If all that hype had never happened

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2000)

If all that hype had never happened and we had the privilege of watching this movie completely free of thought or conciusness. I envy my sister, she saw this movie not knowing anything of the hype. After she watched it she thought it was all real and was traumatised. I had not the pleasure but the brilliance of this film was still apparent. Sure this is a one-off movie which can never be bettered if imitated but this is without doubt the film of a generation. All those blood-scary movies we watched as kids where the thought of seeing Jason killing the women with a shovel are gone, the scare is in your mind not in your sight. It will never be bettered and doesn't deserve to be. Its like Hitchcock always said. Its not the bang that scares the audience, its the anticipation of it.
This film is the breathing metaphor of that statement.