Friday the 13th (1980)

For a movie that spawned eleven sequels (and counting) plus numerous spin-offs like Freddie vs Jason, this 1980 slasher is fairly derivative with Camp Lake Crystal (the setting where a bunch of young adults kumbayah around a fire, have sex, and generally have great times before being mercilessly picked off one-by-very-grisly-one) now a slasher movie cliché and the climax, which eveeeeeentually comes, heavily influenced by twenty years of film since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

★★★☆☆

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