Friday the 13th (1980)

[happyfilmluvguy]

I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought this was the coolest movie around when I was young, only to view it at a later age, thinking to myself "why did I ever like this movie :eusa_doh: "

And I just realized that today is Friday the 13th. Second one this year.

What is your take on this classic slasher film?

 

[RBH]

I have to say I loved it..
But my fav was and is HalloweeN.
That said ,I have read talk that there are plans to 're-imagine' the film in the same way Rob Zombie has done with the afore mentioned HalloweeN.
It may be a way for us fans to have something to look forward to in that genre. It looks as if Zombie has done himself good with his effort On the Myers saga.
I guess we will see.

 

[jake_fink]

Loved it at the time.... not so much when I stopped being thirteen. [huh]


Funny that Jason was only there for the "Carrie moment" while it was his mum, Betsy Palmer, who did all the heavy stabbing.

If it came out now they'd call it F13 or something, and it wouldn't be Bing's little boy Harry getting arrowed, it would be one of those girls who can't remember to put on underpants and possibly Shasta Au Jus.

 

[Feraud]

I was never crazy about it or the sequels it spawned.
I am a Halloween man myself.

 

[Lady Day]

fftopic:

Rob Zombie is 'remaking' Halloween. There is something 'Tim Burton/Planet of the Apes' wrong with that. *shutter*

LD

 

[Feraud]

fftopic:

Rob Zombie is 'remaking' Halloween. There is something 'Tim Burton/Planet of the Apes' wrong with that. *shutter*

LD

Right. While we are off topic.. is anyone else sick of these origin themed storylines? I recall reading the Halloween remake is going to contain an Michael Myers origin storyline.
There was a recent Hannibal Lecter film that did this too.
Lame.

 

[Lady Day]

If you cant think (cause its too expensive to hire a good writer) of a new idea, tell the beginning of an old worn out one

LD

Sorry to derail your thread Happy

 

[Trampilot]

I've never been a big fan of Friday the 13th. Although it had all the ingredients to make me like it I only managed to see it after watching all the clones .. in fact I saw Part 6 before any of the others. So, by the time I got round to No.1 then it wasn't very original. Shame really.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The first time I saw Friday the 13th was as a rental from a video store. I remember being scared out of my wits and renting the rest of the serious. When Jason X was released I watched with anticipation. It has it's moment like the rest, though I can't say there was any reason for the risque scenes.

 

[Doh!]

I never was a fan of the Jason movies. Probably because I was such a huge Halloween fan and saw him as a lame ripoff of Michael Myers ("we'll just have our own version of a silent killer of teenagers. Don't worry about style or even any genuine scares.")

Sorry to rain on anyone's parade if he's a favorite. Though I might eventually rent Freddy vs. Jason someday -- Freddy sometimes cracks me up.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

If you cant think (cause its too expensive to hire a good writer) of a new idea, tell the beginning of an old worn out one

LD

Sorry to derail your thread Happy

fftopic: Not at all. Good writers are all around. They sit at home, in the park, in a library or classroom. Knock on your neighbors door and ask if they write stories.

I never was a fan of the Jason movies. Probably because I was such a huge Halloween fan and saw him as a lame ripoff of Michael Myers ("we'll just have our own version of a silent killer of teenagers. Don't worry about style or even any genuine scares.")

Sorry to rain on anyone's parade if he's a favorite. Though I might eventually rent Freddy vs. Jason someday -- Freddy sometimes cracks me up.

Not raining at all. Freddy vs. Jason is definitely worth looking at (I own a copy). As for being a "ripoff", it was the trend of the late 70s and most of the 80s. Slasher films were just popular.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I never got into slasher flicks. But, I did like 13th's afterbirth, Saturday the 14th.

"Let's see who's skeletons are in her closet." *opens closet door and is dragged into closet by skeletons*

Lee
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[carebear]

I didn't like it, or most slasher films, because the killer's physics lacked internal consistency and the characters consistently and repeatedly made the worst, most illogical, choices they could.

I can take making a few mistakes, that's human, but to do everything wrong, to the point where you do nothing but make your situation worse? That removes any interest for me.

I have a little more respect for Halloween in that regard.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

i'm a halloween guy...even got the michael myers mask...friday the 13th was ok though...the only reason i watched any of the sequels to halloween or friday the 13th was because they always thought up new and gory and mostly farfetched ways to...eliminate people...lol gotta love the old slashers...

 

[Story]

It was a dark and stormy night...

Debra Hill (scriptwriter) was born in Haddonfield NJ and I have a gut feeling she heard about Ancorra Village as a kid
http://www.stuofdoom.com/ancora.html
One (of many) tales was that someone from the hospital got out one night and had themselves a pyschotic party, working their way through the neighborhood of 50 or so homes and racking up a body count that would have impressed Michael Myers.
The community was abandoned in the 1970s (just before Hill went to Hollywood) and reoccupied in the 1980s, only to be abandoned in the 1990s (can we say 'sequel', kids? sure we can).
http://www.lostinjersey.com/psych/ancora.html