Sadly Over-hyped

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The first must-see film of the year.

'Friday the 13th' may have been panned by critics when first released but since then it is one of the most famous and influential horror films, the franchise containing one of horror's most iconic villains. The film is popular enough to become a franchise and spawn several sequels of varying quality and generally inferior to the one that started it all of. Is 'Friday the 13th' an original film in terms of overall story? No, having been, and still is, compared to 'Halloween' (released two years earlier). One can see why somewhat, it is derivative in a way but to me it didn't come over as a direct rip off. 'Friday the 13th' is far from the best when it comes to acting, excepting Betsy Palmer (very good) and Adrienne King (charming). The others are average at best, though it was interesting to see Kevin Bacon in an early role pre-stardom.Nor is it the best when it comes to dialogue. Much of it is very crude and cheesy. Or character development, while the characters are actually still easy to sympathise with to some extent they are stereotypes that we don't know an awful lot about generally. However, while it may not be a "great" film, 'Friday the 13th' is great guilty pleasure fun and it is very easy to understand its popularity and influence. It's very gory and gruesome, though not pointlessly so, but it is also very frightening and suspenseful. This is apparent in the deaths, which couldn't have been more creative or shocking, and the hauntingly eerie music score. 'Friday the 13th' is assuredly directed and moves along at a lively pace. The late reveal is for the better and works very well. The climax is a long way from a petering out one, instead the film goes out on a very strong bang, right up to the unexpected and freaky final jolt clearly inspired by 'Carrie'. Overall, good fun and very scary even if not exactly classified as great. 7/10 Bethany Cox

i was so much looking forward to this horror but to my dismay realised id neglected to pick up any roast beef flavoured monster munch which i simply must have for my movie nights, lol. anyway, the title reminds me of a Friday the 13th where i decided to scare my best friend terry boxhill. clad in hockey mask and wielding an axe i stole from work i snuck in his house and belted him really hard with it in his leg. i didn't mean to hit him so hard really but we got him to the hospital but he wouldn't stop screaming and pointing at me, face aghast and puce. as he was screaming at me i shouted back "we will laugh about this someday terry" but we still haven't.

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning. From the many horror films of the 80's i think that this is without a doubt the worst of them all. The marketing is out of place with the Poster where it makes you think that it's Jason who kills all of those kids but in fact it's his mother, the acting is terrible, the kills are predictable (poor Kevin Bacon). The characters are thin and the overall story is boring of course the Franchise became worse with each installment but this one i think it's very overrated as it is. And the fact that a bunch of teenagers can't kill an old woman makes it even more ridiculous and if there's a good thing about it? It's the final shot of Jason getting out of the water and drag a woman inside the water but other than that? It's not something special to brag about. (0/10)

Quite impressive picture with only some dirt on the print. The sound isn't that great and lacks definition but who cares as this is a great slasher film! It was strong enough to start a legacy but there is little here that the legacy is famous for. Reminiscent of Halloween (1978) but changes the formula to be more fun. It has kitsch value and cheap thrills. The gore is excellent, like really nasty. My favourite are the first four. The start of a franchise but it isn't the best in the series, greatness awaits