| MOVIE TITLE Friday The 13th DEBUT YEAR 1980 RUNTIME 95 minutes DIRECTOR Sean S. Cunningham CAST Adrienne King, Harry Crosby (II), Betsy Palmer RATING 10/10 DATE REVIEWED August 18, 2002 REVIEWED BY Crz |
| Plot Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lurking in the woods, spying on the happy campers, and plotting a gory, grisly revenge on those who would disturb the camp's slumber. |
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| Review On a lazy sunlit day in 1957, a little boy drowns in woodsy Camp Crystal Lake because the two counselors on duty are making love instead of doing their job. A year later, these two counselors are savagely murdered. The camp is closed down and that of course is that.... Fast forward to 1980. Steve Christy is doing his best to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, having hired six nubile counselors who are all on their way to help with the preparations on Friday the 13th, which just happens to be the birthday of the little boy who drowned. One by one these counselors are systematically slaughtered by someone who doesn't want the camp reopened. Annie is a perky young lass hitchhiking up to camp; unfortunately she accepts a ride from the wrong stranger and realizes her mistake too late. "Hey, wasn't that the road to Camp Crystal Lake back there?" The jeep merely accelerates. "Please stop! Please stop!" Annie finally catapults herself out of the speeding vehicle into a ditch. Her leg sprained, she manages to get to her feet just as the jeep backs up toward her and stops. She flees into the woods, while the black-trousered killer follows swiftly. Annie limps through the forest to a tree and leans back...only to see, to her horror, that her fate is sealed: a dagger is ripped across her throat, slicing it open. Night falls and Marcie, a panty-clad lithe counselor, is alone in the restroom washing her hands when she hears a noise. "Ollie-ollie-in-free!" she giggles, yanking back the shower curtains. Then a shadow appears. Marcie cowers in the shower stall as an axe guillotines downward in a scintillating arc, splitting her head open like a ripe melon. The remaining counselors are dispatched methodically by spear and by bow -and-arrow, leaving only Goody Two Shoes Alice (Adrienne King), a Doris Day clone who looks like she couldn't swat a fly. She's panicked that all the other counselors have vanished; when she discovers a bloodied corpse fastened to the door, her panic turns quickly to full-blown terror. Alice locks herself inside one of the other cabins, then is relieved to see headlights flashing through a window as a vehicle pulls in. She runs out gratefully and is relieved to see that it's alright, it's only kindly Mrs. Voorhees, who used to work at Camp Crystal Lake when she was young. But why is Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) so unafraid when Alice cries out that all her friends are dead? The fiftyish, puffy-cheeked, bug-eyed, grey-sweatered, black-trousered woman with the curly blonde hairdo seems utterly unaffected and perpetually smiling. So then Mrs. Voorhees says "Killer her mommy killer" and runs after Alice but, alice grabs the machette and chops off her head. |
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| Sounds Had the classic "Chi Chi Chi" and the chases had great sounds too. Also the sound effects were great like when Pamela says "Kill her mommy kill her" and when Alice is about to get her head chopped off. |
| Nudity We see Marcies ass crack and them her tits |
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| Comments This is the beginng of the Friday The 13th franchise will go to make nine other movies and the beginning of one of the best slasher flicks ever made. The movie was so great the sound was put in perfectly, The "Twizted" ending was great too. They way the through this move together was great. I give this classic movie 10/10 |