What was your favorite Friday the 13th movie?
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the first two have that low-budget rough edge that got polished off in the sequels; not that the sequels were good film making, but there is a difference between rough edge and ineptitude.
Instead of having to come up with more new ways to kill people with Jason's super strength (like folding the cop in half, punching the guy's head off in NYC), the first two had a sadistic quality, where the murders weren't just striving just to be different. They had a mean-spiritedness to them.
I remember being reaching up to my own throat when the hitchhiker gets her throat cut in part 1-- like you could imagine how frightening and painful that would be. Whereas being folded in half is too cartoonish to have the same visceral punch.
Kevin Bacon getting an arrow up through the bed notwithstanding (that's pretty cartoonish, but at the time, most of us had never seen splatter effects like that)--
the meanest, couldn't believe they went there moment, though is when the hot guy in the wheelchair gets the machete in his face and rolls down the stairs in Part 2. Plus, F13 trademark fade to white. Same kind of sickening, no-budget, what disturbed person came up with this as you see in the 70's classics like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Having said that, though, my camp-loving inner queen loves the one where the telekinetic girl does battle with Jason (part 6 was it?). Jason vs. Carrie? Genius!
I liked Parts 2 and 6 the best. Not sure why - but I remember these the most!
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