sumana-m21 Review of Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th (1980)

Boring, predictable and not an intense thriller.

[4/10 · 21 February 2009]

This movie came out almost 30 years ago which makes me feel it does not have much of an effect on people watching the movie nowadays. In 1980 when it first came out it must have been a little better than avg release. But I got the feeling it was a little slow to begin with, characters did not really die very creepily, they were killed one by one, just being knocked out except the last one. But why? Why was Alice spared and given a chance to fight back unlike the others? Only to introduce the killer? That doesn't do much justice. I would rather have had more chasing screaming scenes which would have had me jumping out of my seat. And with the horrifying sounds effects in theaters these days, this movie did not the least bit creep me out. Some of the scenes had bodies being thrown through a window, a guy hanging backwards from something falling suddenly as Alice is running. lol I was laughing on that one. Like a dead guy knows when exactly to drop onto your face and make the audience scream. I just didn't feel it with this movie. I prefer the sequels to this one when Jason enters. He is surely more creepier with his mask. I give it a 4/10.