Review of Friday the 13th (1980) by Filipeneto — 28 Jun 2018

This film marks a milestone in horror cinema: the birth of Jason and the curse of Crystal Lake. It's a cult icon, it has loyal fans, but it's nothing special, although it has given birth to a terrible franchise, which has haunted the cinema since this time.

This movie does not have any difference from other camping slasher movies: an haunted camp, an ancient crime, a murderer with a large knife and a mask, naughty teenagers almost asking to be murdered in the bloodiest ways.

.. everything is quite common in slasher films. The victims deserve to die, the murderer scares no one and there is not much mystery here. The cast is no use talking because it is poor and miserable. It's a classic? Maybe.

.. but it's a bad film and I would not regret if it never existed.