tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667410643073985006.post2042689565649664379..comments2024-02-05T03:04:14.407+01:00Comments on A Film A Day: Friday the 13th (1980)Sonia Cercahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07313734872038610058noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667410643073985006.post-62085822453904382452015-10-14T22:43:03.938+02:002015-10-14T22:43:03.938+02:00Ah such a shame to know this one didn't work o...Ah such a shame to know this one didn't work out for you even though it is a well known classic. I know that the majority of movies based off of this one these days are actually comedies, so maybe this was intending to be Olivia's Catastrophehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12706765857201768908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667410643073985006.post-44407361224346285522015-10-02T13:46:18.656+02:002015-10-02T13:46:18.656+02:00Aside from Betsy Palmer's performance, there i...Aside from Betsy Palmer's performance, there is practically NO good acting in the entire franchise. These movies aren't exactly attracting high caliber thespians. It's low-budget schlock cinema that entered our collective conscience at the right time. Yes, in 1980, this film had a far different effect than it does now. For one, most of those cliches you mentioned were put into play by this movie, and Halloween, which it gleefully and wonderfully ripped off. The graphic nature of the violence was also fairly new, and along with the sex and drugs sparked quite the controversy back then. It was actually debated on Nightline whether or not it should be banned. Of course, that just made people want to see it even more. Audiences hadn't seen anything quite like it, before. Yes, there was Halloween, but Friday the 13th took the concept to absurdists extremes.In those extremes is where it excels. It's dark comedy drenched in its morbid sense of humor. The stupidity of the victims, the abundance of convenient problems they face (like the car not starting), and the inventiveness of the kills all make it a twisted good time. And that music is damn unnerving. With all that in play, it's become something that is at least as influential as Halloween, if not more in helping spawn the slasher genre. So many movies after this would follow the template of a masked man stalking teens/young adults in an isolated location who are just there to party. If you haven't guessed, I'm a huge fan of this movie. That said, if you're just seeing it 35 years after the fact and probably having seen dozens, maybe hundreds of horror flicks, and being a discerning viewer the film's flaws stand out far more than they did in the genre's infancy from whence it came. I mean, the things you point out are fair. I just tend to overlook them, either due to nostalgia or having developed a twisted sense of humor.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.com