Sporting a burlap sack over his head with one eye-hole and wielding a pitchfork, this early portrayal of the character as a relentless, backwoods psychopath on a revenge craze slaughtering horny, inappropriate young people ranks as my second favorite version of Jason.
(Movie Rating: 4/5)Īrguably, the sequel is where the real fun begins, as this wildly-entertaining direct follow-up smartly expands on the previous established storyline while also launching into new territory: the proper introduction of Jason Voorhees. With memorable music by Harry Manfredini and gory effects by legendary makeup maestro Tom Savini, the slasher classic remains a blast. But thanks to Cunningham's strong direction, solving the true identity of the killer is a great deal of the fun, one which slowly builds towards a well-earned shocking reveal. The Jason character is mentioned in the first movie more as a device, as both the killer's motivation as well as for generating a terrific air of mystery. While young campers crowd the lake with their misbehaving, reckless hormones, the story's "Final Girl" is distinct and plainly defined with a vulnerability she must overcome so that it genuinely surprises when she becomes a capable, resourceful fighter towards the end. What continues to amaze me though is that the horror at Camp Crystal Lake forty years later still manages some small semblance of originality. The third part of Jason's journey is an oddball medley of uber-nanotechnology, a confrontation between genre icons that reimagines Jason's origins and a Bayhemed reboot that is essentially a potpourri of the first four movies. However, the Jason legacy doesn't truly begin until the sequel, showing him as a furious, deranged killer, but it wasn't until parts six through nine that he evolved into the unstoppable, supernatural killing machine horror fans dearly love and remember. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980) essentially cemented the new-at-the-time subgenre into a viable blueprint that has been imitated countless times throughout the series.
Although its all-too-familiar formula has largely lost its effectiveness with modern audiences, Sean S. When revisiting the horror franchise that introduced the world to one of the most popular icons of the genre, Jason Voorhees, we find a bizarrely but comically amusing continuity that defies logic while also turning the character into a monstrous anti-hero.
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