12 Movies You Can Stop Watching After The Opening Scene

This Platinum Dunes reboot of the Jason Voorhees starring franchise pulls off a neat trick with its pair of nested openings. Not only does the first brief monochrome sequence effectively recap the first film in the series in thirty or so seconds (Ms. Voorhees offs some counsellors for offing her son before being offed by one of them), the second, more luxuriously paced opening introduces us to a small group of slasher movie victims—the stoned slacker, the sex-mad young couple, and their marginally more sensible seeming counterparts—only to kill them off so fast there’s no need to watch the rest of the film.

Yes, from an inexplicable cameo from Night Ranger’s eighties hit Sister Christian to a string of quick, gory, and inventive kills, the opening twenty minutes of this remake act as perfect self-contained Jason Voorhees outing all on its own.

Now you can save yourself an hour of watching Supernatural star/ worst Gilmore Girl love interest Jared Paladecki and Disney Channel exile Danielle Pannabaker attempt chemistry to a backdrop of lesser murders—you’re welcome.