Tuesday 27 September 2011

Friday the 13th

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Year:1980
Country of origin:USA
Director:Sean S. Cunningham
Genre:Slasher
Starring:Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King
Rating:4/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/
Tagline:On Friday The 13th, They Began To Die Horribly, One......By One
Favourite line:"Kill her, Mommy! Kill her! Don't let her get away, Mommy! Don't let her live!"

Clearly influenced by the success of Halloween, this is nevertheless an effective Slasher movie.

You know the story:
A group of kids go to a camp by Crystal Lake to have fun, drink, have sex, and generally seek the disapproval of the killer.
One by one they are picked off until only the virtuous survive.
Simple yet effective, with genuinely creepy music, this is the one before Jason becomes the stalker.

It has been said that this movie franchise single-handedly saved Paramount pictures from going under in the bad old days, as this raked in the cash from drive-in theatres across North America.
Enjoyable nonsense.

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