Friday the 13th

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Watched With: Kate, Andrew, Matt

It's Friday the 13th AND a full moon?!?! What better way to celebrate than by watching the digitally remastered classic at the cinemas. Such fun.

It's been so long since I've watched this that it felt like watching it for the first time. There were only one or two kills I remember. And the ending of course. (Thankfully I didn't watch the trailer which pretty much spoils them all...) So all those ridiculous jump scares worked a treat, especially with the sound really cranked up at the cinema.

And being surrounded by people that had never seen the film before was great fun too. It's pretty cheesy and probably elicits more laughs than screams now. But even though it was a pretty cheap Halloween slasher rip-off it managed to spawn a whole series and had plenty of imitators of its own.

What surprised me watching the film again was just how little there is going on besides getting teens killed in the woods one by one. Pretty much nothing else happens, just scene to scene of teen murders. That in itself was pretty funny to me. And Mrs Voorhees is always a delight.

A really fun night. I'm tempted to track down that new bluray box set now. The rest of the films vary greatly in quality, they get pretty outrageous but pretty fun nonetheless.