Day 25: Friday the 13th (1980)
“You’re Doomed! You’re all doomed!”
Like with metformin er 500mg weight loss several of the slasher flicks of the ’80s, if Friday the 13th were released today it would tank. Why? Because there isn’t a story. Once the word gets out that a movie has a practically non-existent story that’s only purpose is to mildly connect each kill to the next, the movie is DOA. Friday the 13th is the greatest offender of this, but the direction is so good that it doesn’t matter that there isn’t a story until the last fifteen minutes of the movie.
Friday the 13th plays out metformin hcl and pregnancy like 90 minutes of hell for the teens working at the infamous Camp Crystal Lake, with a prologue and setup for what would end up being one of the legendary horror franchises starring the machete-wielding killer, Jason Voorhees. The premise is simple and it plays out predictably, but Sean Cunningham’s direction pushes the film into classic territory, because he preys on our fear that someone is watching us, stalking us and wants to kill us, and by catering to the filmic technique of never showing the killer until the end, the film pays off amazingly. It doesn’t matter if the story sucks, because Cunningham sells it, and that’s why the film has phenomenal re-playability.
If you’re in the mood for a campy, dated, fun slasher, I’d say skip the embarrassing pseudo-reboot and go right to the original.
Bonus: You get to see Kevin Bacon die in a horribly gruesome way. That’s always a plus, I guess!
