Despite It's Low Quality Everything It's Still Entertaining
Cons: Most People Loathe Friday the 13th
Summary: There are few to no movies that by themselves pretty much define a whole era of cinema history in th ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 18, 2003
Pros: A true classic in its own bloody way.
Cons: Implausibilities, underdeveloped characters, hokey dialogue . . . but do these things really matter?
Summary: I have to confess to having a certain nostalgia for the original Friday the 13th. When I was a teenager, I was a huge fan of the slasher genre. I must have seen every single slasher movie made in the late 70s and early 80s. I have seen Prom Night, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 17, 2002
Pros: Tom Savini's makeup effects, intro to Kevin Bacon.
Cons: Pacing. Quite tame horror in this day and age.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 26, 2002
Pros: Chilling, thrilling...a classic
Cons: None
Summary: Camp Crystal Lake, a peaceful , quiet, camp ground with a pure crystal lake as the name fits so well was always so down to earth. The type of place where you would want to run away to for a while. But on a dreadful day when young Jason drowned in the ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2002
Pros: Friday is widely acclaimed to have the most horrifying, murder sequences for its time.
Cons: Jason fans beware you will NOT see the murderous one in this original.
Summary: Friday is widely acclaimed to have the most horrifying, and creative murder sequences for its time. Filmed with a small $700,000 dollar budget, the movie actually stayed in theaters for almost an entire year! To gross an unexpected $40 million dollars, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2002
Pros: A horror classic that stands the test of time.
Cons: none
Summary: You know its theme music by heart, you know something bad is about to happen to each camper one by one they disappear (usually having premarital sex or leaving any common sense they had back at home before they left to go to camp),and you know it can ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2002
Pros: Impossibility
Cons: Impossibility
Summary: I am going to attempt to dicipher the entire string of movies. I spent a week watching all the Friday the 13th movies(including Jason goes to Hell) at the pace of one a night. There was a marathon on one of the pay channels that let us watch the first ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 11, 2001
Pros: Realistic gore, effective final shock
Cons: derivative as hell
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 30, 2001
Pros: Great story, has lots of suspense and scary moments. Cool deaths and special effects.
Cons: None.
Summary: "Friday the 13" is the ultimate 80's horror movie. As we all know the 80's were full of horror/slasher movies. Most of them were duds. But one I think stood out the most. It was Friday the 13th. What I think is one of the best horror films of the 80's. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 24, 2001
Pros: A good plot and a great ending
Cons: N/A
Summary: This horror flick is pretty much like all other films with one theme...run away from the killer or kill him yourself if you can. This film has a basic plot like all the others and some great acting also. The main plot in this film is that an ax ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 27, 2001
Pros: The horror movie that started it all
Cons: The whole story was not told in the movie
Summary: I don’t think there is one true horror movie fan that has not seen the horror movie of all horror movies. The horror movie that pretty much started it all, “Friday the 13th.” Even if someone didn’t see the actual movie, I am sure that they have heard ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 16, 2001
Pros: Good story, deaths, killer
Cons: Not very developed characters, way too many bad imitations followed
Summary: This the first movie of the classic nine(soon to be ten)part legacy of Friday the 13th.
Although most people associate the F13 movies with the hockey masked Jason, this one is very different. In this movie an unknown killer is stalking counselors ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2001
Pros: Tense finale, Betsy Palmer, good special
effects
Cons: not terribly involving, kinda slow and
boring
Summary: Friday the 13TH was released in 1980 and was huge hit with
audiences around the country. Most critics were harsh and
unkind to this movie saying it was just an exercise in teen
bloodletting, sex, and stupidity. Partly, they are correct ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 15, 2000
Pros: Adrienne King, better-than-average supporting cast
Cons: Low budget
Summary: Despite its low budget and worthless sequels, the original "Friday The 13th" stands out among the crowd of blatant ripoffs of "Halloween".
Without giving away the ending (for the three of you out there who haven't seen it), ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 13, 2000
Pros: Unrated, Uncensored, Uncut
Cons: picture was grainy, and washed out
Summary: As I have stated in the title, I have come to be wondering around the net, and I stumbled upon ebay. On the site, they were selling an UNCUT, UNRELEASED, UNRATED, version on Friday the 13th on Laser Disc. Low and behold, I have a laser disc player. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 13, 2000
Pros: Scarey!
Cons: None
Summary: There are movies that set the pace of cult status, in the horror movie genre, and this was one of them. I sincerely doubt that when this was made, they knew what they had in it. This is the king of the slasher movies, making way for something more ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2000
Pros: Classic Horror Movie Slasher with Great Ending
Cons: Victims are stupid, but they always are!
Summary: This movie is, and should be considered one of the best horror movies of all time. This movie, (and Halloween) set the principles that most past and current horror movies revolve around. Some one gets killed, and then more people start dying based on ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 15, 2000
Pros: A classic horror film, with just enough blood and gore.
Cons: Fans of Jason may be disappointed.
Summary: This is the movie that started it all. A classic in the horror genre, Friday the 13th provides plenty of chills and gore to appease even the most picky of horror fans.
When a young boy drowns at Camp Crystal Lake, the local summer camp, bad ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 20, 2000
Pros: very good suspense and thrilling gore and a good mystery
Cons: may look kind of dated for today's standards
Summary: The original "Friday The 13th" movie is a good suspense shocker that started the whole series and inspired a lot of other stories, films, and series. The original was directed by Sean S. Cunningham himself. He also directed the last film in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 24, 2000
Pros: It's fun to see fake murders.
Cons: Most of the sequels and the countless ripoffs that followed.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 4, 2000
Pros: Tom Savini's effects, unparalleled
Cons: Kevin Bacon (just kidding)
Summary: In 1980, director Sean Cunningham brought us a slasher film that would spawn a huge series of maniacal, relentless bloodletting.
Friday the 13th takes us to Camp Crystal Lake, a property that has become cursed by local folklore and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2000
Pros: The original slasher of all slasher flicks
Cons: a tad cheesy by today's standards
Summary: Well, I guess we know what side of the family Jason inherited his killing ability from. Contrary to popular belief, Jason makes no appearance in the first of this long-running series, save for the very end. Instead, we meet Jason’s mother, the actual ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 27, 2000
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
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 16, 2000
Pros: The only real good one that can even be considered a real movie
Cons: Story is a little weak
Summary: Over the past twenty years, FRIDAY THE 13TH has become somewhat of an institution in film. There are so many sequels that have exactly the same premise, one might wonder why Paramount doesn't just re-release the first one to theaters rather than ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2000
Pros: Eerie Location, Low Budget Set Fits The Mood
Cons: Poor Script and Acting
Summary: Friday the 13th was my second horror movie when I was young, just behind "Parasite" (which contained the first nudity I'd ever seen in film). Thus was the beginning of my infatuation with horror films, good and bad. Looking back, this one ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 20, 2000
Pros: a horror classic, frightening
Cons: Crummy plot
Summary: I first watched this film alone at night, and I really enjoyed it. The plot isn't the greatest, but what do you expect from a horror film? Realizing that this film was made to scare, it does its duty, and does it well.
A bit about the plot (or ... read more
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