Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace
Pietari Kaapa, Tommy Gustafsson and Outi Hakola
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Offers a transnational comparative approach to contemporary popular Nordic genre film. Nordic Genre...
The Alexander Medvedkin Reader
Alexander Medvedkin, Nikita Lary and Jay Leyda
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Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900 89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander...
The Curse of Frankenstein
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Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office...
The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and...
The Great War and the Moving Image
Adrian Smith and Michael Hammond
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The Great War and the Moving Image focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in...
The Iraq War in Documentary Film
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This book is the first comprehensive study of documentary film on the Iraq War. In a series of close...
Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews
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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite...
Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950-1982
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Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction...
Suspended Passion: Interviews
Chris Turner and Marguerite Duras
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A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Friday the 13th (1980) in Movies
Jul 14, 2020
Following hot on the heels of Halloween, Friday the 13th is the slasher genre stripped down to it's bare bones - a group of horny teenagers isolated from the rest of the world, a relentless killer hunting them down one by one, until we're left with a lone final girl.
Tropes that have since become iconic, much like the setting of Camp Crystal Lake.
The summer camp setting has been aped and parodied for years following the films release back in 1980.
The practical effects used by the now legendary Tom Savini are still great. They may be showing their age, but I would take it over sub standard CGI any day. Throw in a frantic and memorable musical score courtesy of Harry Manfredini, a gleefully sinister performance from Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees, and one of the greatest "Gotcha!" endings in horror cinema, and you have a title that's deserving of the love it gets.