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Friday the 13th - Part 1 (VHS)
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Product ID: EPID3079263
Description: Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths. Now someone is lur...
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This is what a SCARY MOVIE is all about!Review created: 08/07/09(updated 08/17/09)
This is a very good movie. This movie is in my top (5) of the scariest movies of all time. 5/5 Stars! Watch it! A+
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) "You're doomed. You're all doomed," Friday 13th [1980]
Released alongside a series of slasher-movies during the late-seventies and early-eighties - including 'Halloween' and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' - all of which were influenced by the original slasher movie, 'Psycho' [1960], this particular film has since increased in popularity and earned itself classic status amongst horror fans worldwide. It has spawned no less than ten sequels [ if you include 'Freddy Vs Jason'] and a TV series.
~ Young Jason Vorhees was drowned in Crystal Lake way back in 1957. A subsequent fire and spate of murders resulted in the camp being shut down. Years later Steve Christy decides to reopen Camp Crystal Lake and hires a new group of councillors to have the place ready for the summer. Ignoring warnings from the local lunatic, they go ahead with the reopening regardless. Things seem to be going as planned until the killings begin again ~
'Friday 13th' is based on the age-old superstition that a Friday falling on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a bad omen. Victor Miller [screenwriter] picked up on this idea and along with Sean S Cunningham [dir.] completed the independent slasher film in 1980. 'Friday the 13th' has since become the most popular franchise in the history of the horror film.
The film offers teenagers indulging in sex, drugs and high jinx; an eerie setting comprising of rain-and wind-torn woods, the silent and still black lake; opposing cinematography - that of the gentle countryside come morning - and a 'whodunit' storyline that will keep you guessing until the finale. A neat twist - suggested by Tom Savini and supposedly stolen from 'Stephen King's 'Carrie' [Brian De Palma; Larry Cohen] - allows for a string of sequels that just keep coming.
With great special effects [Tom Savini - 'Creepshow' & 'The Burning'], a chilling soundtrack [stringed instruments providing a frenetically-paced tempo similar to 'Psycho'], and skillfully executed directing [right up until the end, the murder scenes are shot from the killer's point-of-view] 'Friday the 13th' will make you think twice about your next camping trip.
Stars Kevin Bacon and Betsy Palmer.
Matt Lee-Williams, Review.
Released alongside a series of slasher-movies during the late-seventies and early-eighties - including 'Halloween' and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' - all of which were influenced by the original slasher movie, 'Psycho' [1960], this particular film has since increased in popularity and earned itself classic status amongst horror fans worldwide. It has spawned no less than ten sequels [ if you include 'Freddy Vs Jason'] and a TV series.
~ Young Jason Vorhees was drowned in Crystal Lake way back in 1957. A subsequent fire and spate of murders resulted in the camp being shut down. Years later Steve Christy decides to reopen Camp Crystal Lake and hires a new group of councillors to have the place ready for the summer. Ignoring warnings from the local lunatic, they go ahead with the reopening regardless. Things seem to be going as planned until the killings begin again ~
'Friday 13th' is based on the age-old superstition that a Friday falling on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a bad omen. Victor Miller [screenwriter] picked up on this idea and along with Sean S Cunningham [dir.] completed the independent slasher film in 1980. 'Friday the 13th' has since become the most popular franchise in the history of the horror film.
The film offers teenagers indulging in sex, drugs and high jinx; an eerie setting comprising of rain-and wind-torn woods, the silent and still black lake; opposing cinematography - that of the gentle countryside come morning - and a 'whodunit' storyline that will keep you guessing until the finale. A neat twist - suggested by Tom Savini and supposedly stolen from 'Stephen King's 'Carrie' [Brian De Palma; Larry Cohen] - allows for a string of sequels that just keep coming.
With great special effects [Tom Savini - 'Creepshow' & 'The Burning'], a chilling soundtrack [stringed instruments providing a frenetically-paced tempo similar to 'Psycho'], and skillfully executed directing [right up until the end, the murder scenes are shot from the killer's point-of-view] 'Friday the 13th' will make you think twice about your next camping trip.
Stars Kevin Bacon and Betsy Palmer.
Matt Lee-Williams, Review.
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