"Friday the 13th" (1980) returning to theaters for one night in celebration of its 45th anniversary

Jason Universe, a newly-formed company, is helping put this in theaters for the anniversary. There's been rumblings that they're going to bring back the Friday the 13th video game (or create a sequel to it). There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes drama with the franchise owners which is (fingers crossed) finally being put to rest.

What would I want to see this in theaters for? Jason isn’t even in it.

Just got back from a screening of this. There was a decent crowd in my theater—probably around 25 people or so, which I didn't expect. I have seen this film probably a hundred times throughout my life, but seeing it blown up on a big screen really is a whole different experience. I noticed a lot of things that I hadn't before; for example, you can catch glimpses of Mrs. Voorhees throughout the film, which I'd never noticed in all the times I've seen the film on TV. When Ned sees the figure going into one of the cabins, you can briefly catch a glimpse of her in a black hooded rainslicker. It happens again when Steve returns to the camp and is stopped by the killer at the entrance sign. They're blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments, but they're very creepy.

It's a great slasher film, and I think it perfected the mold that "Halloween" established.

R2 EXCUSE me, bitch?

I’ve only seen the most recent update with Jared P and Danielle P.

Have not seen any other film in this series.

Don’t like horror movies at all.

The cast in this film were all very good looking, men and women alike. I've never had a thing for Kevin Bacon (I find him too traditionally handsome and just not my taste), but I have always had a crush on the token prankster Ned Rubenstein (Mark Nelson). Despite him seeking female attention throughout, his character reads as gay to me and plays more as the girls' gay best friend than a prospective love interest. Nelson himself seems gay IMO, but I don't think he's ever commented. He's also never really discussed the movie much. Kevin has talked about it on occasion.

Harry Crosby was sporting a banana in that blue speedo.

Talk about another blink and you'll miss it moment - Mark Nelson in The First Wives Club. He plays one of the two guys Diane Keaton sells her ex-husband's company to. He sports a porn mustache.

Mark Nelson was adorable. There are some great shots in this where you can see his hairy legs and lower back/ass hair when he's swimming at the lake. Bonus points for the shots of Kevin Bacon's meat in a Speedo.

Enh...like the poster said, no Jason. I mean...I get it but I'd pass.

Now, I would LOVE to see the original Halloween in a theatre. I watched it a few years ago with my roommate with the lights off, stoned out of our gourds, and we jumped quite a bit.

I saw the original run in the theatre. I loved horror films as a kid, but the graphic violence of this film was a new experience, and one I admittedly didn't like. But Kevin Bacon's light-blue speedo was nice.

Saw it at the drive in when it came out in 1980. PERFECT drive in movie (fuck I miss them). I’ve seen it many times over the decades, and wanted to watch again last night, but didn’t feel like sitting through Tubi commercials.

I always love going to special screenings of older films. When The Shining came back to theaters for two days a few years ago I went twice. Watching it on the big screen was so much better.

Same with Singin In The Rain, Carrie, Halloween, Rocky Horror etc. always enjoyable.

I even went to a screening of Valley of the Dolls a few years ago.

When BAM in Brooklyn had a weekend of James Dean (they played Rebel one day and East of Eden the next) I went to both.

R10 there are regular revival screenings of “Halloween” every year. When I was in college in NYC, I went to a showing of it at Cinema Village on Halloween one year and had a blast. A lot of independent theaters will hold screenings like this, though it’s less common for major chain theaters to do it. It seems like it’s becoming more common though in recent years (I’ve seen “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” a couple of times on the big screen, the first time at an indie theater and the second last year at a Regal of all places).

I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had “Friday the 13th” playing across the country yesterday at Regals, AMCs, and Cinemark theaters. I’d be curious to know what the ticket sales were.

It's neither tense nor frightening but tedious; ineptly made and cheap looking. Unsurprisingly It has a 22 Metrescore

Empire Kim Newman

As the bodies pile up amongst this testy crowd of horny teens, there remains a vacant hole were someone scary should be. In a strange way, this film stands unique amongst all slasher films as one where the killer is nearly intangible.

The Hollywood Reporter

Gruesome violence, in which throats are slashed and heads are split open in realistic detail, is the sum content of Friday the 13th, a sick and sickening low budget feature that is being released by Paramount. It’s blatant exploitation of the lowest order.

Time Out

A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.

Variety

Lowbudget in the worst sense – with no apparent talent or intelligence to offset its technical inadequacies – Friday the 13th has nothing to exploit but its title.

Chicago Tribune Gene Siskel

A disgusting, artless shocker...A cruel film that offers teen-age girls in peril, as well as a gruesome beheading. Only for sickies.

I always thought it was weird Pamela Voorhees' hand moves after she's been decapitated.

R15 everyone knows the film was critically panned. But it was still a hit.

The lovely and beautiful Betsy Palmer.

I mean...suspending disbelief and all that, how the fuck did Jason know where to find the final girl from the previous film? That trope STILL annoys me.

Theory is Alice went back to the camp as part of her healing. Jason saw her and followed her home. How he kept up with her of foot is questionable.

If I remember right, the original film had the closing Jason scene added on late into production. I don't believe there was ever a plan for a sequel or series of any kind, but the movie was such a box office success that Paramount rushed a followup into production immediately (Part 2 hit theaters not even a year after the first film was released). None of it really makes sense when you think about it, especially Jason's appearance as a fully-formed man when he died as a young boy, but in the end, it doesn't really matter. I think the making of most all of these films were a "flying by the seat of our pants" situation.

It’s a fucking slasher film about a dead kid coming back and murdering camp counselors.

Freddy kills you in your dreams, resulting in you really dying.

Michael Myers isn’t believable either. He’s been killed over and over and can’t die.

So complaining about believability in this one is just stupid. No one watches these movies for grounded stories and coherent writing.

[Quote] everyone knows the film was critically panned. But it was still a hit.

So? That still doesn't make it a worthwhile or interesting film. It was a surprise success for Paramount Pictures but it isn't even worth watching once. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Black Christmas and Last House on the Left all stand the test of time

I think most people acknowledge the original Friday the 13th as a horror classic at this point. I'm not saying it's high art, but it is a decently-made horror flick that I believe received a lot of backlash due to it following the trends of Halloween with the addition of more onscreen gore, which was considered extremely tasteless at the time. There are a lot of good elements in it IMO, namely the atmosphere and Harry Manfredini's iconic score. They got a lot out of the locations they used in it, and the film is steeped in atmosphere. If you want a really trashy, low-rent summer camp slasher, Sleepaway Camp fits that bill (for the record, I also enjoy that one, although it is much more artless than the original F13).

Who are you bitches remaining the lack of Jason?

Betsy Palmer gives one of the greatest, most gonzo performances in horror history! She’s hilarious and terrifying, completely unhinged and deliriously entertaining.

Her powder blue cable-knit sweater should be in the Smithsonian.

And she only took the role because her car died and she needed the cash!

R23 so? That’s what the average movie goer cares about. Having a good time. Popcorn flicks.

Read your comment at r24. Completely ridiculous and out of touch with pretentious undertones. No one expects a film like this to be art. It’s a popcorn slasher. And yes, a classic. A film doesn’t need to be “good” to become a classic.

PS its reception in modern day is very different than in 1980, and that’s happened with many films.

Always yapping but never educating yourself.

[quote]And she only took the role because her car died and she needed the cash

She was doing Same Time Next Year on Broadway at the time and thought the movie was a piece of shit that would come and go at the box office. She was stunned when it became this huge, iconic hit. Now it's the thing she's most remembered for (aside from Queen Bee for gays).

His name was Jason, and today is his birthday.

I follow Adrienne King on Instagram. She seems like a real sweetheart and looks great. She's lived in southern Oregon for a long time now, and has a small wine company there based on the film called "Crystal Lake Wines". I know she had a rough go for some time after appearing in the first two "Friday" films. She had a deranged stalker who harassed her and eventually broke into her apartment in NYC and held her at gunpoint. She essentially went into hiding for a long time, but in recent years she's really come back around to the fans and embraced it, which I'm sure wasn't easy to do.

[Quote] That’s what the average movie goer cares about. Having a good time. Popcorn flicks.

R26 speaking of popcorn on Rotten Tomatoes Friday the 13th has a underwhelming 60% Popcornmeter average based on100,000+ ratings compared to am 89% for Haloween, 82% for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and an 87% for Night of the Living Dead. Many saw it but not that many apparently thought it was outstanding.

R30 cool. Yet people keep watching it… you’re obsessed

What people R31 I don't hear people talking about this movie like I hear people talking about so many other horror films Rosemary's Baby, The Night of the Living Dead, Suspiria, The Omen, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . . . it seems like a very small group of people particularly thought it was even very good based on its audience scores.

R32 that’s YOU. Yes, people still watch it.

Sick of the retarded comments from someone who didn’t even go to college.

Am I the only one who fantasized about getting spit-roasted by Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees? At some point during my early teens, my fear turned to lust. Of course, Freddy was NOT invited to the party.

Actually, Friday the 13th has been reassessed by critics and has actually been getting its due critically. It used to be very low on rotten tomatoes but it has climbed to be FRESH. That’s quite an accomplishment for it. It really is a great movie. It has great characters. It’s really not that gory, it’s spooky, and it has a great final chase and with the Final girl 100% dispatching of the villain. And like others have said Mrs. Voorhees is one of the best slashers ever. The score is superb. There are times I prefer this to Halloween. Nobody came to save Alice like they did Laurie in Halloween. Alice was smarter than Laurie and actually hit Mrs. Voorhees in the cuntbone with a rifle. That’s epic!

It’s a shame Adrienne King wasn’t able to come back for the sequel as intended. I believe she was going to end up saving the final girl in part two but as someone mentioned above, she didn’t want a big role because of the stalker she had. It’s such a shame because I would love to know exactly what they were going to do with her character.

R34 R35 Sorry but it didn't make the list compiled by people who know something about film btw you have substantiated anything you've said or claimed?

R36 no one cares about that shit. That’s all opinion based. That doesn’t change shit.

You don’t even have a job or college. Why are you worried about this? You should be worried about becoming employed

OH well another list compiled by people who apparently didn't go to college because of course they don't mention the artless cheap boring Friday the 13th

[quote] You don’t even have a job or college

When will you be old enough to go to college?

And yet another list that omits Friday the 13th

R39 And what publication do you write for?

R3, it originally played in cinemas. And drive-ins.

I’ve never see it on a small screen. I always thought Part 2 was better.

All those teenage whores deserved to die!

Can the two posters bickering back and forth just get a room?

R42 I know, but I was born a decade after it came out, so I never had the opportunity

R41, I used to write for l'Actualité.

I don’t care what it’s ranked by different publications. Normally they only take certain genres and they pick the best out of those. Friday the 13th is still seen as a bit low brow compared to Halloween (same genre) so it’s not gonna make any of the best of lists. Having said that considering the fact that it’s gaining in critical acclaim, I think it’s safe to say it’s a very very good horror movie and it’s getting its due. There’s been thousands and thousands of horror movies made so the fact that it’s not the top 100 doesn’t take away anything from it.

[Quote] That’s what the average movie goer cares about. Having a good time.

I’m a huge horror fan. I’m especially into really good horror movies of course, but as long as the movie is fun, i also embrace it.

But I’ve never liked F13. It just isn’t very entertaining. It’s not high art and it’s not low camp. It just sucks.

I love the idea of the hulking Jason with the hockey mask and the machete. But the movies just don’t do anything interesting with that iconic figure.

But Halloween had future Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis!

F13 1 and 2 were very good. In some ways part 2 is way scarier. The quality drops precipitously after part 3. They absolutely suck after part 4. Zombie Jason? GFY.

But F13 original is a great slasher movie. If they just ranked slasher movies, this movie would be top five easy.

The first four films of the franchise have a pretty decent story arc about Jason and his mother that ends with Jason's supposed death. After that, the franchise continued only because it was lucrative to do so, even though it got silly with zombie Jason or outright disappointing/frustrating with imposter Jason in the fifth film.

I like the first two because as they were filmed in the Northeast, they have a very authentic feel. You can practically smell the Deep Woods Off and the dampness in the cabins. Starting with part 3, they were filmed in CA and you can feel the change immediately, both with the actors and settings.

I love part 3, mainly for its sheer cheezyness-the biker gang, bad 3D effects, and disco theme.

F13 is considered a classic that is held back by its final girl. The final girl has always been considered one of the weakest in slasher films. That’s usually the films biggest criticism

Tom McBride in Part 2 was the hottest.

[quote] Tom McBride in Part 2 was the hottest.

No, he wasn't.

R54 How was Alice a weak final girl? She actually killed the slasher and didn’t need any help doing it.

R54 Alice is weak in the sense that she spends most of the finale cowering and being (understandably) upset/terrified, but she gets her moment with the machete in the end, so I'd say she's still a pretty formidable final girl.

R58 That’s Laurie Strode. Alice hides, then bashes the fuck out of Mrs. Voorhees then runs. Laurie stabs Michael in the neck and then drops the weapon and sits there. Then she stabs him and drops the knife and then sits with her back to him at the door. I’m sorry, but there’s a lot you can say by Alice, but she was not weak.

No. Laurie was a good final girl and one of the OGs

And a man saved Laurie. No one had to save Alice.

Laurie was up against a large strong fit man who even men can’t take down. Alice was up against a middle aged woman.

Mrs. Voorhees took down grown men. Laurie did stupid things and it’s a miracle she survived. Alice never turned her back to her slasher. She fucking ran and hid after she beat her.

[quote] I love part 3, mainly for its sheer cheezyness-the biker gang, bad 3D effects, and disco theme.

And Jeffrey Rogers doing handstands

R63 Mrs. Voorhees didn’t go hand to hand with grown men idiot. She killed them when they weren’t expecting it. Smart. But there was no contact with her. Use your brain.

R42 Moviefone would agree with you

[Quote] Having said that considering the fact that it’s gaining in critical acclaim, I think it’s safe to say it’s a very very good horror movie and it’s getting its due.

Gaining critical claim where in your basement! Here's another list from Time Out from May of this year with of course no mention of Friday the 13th

^^^ It made this list

Though its twist ending and a number of inspired kills helped launch this franchise, the original Friday the 13th is fairly dull at points and doesn’t deliver much in terms of story, aspects that were later corrected by the more imaginative mythology and suspenseful sequels.

Someone on here (the person who didn’t go to college and lives off his family) is obsessed with lists suddenly.

Funny as he usually says they’re full of shit. Lmao

I think you're confused R69 I posted three of the lists that are on here and I never said that they're full of shit

[Quote] F13 is considered a classic that is held back by its final girl. The final girl has always been considered one of the weakest in slasher films. That’s usually the films biggest criticism

Clearly you didn't go to college you know nothing about syntax and your response makes no sense whatsoever. the criticisms of the film have nothing to do with 'the final girl' but with the fact that it's incompetently, made, pointless and tedious which is why it has a 20 Metascore.

Oh, I went to college r71. Unlike you. Living off family at your grown ass age.

Clearly r72 gets his jollies from picking on the 13 year old girl who plans to go to college.

A 13 YO doesn’t belong on here

I agree.

I agree R52, they lost something when they shot Part 3 onward in California. The atmosphere was different. That being said, I still love Part III and it is iconic for introducing the hockey mask. The Final Chapter is good too. Part 5 is good and pretty sleazy despite the controversial ending. Never been a big fan of Jason Lives, though it has a lot of champions. I think Part VII was filmed in Georgia, and that one also has a unique look due to the shooting location. Still, the atmosphere of the first two films is unmatched.

[Quote] But I’ve never liked F13. It just isn’t very entertaining. It’s not high art and it’s not low camp. It just sucks.

And it lacks interesting characters you care about.

Ginni, final girl in part 2, actually pissed herself, never went hand to hand with Jason, relied on psychology, then was hurt severely by Jason until she was saved by..a man. She’s the final girl F13 fans love and she seemed pretty weak IMO.

[Quote]I don’t care what it’s ranked by different publications. Normally they only take certain genres and they pick the best out of those. Friday the 13th is still seen as a bit low brow compared to Halloween (same genre) so it’s not gonna make any of the best of lists.

The lists include Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. Do you consider that highbrow? and btw they chose the hprror genre and F13didn't make it .

Kevin Bacon and Amy Steele, both iconic F13ers, were on Guiding Light at the same time. Kevin told Amy not to do part 2. She wisely didn’t listen.

[Quote] It’s a shame Adrienne King wasn’t able to come back for the sequel as intended. I believe she was going to end up saving the final girl in part two but as someone mentioned above, she didn’t want a big role because of the stalker she had. It’s such a shame because I would love to know exactly what they were going to do with her character.

is your name Annie Wilkes?

The series, started by Sean S. Cunningham, began as competent and sober, only to become more and more intoxicated with camp and lascivious pleasures and, finally, collapsing into a pile of cheap, cheesy narrative gimmicks or grim gore. I decided to look at what has been most successful in the Friday the 13th films and what has rightly made them the subject of numerous parodies and cinephilic derision.

None of them were good after 4.

Betsy Palmer has star billing in "Friday the 13th," but she doesn't appear until the end of the movie. Miss Palmer plays the murderer, and by the time she has materialized on screen she has already killed a half dozen nubile young camp counselors, for reasons it would be futile to try to explain. All these nice kids have been perforated in various ways on the day of the title, and yet Miss Palmer appears in a pale sweater that is very, very clean. -Janet Maslin NYTimes

[quote] Ginni, final girl in part 2, actually pissed herself, never went hand to hand with Jason, relied on psychology, then was hurt severely by Jason until she was saved by..a man. She’s the final girl F13 fans love and she seemed pretty weak IMO.

Did you actually watch the movie or are you rewriting the ending in your head? Jason chased Ginni around for quite a while. He almost had her a couple of times, but she put up a good fight. She fought back with weapons like a rake, an ax, and even a chainsaw. She was the only final girl of the whole franchise that figured out the psychology of Jason pretty quickly. Impersonating his mother and getting him to briefly let his guard down in the only moment he was ever truly vulnerable. It was brilliant. That's why Ginni is loved. It's also why Part 2 is superior to the original and the best sequel in the franchise.

[quote] ...then was hurt severely by Jason until she was saved by..a man. She’s the final girl F13 fans love and she seemed pretty weak IMO.

Alice was a wimpy bitch who couldn't even fight another woman. Mrs. Voorhies was kicking her ass for most of the battle until they got down to the lake. Even then, it took several attempts on her life before she finally realized she was going to have to kill this crazy delusional bitch. Only to be killed off in the sequel. She was definitely no Sidney Prescott.

That Buzzfeed list at R68 is ridiculously stupid. They give no concrete examples of anything, just says vague statements such as “isn’t that effective”, etc.

R85 Dude the movie sucked but Ginni was actually saved by someone. Jason had her. Alice was not being beaten- she knocked her out with a poker, a huge frying pan, a rifle to the pussy, then chopped her head off. She wasn’t saved.

Popular opinion is that Jason killed Paul in the rec cabin and the ending in the shack and when he crashes through the window was a fever dream. Does anyone else agree with that? In Part 3, according to the news report body count, Paul is alive.

What happened to Paul is one of the most perplexing things ever and the writers have never explained it. The question is- why?

R87 You sound like an idiot for harping on this "saved by a man" crap as if a young girl vs. a supernatural entity is equal to two women fighting. It's also stupid to measure a woman's strength that way. Alice never had to deal with Jason, and he quickly eliminated her within the first five minutes of Part 2. Then, we are introduced to Ginni and Paul as the new main characters. Paul was subdued or knocked out early on in the final fight , and Ginni had to deal with Jason herself mostly with her wits and whatever weapons were available. In the end, she survived. It's still unclear what happened to Paul, but the audience clearly saw Ginni alive and being wheeled into an ambulance. Ginni survived. Alice did not.

[Quote] That Buzzfeed list at [R68] is ridiculously stupid. They give no concrete examples of anything, just says vague statements such as “isn’t that effective”, etc.

'Though its twist ending and a number of inspired kills helped launch this franchise, the original Friday the 13th is fairly dull at points and doesn’t deliver much in terms of story, aspects that were later corrected by the more imaginative mythology and suspenseful sequels.'

Dull and no story

I had the pleasure of working with Betsy Palmer in the early 1990s. At Disney of all places. She was wonderful and crazy in the best sense of the word. So unpredictable! She spoke very fondly of the movie. Which makes sense. I was happy for her. And delighted to find her so unlike her musical persona.

I love Jason Lives! The characters were great and they actually had scared kiddie campers. Loved the scenes/kills with the camper and the actor who played Tommy Jarvis was hot.

She sounds cool r92. For some reason my grandmother hated her until she saw her on The New Candid Camera in the 1970s.

Joan is scarier than Jason. Betsy and Joan in the Crawford classic Queen Bee

I'm curious to hear from Eldergays: How big of a name was Betsy Palmer when "Friday the 13th" came out? I know she was largely known for her appearances on game shows and television, though it looks like she did appear in a few big film productions early in her career (John Huston's "The Long Gray Line", "Mister Roberts", and "Queen Bee" with DL fave Joan Crawford). Lots of stage work it seems. I'm just curious/trying to get a feel for how many people would've noticed her turn as a middle-aged serial killer at this point in her career.

I was unaware of her earlier film work and knew Betsy Palmer mostly from appearances on television game shows and was surprised that she was appearing in a slasher film

I really dig F13 Part 7: The New Blood, starring the greatest F13 final girl ever, Tina (the late Lar Park Lincoln), her gay BFF Nick (Kevin Spirtas), and character actor Terry Kiser, playing her sinister psychoanalyst.

Thinking about what they could do with modern special effects, it would be an epic showdown.

I really like how in the first one, dark is DARK. It may have been because of a low budget but it looks so remote and foreboding. One of my favorite moments has Alice running into the dark and being swallowed up. Compare that to the 2009 remake where, like every horror film now, the woods are illuminated in blue.

Yeah, I hate that too. The lighting people think the moon is ten feet above the ground.

Part VII is one of the better installments in the franchise. The design of Jason is the best, and Tina is a good final girl. The telekinesis plot is used mostly well.

The little voice calling “Help me!” to lure Brenda to the archery range is very effective.

R90 You sound like a little girl who had her favorite doll taken away. Alice also never had hand to hand contact with Jason. The cat distracted her, but she was ready with the ice pick. Ginni was saved by a man otherwise Jason would’ve for sure killed her. She was wounded and he was about to finish her when Paul saved her. You know it and it just absolutely destroys you OVER A MOVIE CHARACTER! I’m stating facts. Also, Jason wasn’t supernatural until Part 6.

R103=Adrienne King slumming it at horror cons to pay the rent.

[quote] Ginni was saved by a man otherwise Jason would’ve for sure killed her. She was wounded and he was about to finish her when Paul saved her.

Awww, you poor, deluded, woman hater. Still mad that no man was around to save Alice? That Jason is such a misogynist! He would never treat the men that way! Sob!

[quote] Also, Jason wasn’t supernatural until Part 6.

Wow, you sure are smart! I guess that explains why he went from a dead child to fully grown in just two years based on the timeline from Part 1 to Part 2. You're such a stickler for details...that are made up in your own head.

R104 You’re dumber than dirt and TRIGGERED. I love it.

Watch the original again. Jason was not a boy when his mother was slashing up counselors. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

No comments yet on Alice's apartment decor in Part 2? So many houseplants-like Janet Wood's dream house!

R96 I was only 13 when it came out and I saw it, but had no idea who Betsy was. It wasn’t until later I realized she had a little success in movies, tv, and theater, but not much. In 1980, older people probably remembered her, but not the target audience FT13th aimed for. They wanted Estelle Parsons, but from what I remember she turned it down. I think Estelle would’ve been amazing too in it, plus having an Oscar winner a lot of people knew at the time more than Betsy. Ironic that the movie she called a piece of shit, and did just to replace her car is what she’s best remembered for,

I beg your pardon, R107..

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT MY TROWMA!!!

In part 2 Alice looks as if she's pregnant. That was in the original script but I guess they thought killing a pregnant woman was going too far. Also in part 3 Jason was supposed to have raped Chris in her flashback. The actress thought that was a bad idea.

I like how Alice is out in the boat so long that the seasons changed.

I watched the Billy Bob F13th marathon last Halloween. He had Adrienne as guest, who said in Part 2 the prop icepick didn't retract like it should have.

Pluto has been running a marathon. I watched 1-6 yesterday.

R105 Not you going completely off the rails and getting desperate enough to use emojis because you have no argument left. When all else fails(and you are one big failure), use visuals like a first-grader when you don't know how to articulate yourself. What a sad little bitch. You lost, but you've provided much amusement on this slow work day. Flawless victory!

R114 I love it. You’re off the rails! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

R112 YouTube has all the uncut kills on F13. Some are very grusome. It’s true the icepick didn’t retract and they left it in. You see it digging into AK’s temple. The uncut version is disturbing. The icepick comes out Alice’s the side of her nose and she stares into the camera with her tongue hanging out.

R115 Your tears are delicious.

I could watch BetsyPalmer’s 13 minute performance on a loop. She was so committed to it and so menacing. I love her demented grin when she smashes through the pantry door. Also her robotic stare when she slides open the shop door. “Come, Dear…it’ll be e-a-sier for you than it was for Jason…”

She must have been a hot shit to conjure up all these gestures and expressions. And some damn fine stage combat, too.

It myself be said- Betsy was serving hardcore bylldyke energy in that roll-

The hair- The sweater- the WALK- the everything.

She was a nasty bulldyke!

R117 She made Adrienne King cry on the set.

'In the same interview, Palmer recalled the scene in which her character slaps Alice (Adrienne King).

“I said to Adrienne that night ‘Why don’t we rehearse this scene, I have to slap you,’ because on-stage when you slap somebody, you slap them,” the actress told the horror movie website Icons of Fright. “Well, we started to practice and I hit her. She collapsed to the floor, crying, ‘Sean! [Director Sean Cunningham] She hit me.’ I said, well, of course I hit her, we were rehearsing the scene. He said, ‘No, no, no Betsy, we don’t hit people in movies. We miss them.’”

^A link to the article.

R117 I love the pantry scene too. The way she does the crazed, menacing little laugh and smile, and stops fucking around and takes the machete to cut Alice’s head off, as if to say I’ve toyed with you enough bitch, now it’s time to die. Then Alice turns the tables and hit her good with the pan. King has said Palmer told her obviously I’m doing this for money, and it’s a piece of shit, but it doesn’t mean I’m not going to give it my all. She sure did lol.

roll?

role.

R121 After Alice whacks her with the pan (a big black thick southern frying pan!) the blood coming out of Mrs. Voorhees’ head looks so real. I always liked that. But nothing beats Mrs. Voorhees getting a rifle to the cunt.

Fun fact- Part 1 was shown on prison movie night and it got Ted Bundy so agitated he was put in isolation.

[quote] In part 2 Alice looks as if she's pregnant. That was in the original script but I guess they thought killing a pregnant woman was going too far.

They didn't think that for long. Jason kills a pregnant chick in Part 3.

At the inaugural Razzie Awards in 1981, Friday the 13th was nominated for Worst Picture, and Betsy Palmer was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress. Luckily for the film, it “lost” Worst Picture to Village People musical Can’t Stop the Music, and Palmer’s category went to Honeysuckle Rose star Amy Irving.

R126 Oooooooo burn

Alice’s death scene in the opening of Part 2 is brutal. Despite the fact that you don’t see blood, that shot of the butcher knife going into the side of her head is fucking savage.

His mother’s head in the refrigerator is pretty gnarly. I remember someone talking about it when I was a kid, long before I saw it, and it freaked me out.

For me I am all about Parts 2 and 3, and I do enjoy Part 4.

Part 2 is so fucking scary-

Paul! He's in the fucking ROOM!!!!

Amy Steel is a legend.

[quote] Despite the fact that you don’t see blood, that shot of the butcher knife going into the side of her head is fucking savage.

It was an ice pick

[quote]I love Jason Lives! The characters were great and they actually had scared kiddie campers. Loved the scenes/kills with the camper and the actor who played Tommy Jarvis was hot.

Thom Mathews was cuuute. I wish it had been him riding Tom Fridley's dick in the RV.

For the people who saw Part II in theaters back in '81, was it a shocker that Adrienne King was killed before the opening credits? Or had word leaked that she was just making a cameo? In all the press/publicity materials, they gave her top billing.

Can't help you there. I wasn't even born yet.

R133 Shocking. It’s one of the longest openings for any movie at almost 15 minutes. That was shocking,too. It was a really good build up so it was worth it. The head in the fridge induced a roar of screams followed by another roar of scream when Jason came up behind her with put the ice pick through her temple.

If you search ‘“F13 uncut kills part 2” the one of Alice is particularly disturbing. The icepick comes out her nose as she stares into the camera with her tongue hanging out.

Originally, Alice was going to be attacked in the beginning but live. This was going to be unambiguous. Then she was going to save the day, instead of Paul, at the end. The story was she went to Camp Chrystal after hearing they reopened it. That’s when she was to save Ginni. It was also Alice who was supposed to disappear after the fever dream.

*ambiguous

I'm fascinated by the mullet on Tina's mom.

^ Tina's mom was a lez-be-dyke. Are you slow?

Who the fuck is Adrienne King?

R139 is Dana Kimmell or Corey Feldman!

Harry Crosby was hot in his Speedo, yes. I thought he was the hottest.

The Crystal Lake Memories documentary is pretty entertaining for anyone interested in the background of each of the films. It’s extremely long and exhaustive, but worth watching once if you are a fan of the franchise. I haven’t read the book but it seems to be well-regarded too.

R139 = Marta Kober, awake for 8 straight days

R143 I forgot about that. Marta has been a hot mess for decades now. I remember reading on some fan boards years back that she'd been arrested multiple times all over Oregon for various offenses. Clearly had/has a meth addiction. She's apparently done a few rare conventions and people said she was nice, but I have no idea if she's still sober. Either way, she's unfortunately toast at this point.

Holy FUCK!!!!! I do not see Marta ever returning to the autograph circuit.

And mind you, this is from 2021!!!

Jesus Christ.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but much as I love "Halloween", I prefer the original "Friday the 13th" as a slasher movie. The tone and atmosphere are what really make it for me. As R99 says, the nighttime scenes actually look legitimately dark, and I think the rustic locations add a sense of desolation to it all that is much scarier than the suburban setting of "Halloween". When the characters get knocked off and Alice is the only one left with no car or access to the phones, there is a real sense of danger and helplessness which you don't get in "Halloween". Also, the cutaway glimpses of the killer leading up to the final reveal (the boots, the shot her walking into the cabin before Ned, the hand pulling back the shower curtain when Brenda enters the bathroom) are legitimately scary.

R146- I am all about Halloween 2-- and I have to say, I agree with you about Halloween. Friday the 13th is far more effective- (and F13 is. not my favorite of the franchise, its my 4th- Friday Part 2 is my favorite)

I have a thing about sequels.

Um, excuse ME, but how many stars of "Friday the 13th" went on to receive critical acclaim from the Academy? That's right—NONE. "Halloween" was a career-making film for a master thespian who went on to plumb the depths of trowma experienced by the multilayered Laurie Strode in subsequent sequels. More importantly, she expanded her career horizons, as most recently seen in her Oscar-winning turn in "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and Gia Coppola's independent masterwork "The Last Showgirl" (co-starring Pamela Anderson).

Amy Steel dropped out of sight after part 2. I wonder why.

R149 so did most of the actors and actresses in all of them, except Bacon and Feldman. The horror genre probably has the highest rate among actors who don’t go on to a minimal or even moderately successful career, much less Oscar or Emmy nominee or winner.

Crispin Glover was in Part 4.

Amy Steel may have dropped out of Part 2, but she did "April Fool's Day" (another Paramount slasher) a few years later, so I don't know that she thought she was above the horror genre necessarily. Like Adrienne King, her biggest film of note was her role in "Friday the 13th". Steel did some TV work over the following decade, but she pretty much walked away from it and became a psychotherapist.

Both Adrienne and Amy wound up settling in southern Oregon coincidentally. I don't know if Amy still lives there, but Adrienne has lived in Jacksonville, OR for years now. Meanwhile, Marta Kober has also drifted around those parts living as a full-time tweaker. It must just be pure kismet that they all wound up there.

Adrienne left the business because of her stalker.

R153 I have always felt bad for her because of this. She seems like a sweet person and what happened to her was terrifying. That said, she didn't totally stop working--she did voice looping work for a bunch of big studio movies for years. I think it was a way for her to earn some money but not be visible. Fortunately, she seems completely comfortable these days being public and interacting with fans.

R151 forgot about Glover. He had a little success in films, but lost his fucking mind too.

The Hills have eyes is a good, fast paced. And gruesome m9vie. And it starred queen Kathleen Quinlan. It's always part of my October horror viewing.

R150 Yeah, very few actors who got their big break in horror movies are still working in front of the camera. Along with Curtis, Bacon, Paul Rudd was in a Halloween movie

Renee Zelweger and Jen Aniston. Don't forget about them.

R158 and Matthew McConaughey (alongside Renee in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation).

Betsy Palmer was a real character. I remember in the Crystal Lake Memories documentary, she talked about the fact that she cussed like a trucker, which was at odds with public "girl next-door" persona she had in her younger years. She seemed like a fun, smart lady. She aged quite nicely too. She looked very elegant and beautiful even in her last years.

The original F13 is one of my ultimate comfort movies, as silly as it sounds. I love the ambiance of it, and all of the characters/performances have a naturalism about them that work in the movie’s favor. It’s perfect for late-night summer viewing.