jona100
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A genre defining movie to be sure, but still inferior to some of its sequels, to be fair like all slasher movies, it does not try and be "Citizen Cane", it is made for an audience who want to see gory murders and nubile campers.
The movie has dated terribly, and tom savini's makeup FX look a bit cheesy (Kevin Bacons neck in the infamous "arrow through the throat scene", looks like a giraffe!). But it has inspired a mirid of good and bad rip off's (even though this movie was a rip off of "Halloween").
The movie that gave the world the trick trivial persuit question "who was the killer in Friday the 13th" and everyone gets it wrong by saying "Jason" but he didn't turn up until part 2.
The movie has dated terribly, and tom savini's makeup FX look a bit cheesy (Kevin Bacons neck in the infamous "arrow through the throat scene", looks like a giraffe!). But it has inspired a mirid of good and bad rip off's (even though this movie was a rip off of "Halloween").
The movie that gave the world the trick trivial persuit question "who was the killer in Friday the 13th" and everyone gets it wrong by saying "Jason" but he didn't turn up until part 2.
As a major Halloween film fan, it was very unlikely I was going to hate this movie, considering how I can enjoy a couple of the really bad early sequels although I am fully aware they a just "movies". But this movie is so bad even I cannot like it.
Never has a movie productions company's financial motivation for the movie production been so glaringly obvious! Horrendous acting, an utter lack of respect for the most important character of the series by killing her off so quickly. The whole explanation of Michael Myers survival after H20 will have have you crying with laughter at its glaring unstated translation and who is actually saying it "the last movie mad far more money than we expected, and we want to make more money as easy and quick as possible"
The camera work and lighting are terrible, the Michael mask abysmal, and a subtle as sledgehammer in the testicles attempt to be perceived as a "modern" movie by thrusting hand held PDA's time-after-time DA into the camera.
The movie is like a parody of earlier 80's slasher movies (I kid you not, but a character finds a working chainsaw in the cupboard of an abandoned house!!!!!!!) if the film makers had an ounce of care about this movie they would never include such a horror parody in the movie, and would at all costs avoid including a chainsaw in the movie at all HALLOWEEN MOVIES DO NOT HAVE CHAINSAWS IN.
I must have groaned at least 30 times watching this film.
If you have not seen this film, no matter how much a Halloween or slasher movie fan you are I absolutely 100% guarantee you are going to hate this film. It is that bad. Avoid like you would do Leprosy.
Never has a movie productions company's financial motivation for the movie production been so glaringly obvious! Horrendous acting, an utter lack of respect for the most important character of the series by killing her off so quickly. The whole explanation of Michael Myers survival after H20 will have have you crying with laughter at its glaring unstated translation and who is actually saying it "the last movie mad far more money than we expected, and we want to make more money as easy and quick as possible"
The camera work and lighting are terrible, the Michael mask abysmal, and a subtle as sledgehammer in the testicles attempt to be perceived as a "modern" movie by thrusting hand held PDA's time-after-time DA into the camera.
The movie is like a parody of earlier 80's slasher movies (I kid you not, but a character finds a working chainsaw in the cupboard of an abandoned house!!!!!!!) if the film makers had an ounce of care about this movie they would never include such a horror parody in the movie, and would at all costs avoid including a chainsaw in the movie at all HALLOWEEN MOVIES DO NOT HAVE CHAINSAWS IN.
I must have groaned at least 30 times watching this film.
If you have not seen this film, no matter how much a Halloween or slasher movie fan you are I absolutely 100% guarantee you are going to hate this film. It is that bad. Avoid like you would do Leprosy.
I am a major jason fan, but this movie is absolutely awful!, terrible acting (the movie was non-union, another reason to go union when hiring actors!) the characters do absolutely nothing in the entire movie but wait hang around waiting to die....
This movie was part of the 82-83 3D craze (Jaws 3D) and the movie makers do not let up sticking poles, eye balls towards the screen; this would be ok if the FX were good, but they are worse than the acting (that snake scene with the clearly visable wire had me and my friend in tears of laughter!!!!!)
Usually the Jason movies are pretty dire as "movies", but Jason fans enjoy them for the movie in questions "Jason"; Part 3 has the most nonchalant Jason to date, the scene when he kills the dope smoking hippy was camper than caberet. Even worse was the scene were Jason harpoons the girl in the lake, after he kills her he limply "lets go" of the harpoon gun, then looks at the house where the rest of the characters are, and does not even look like he can be bothered to go in and kill them. This Jason has absolutely nothing in common with the terrific pissed off "meat terminator" Kane Hodder Jason of part 7.
Avoid.
This movie was part of the 82-83 3D craze (Jaws 3D) and the movie makers do not let up sticking poles, eye balls towards the screen; this would be ok if the FX were good, but they are worse than the acting (that snake scene with the clearly visable wire had me and my friend in tears of laughter!!!!!)
Usually the Jason movies are pretty dire as "movies", but Jason fans enjoy them for the movie in questions "Jason"; Part 3 has the most nonchalant Jason to date, the scene when he kills the dope smoking hippy was camper than caberet. Even worse was the scene were Jason harpoons the girl in the lake, after he kills her he limply "lets go" of the harpoon gun, then looks at the house where the rest of the characters are, and does not even look like he can be bothered to go in and kill them. This Jason has absolutely nothing in common with the terrific pissed off "meat terminator" Kane Hodder Jason of part 7.
Avoid.