
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play No matter how many sequels they&ve made or how big a hit it was in 1980 it&s difficult to view the first Friday the 13th as anything but a quickie designed to cram in as many elements from horror movies that had been hits in the late 1970s--most obviously Halloween & Carrie--while adding as little as possible to the formula Director Sean S Cunningham has an archetypal plot at his disposal as a group of attractive shallow teenagers out in the woods to reopen a once-cursed summer camp are murdered in manners designed to show off Tom Savini&s gore effects Kevin Bacon killed early (arrow through the throat) is the only player who went on to have a career & he hardly stands out from the strip-Monopoly-playing goon-acting meat-on-the-hoof teens who fall prey to the mostly unseen murderer That it&s not a total write-off is down to a few neatly edited bits of classical suspense & two decades on a simmering nostalgia for a world of bouffant-haired bubbleheads in short shorts (and that&s just the guys) observed by edgy subjective camera as the music hisses "kill kill kill"