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TravisR, because it's been decades since my only experiences with the Friday the 13th series, which consisted of seeing the first 2 of the series on The Movie Channel, I was saying WOW to myself when I saw your post. With my viewing being more than 30 years ago, (when I was at the beginning of...

Concerning the performers in the Friday the 13th movies TravisR said: "I'm sure I'm in a minority even amongst F13 fans and I probably should be very embarrassed to admit that I can definitely name the actors in the F13 movies (picking one from each of the first 8 movies: Walt Gorney, Stu...

Michael, your point about Martin Scorsese's method of teaching film appreciation, is certainly a fascinating one. Also, your mention of Jess Franco got me to google the late Spanish filmmaker because one of the DVDs that used to be in our 1500+ movie collection was a Franco creation. And...

TravisR, I'm glad to see you indicate that if you hadn't gotten into the slasher formula when you were less sophisticated at judging quality, as a kid, then you would probably "wouldn't like them at all today". But though, as an intelligent adult, you now admit that you probably would not...

Michael, you make a great point about The Last House On The Left. I don't know why Ebert's farcical 3 and a half star rating for House didn't spring to mind when I typed my post. I know for a fact that Ebert overrated that crap film with that outrageous rating because his stars are printed right...

Let me concede to you your point that the moralizing about sexulity does not hold for these films, (or not all of them, anyway) but didn't you find it even a little disturbing when you typed "They simply found a formula that sold tickets (kill people in violent ways) and they kept pumping out...

Come on Kenneth, how could have wasted so much of your time and effort compiling all that information to launch a thread about total garbage? The first Friday the 13th simply copied the formula of an actually well made horror movie, 1978's original Halloween. But, from what I've heard, all...