Review of Friday the 13th (1980) by Sketchesofplain — 18 Jun 2017
Clearly a cash-in on the style that Halloween popularized, Friday The 13th is FAR inferior to that which it attempts to emulate. Halloween is suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat thrilling. Friday The 13th seems to have none of that.
It loses a lot in never showing you anything of the killer, besides a hand at the beginning, until the big reveal. Another major issue is that while Halloween had a foreboding killer with seemingly no motive, Friday The 13th presents their killer the same way, until the big reveal, where we are told the backstory and "reasoning" for all of the horror.
Because of this "hidden" backstory, the opening sequence seems confusing and pointless, as does much of the film. The combination of never showing the killer and trying to have an explanatory backstory really takes most of what make Halloween so good away from this film.
What's left is a group of characters you don't care about and a series of fairly uncreative deaths. It's amazing that this film started such a huge franchise and led to the birth of one of the most iconic horror characters of all time.
This review of Friday the 13th (1980) was written by Sketchesofplain on 18 Jun 2017.
Friday the 13th has generally received mixed reviews.
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