FILM

    Friday the 13th

    Friday the 13th

    Presented by The Colonial Theatre

    October 21, 2011


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    “In the first Friday the 13th film, a group of teenagers gather at Crystal Lake where they’re picked off one by one by a mysterious killer. Some 20 years ago, a young boy, Jason Voorhees, was allowed to drown in the lake by malicious kids, and now he’s presumably returned from the dead to get even. Director Sean S. Cunningham and writer Victor Miller steal whole sequences from great ’70s films like Halloween and Black Christmas, but they’re hardly concerned with addressing the social and sexual anxieties summoned by Brian De Palma and Mario Bava in films like Carrie and Bay of Blood, respectively. Some enjoy Friday the 13th as a shlocky spectacle of gore, but even the one truly fabulous death in the film—Jason, err, Jason’s mother sticks a spear through a pot-stoked Kevin Bacon’s throat—is slim pickings.” (Ed Gonzalez, SlantMagazine.com)

    Directed by Sean S. Cunningham. US. 1980. R. 95 min. Private Collector. 35mm.


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        Tickets:

        $8 / $6 / $5

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 21, 2011

        Times:

        10:00PM

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