The killings, obviously the reason everyone sees these sorts of films, are gruesome but are often so poorly timed they wind up playing as awkward and ineffective.
Cunningham, as he would display in future projects, obviously isn’t a filmmaker, and he’s unable to wring much tension out of the wonderful atmosphere. But the film, compared to slashers such as the elegant Halloween or the terrifying Black Christmas, is slack and slip-shod. The almost nonexistent budget admittedly serves Friday the 13th well: Shot on an actual abandoned campground somewhere in New Jersey, the setting is eerie and almost entirely responsible for the few shocks the film manages to land. In the case of this film, we learn-and in a conscious reversal of the mother-son dynamic that informed Psycho-that the baddie is a middle-aged woman stalking the camp that had once allowed her little son Jason to drown. Cunningham, the first film follows a slasher pattern that now rivals the set formality of kabuki: A bunch of horny kids go out to a remote place to do something or another-in this case to renovate a supposedly cursed camp ground called Camp Crystal Lake-and are quickly and gruesomely dispatched by a killer who will remain unseen until the final reel.
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Ineptly and indifferently directed by series creator Sean S. The original Friday the 13th is, in fact, rather shockingly lame considering the brouhaha it inspired. But Friday the 13th, the series that features Jason, that ghoulish unstoppable colossus, as he dispatches with teens for increasingly remote reasons, was creatively bankrupt from the very first installment, which was released in theaters in 1980 in a transparent attempt to cash in on the stunning success of Halloween a few years earlier. While the Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre films quickly became jokes, they undeniably sprung from notable first films that are considered by many to be part of the horror canon. Of all the American horror icons of the 1980s, he was the only one who failed to appear in a good or even particularly interesting movie.
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