Friday the 13th (1980)
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
Camp Crystal Lake is set for reopening over twenty years after a tragic drowning was followed by a grisly double murder. The counselors sent to prepare the site are now picked off one by one by a mysterious assailant.
Review:
Who would think that the studio of Von Sternberg, Lubitsch and Preston Sturges would come to this? No room for humour here, perhaps, but isn't that what was wrong with the flurry of slasher films that succeeded Halloween? (The fact they took themselves so seriously and yet were quite patently cynical attempts to procure nervous laughter and screams through dramatically contrived slaughter?) At least some humour would have been honest.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
Camp Crystal Lake is set for reopening over twenty years after a tragic drowning was followed by a grisly double murder. The counselors sent to prepare the site are now picked off one by one by a mysterious assailant.
Review:
Who would think that the studio of Von Sternberg, Lubitsch and Preston Sturges would come to this? No room for humour here, perhaps, but isn't that what was wrong with the flurry of slasher films that succeeded Halloween? (The fact they took themselves so seriously and yet were quite patently cynical attempts to procure nervous laughter and screams through dramatically contrived slaughter?) At least some humour would have been honest.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon
Synopsis:
Camp Crystal Lake is set for reopening over twenty years after a tragic drowning was followed by a grisly double murder. The counselors sent to prepare the site are now picked off one by one by a mysterious assailant.
Review:
Who would think that the studio of Von Sternberg, Lubitsch and Preston Sturges would come to this? No room for humour here, perhaps, but isn't that what was wrong with the flurry of slasher films that succeeded Halloween? (The fact they took themselves so seriously and yet were quite patently cynical attempts to procure nervous laughter and screams through dramatically contrived slaughter?) At least some humour would have been honest.