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Movie Overview
Cast
Adrienne King
Betsy Palmer
Kevin Bacon
Director
Sean S. Cunningham
MPAA Rating
R
Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980)
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OFCS Rating: 56% Rotten
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3/5
"It's a classic, for sure, just an awfully cheesy one."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
2/4
"...uneven..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
2.5/4
"A skillful, if by-the-numbers, horror pic."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
1/5
"A dreadful piece of trash."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
"Within the dead-teenie realm it achieves a certain classicism"
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
3/4
"a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well-timed shocks, which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
2/4
"You really have to wonder what exactly made the
Friday the 13th
series so wildly successful."
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
6/10
"...perhaps more than any other film, it helped to popularize the slasher genre and codify the formula."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
3.5/5
"What makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn't been set in stone yet, and some choices that director Sean S. Cunningham makes in the film that work against type."
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
3/5
"It’s a lazy film, of that there can be little doubt, yet it does just enough things right to make it an entertaining watch -- especially when one views it in the proper historical context."
ToxicUniverse.com
Mike Bracken
"
Friday the 13th
emerges not as an outstanding slasher film, but as a succinctly formulaic one."
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
9/10
"The slasher king."
eFilmCritic.com
Scott Weinberg
3.5/4
"A classic Bacon"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
3/10
"Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
2/4
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ReelViews
James Berardinelli
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