Paramount You can probably blame Friday the 13th for all the putrid, Grade-Z slasher film garbage that amassed in the 1980 s. It was so popular among horror movie fans that endless imitations begin spawning quickly thereafter, drowning the Hollywood market in gore.
People couldn t get enough, apparently, so the slasher trend continued on throughout the years.
I suppose the John Carpenter classic Halloween initially started the horror craze that lasted a healthy decade, but Friday the 13th brought the realization that a horror movie could be lame and cheesy but still modestly received by the public. Actually, despite the bad rap it often takes, the original Friday the 13th isn t bad at all. In fact, in comparison to the awful clones that followed, it may be a flat-out masterpiece. Of course, no one realizes they are being ruthlessly hunted down until the finale, when the sole survivor stumbles upon their rotting corpses and erupts in screaming. Yes siree, Randy knows his sh-t.