Friday The 13th is the first great slasher film of the 1980s, and although it wasnt particularly well received by critics upon release, it made a terrific box office return and spawned a collection of seemingly endless sequels. It is a gratuitously gruesome flick that gives us kill after kill of gory goodness, and never pretends to be anything that its not. When people think about the Friday The 13th franchise, it's hockey-masked, machete-wielding Jason Voorhes who undoubtedly comes to mind. But what people often forget, or simply dont know, is that Jasons Mother, Pamela Voorhees is the killer in the original film. It is incredible to believe that a middle-aged woman is responsible for such brutality and coldness, but it makes the film that much darker (and that much better) because of it. It is one of the most memorable films for establishing revenge as the villains motive for killing, and as Mrs. Voorhes is a real person who the audience can see and empathise with, it comes as a massive shock when all is revealed at the end. Putting the numerous sequels aside (because they are terribly uneven), the original Friday The 13th is a great horror film that delivers all the things one could want from a slasher and still remains today one of the most gratuitously violent and, well, adult.
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