Friday the 13th

 

        

          Since I was already going back and revisiting the excellence of the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, I suddenly realized I must make a point in my miserable life to finally sit down and watch the original Friday the 13th movies at least watch the first-three films since they're only on Peacock streaming service. Now I don't know if I was depressed watching all of Alien Resurrection but for some odd, I felt extremely bored from beginning to the very end of the movie. Granted this film took all the concepts of John Carpenter's Halloween and took them to a whole new level of slasher movies that we all know and love, and sure this movie isn't all perfect and part of me wants this movie to be fun and great but yet at the same time the kills wasn't all the great in my opinion.

          Crystal Lake's history of murder doesn't deter counselors from setting up a summer camp in the woodsy area. Superstitious locals warn against it, but fresh-faced young kids pay little heed to the old-timers warning (as all young kids do-basic human nature). They later find themselves stalked by a brutal killer (not Jason). As they're slashed, shot and stabbed, the counselors struggle to stay alive against a merciless opponent. 

           Sean S. Cunningham who produced and directed the original Friday the 13th, was inspired by John Carpenter's first Halloween movie, and wanted to make a movie that was shocking, visually stunning and make you jump out of the edge of set, for which really this movie has all the elements in the very first Friday the 13th film, though sadly doesn't have that jump scare, either that or I'm just way to old and feel like I'm seeing every horror movie I've come across. Granted this movie has a small budget of 550,000-650,000 dollar budget and sure it introduces some shocking and gory aspects to it, as well as premarital sex scenes in the movie so if you’re a young boy now and want to watch something with naked women this was one of those movies that you'd want to watch but you can't tell you own parents. And that's the interesting aspect is you can look at this movie from the time of the film’s release and every generation to now, the kids today would discover nudity through watching these movies without parents telling you not to watch them while my generation our parents would tell you not to watch and you want to watch those movies and try to find sneaky ways to watch the movies while you're parents are either not watching you or went to bed early. Full disclosure I actually had a double feature by accident after watching Alien Resurrection and proceeded to watch Friday the 13th and may have some sense of boredom and frustration when watching Friday the 13th and wanted to hate it, but deep down this movie isn't all bad just has some boring scares as well as not a whole lot of jump scares, which at times I wish would have it but doesn't though granted the movie is 90 minutes so it at least gets to the point and not waste a whole lot of time with character development. To the movie's credit, prosthetic make-up artist and stunt performer, Tom Savini who's infamous in numerous films with makeup and special effects as well as stunt work but also remembered (in a sense) as Sex Machine in From Dusk till Dawn. Furthermore, has done a lot of the gory kills like the infamous Kevin Bacon kill with an arrow to the through the neck is impressive but more importantly works and Tom Savini gets a lot of credit for making a ton of those shocking kills that gives this film the edge it deserves, and we all love today. This film alone consists of 90 minutes in all fairness you can have your own personal slasher movie double feature and can still be entertained from beginning to the very end. The movie alone is not perfect, which a lot of movies aren't these days but there are times, I admit that I need to turn my brain off and act like I haven't seen a movie before. So, if you're looking for a fun Halloween double feature late at night, I would recommend watching Friday the 13th although if you haven't seen the first Scream, don't before you sit down and watch Friday the 13th first.