11/27/2023 0 Comments Friday the 13th filmSean Cunningham, who never gained the reputations of Wes Craven or John Carpenter, does muster a chilling nastiness about the ensuing cull. In a strange way, this film stands unique amongst all slasher films as one where the killer is nearly intangible. As the bodies pile up amongst this testy crowd of horny teens, there remains a vacant hole were someone scary should be. People tend to forget that this original lacks the remorseless presence of Jason himself, blanked off with a hockey mask, who we are told drowned as a small retarded boy in 1957 while his camp councillors are otherwise occupied. In reality it is a pallid Halloween rip-off, with a mediocre shock count and a botched ending. The film that launched a long and rusty franchise of teenage slaughter (12 episodes if you count the gimmick addition of Freddy Vs Jason), this cheapo horror stands as one of the principal markers for the whole slasher phenomenon.
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