Coventry Review of Saturday the 14th

Saturday the 14th (1981)

Is this supposed to be funny? Or scary? ...Or anything at all?

[1/10 · 31 October 2005]

Oh yeah...we have a winner! This has got to be most retarded movie I've ever seen! I don't care whether it was meant to be accessible for younger viewers or not, this "spoof" stands for everything that gives the horror genre a bad name! Amateurish and terribly lame rubbish that doesn't even seem to know what it's poking fun at. Judging by the title, you'd think that the screenplay mercilessly attacks the box-office hit "Friday the 13th" and all its brainless clones, but it's not even mentioning a masked killer. Instead, we have a family of unintelligent souls inheriting a house stuffed with monsters. When Junior opens a book he shouldn't have, the countdown for the end of the world has begun. The only kind of "special effects" are a bunch of idiots who volunteered to dress up like silly monsters in cheap-looking costumes. I counted one remotely funny gag ("damn owls...") and all the other jokes and witty lines were embarrassingly dire. I truly hope that cast and crew were really proud to be a part of this turkey. Avoid at all costs.