Should you watch Friday the 13th?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Friday the 13th
Film · 1980
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
The sides of Friday the 13th
- Camp counselors at a lake in the woods
- A killer you don't see
- A summer camp with a drowning in its past
Friday the 13th is good for you if…
- you like a slasher in the dark woods around Camp Crystal Lake.
- you like waiting for the next counselor to wander off alone.
- you like a slasher that saves one big surprise for its last act.
Friday the 13th is bad for you if…
- you can't stand gory murders one after another.
- you find 1980 horror effects dated.
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