Impeccable sharpness preserves this source at high resolution, leaving no question as to whether this is a true 4K scan. The untouched environments, trees, and buildings look ridiculously clean. Scream Factory debuts a new 4K scan for this release, so it’s a shame this isn’t actually on UHD. Few were thematically interesting, drawing on escalating real world violent crime rates to find value, but Friday the 13th uses its artlessness to expose inane conservative logic, as if scaring kids with knives could ever dampen hormones. Sex sells, so that’s what producers sold.
Most of these genre efforts throughout the ‘80s, fueled by an audience left unbothered by the repetition, staged wars between teens and killers. It’s a mother who feels validated in her insanity.
An undead, possessed, testosterone driven male sticks to genre cliches Friday the 13th succeeds because the brutality comes at the hand of a middle aged woman fit to be a school teacher. Mother Vorhees, in her unassuming sweater and psychosis, is fear-inducing because she’s an atypical killer. While better for the splatter, there’s far less innocence to Jason whose madness is disconnected from his death. Vorheees was replaced by a hulking Jason. Friday the 13th shredded that veil.įollow-up sequels retreated the same territory, only then, the now dead Mrs. A few years earlier, Meatballs played up the absurdity. Never mind it’s often kids supervising kids. But where Michael Meyers invaded a generic suburbia, Vorhees marched on a seemingly safe, pure place. Vorhees didn’t enter the pop culture pantheon only through that audience though. Rated R, Friday the 13th aimed at older teens who already spent time as grade schoolers in camp. The setting is genuine, clever, and smart. That’s a death sentence, served up because they marred an American institution, the summer camp. Friday the 13th uses its artlessness to expose inane conservative logicįorty years on, it’s known the killer isn’t Jason Vorhees, but his maniacal mother (Betsy Palmer) who stabs and hacks at the new counselors because they dared to have sex or play strip Monopoly.
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