SCARETOBER 2020: Friday the 13th (1980)
“Kill her mommy…get her…”
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CONTENT WARNING: Murder, misogyny, “purity” tropes, blood, violent death, mental illness, dissociation, knives and blades, snakes.
The fact that we hadn’t seen the mother of all slasher movies weighed pretty heavy on us, so we finally decided it was time to fix that. And wow were we pleasantly surprised. As was most of the country - in a year where John Carpenter’s The Fog and Kubrick’s reimagining of The Shining were dominating theaters, this tiny film became one of the most profitable blockbusters of all time. That’s not to say it’s great cinema; the dialogue is just awful, the editing is bare bones, and it’s definitely limited by a tiny budget. But its story leaves a mark, especially in the final turn, so much so that critics were willing to take drastic measures to get people not to see this movie. Join us for the ultimate cash grab as we watch 1980’s Friday the 13th on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Overlay of Evil / Main Title” from the film Friday the 13th, composed by Harry Manfredini. Copyright 1980.
Clips taken from the film Friday the 13th are © 1980 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
