Review – Friday the 13th

Though this was a seminal work in the early days of the slasher movie, for the most part it’s fairly tame – perhaps even a bit boring – by today’s standards. Tom Savini’s high-impact gore effects still endure fairly well, but other than that the characters aren’t interesting enough nor the plot sufficiently compelling to keep today’s jaded viewers interested. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon enthusiasts will note this as one of the actor’s earlier screen appearances, though it links the actor mostly to teen axe-murder victims who never went on to appear in anything else. Even the now-legendary Jason Voorhees is almost completely absent from the first installment in the series that made him a star. As it is, this one offers little besides clichés and a brutal snake killing. See if desperate