The Reel Rejects - FRIDAY THE 13th (1980) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:41 We just watched Friday the 13th for the first time ever. Yeah. One of the classic, classic OG horror movies. Yep. Tara hit me with your... Well, before I get two thoughts, actually. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, five stars. If you love what we're wearing, we do too, it's like so legit.

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Starting point is 00:02:25 just start word vomiting at me like I love the thing at the end the special effects on him jumping up he looked like a pure

Starting point is 00:02:35 lake boy I think it was missing an eye I don't even know there was seaweed I look like swamp scared the crap out of me and I love that

Starting point is 00:02:44 I also am like oh that's so weird so it did for me I was fighting against she is not killing this girl as easily as the killer

Starting point is 00:02:53 seemed to be killing people. So I feel like, I don't know if Jason just exists in the lake and takes him down that way, but I, I really love the, like, the plot and the story that the mom's like, switches. She's a psycho, man. She's like, kill him, mommy. It's so freaking weird. I mean, this movie got me. I was thoroughly entertained. I know we had been prepped in some of the comments that you guys were like, Friday 13th be prepped. It's not, it's not that good. Or it's a little, it's a bit of a snooze and like I don't know I'm probably talking way too loud for Roxy's ears

Starting point is 00:03:28 I always blow off y'all that's okay I learned where the thing was thank you um no and everybody was like Roxy why are you being so mean to Tara telling her she's loud I am loud though and I'm not being mean I love her I also love my ear drums I'm a loud person I am loud too yeah but um I scream purge at you I mean yeah and I let her do it yeah um the music choice is the old the old the way that they took their time in the shots, the casting. I mean, I really liked it, and I wasn't bored. Maybe it's just because I'm here with rocks

Starting point is 00:04:01 and we're in it together watching this movie. Like, I was really trying to think, if I was at home, maybe by myself, would I be as engaged? I'm like, but I don't watch horror movies alone by myself. So I don't know. I really, I liked this. I thought that it was very interesting

Starting point is 00:04:20 and the reveal of the end, wild. the bait and switch that it's the freaking mom get out of town I still need to know if they're in on it together if he was out of the like killing and she was too whenever the time was at the time it wouldn't have been a bait and switch

Starting point is 00:04:36 because they didn't think that it was they didn't know who Jason Borges was right you're right if you were watching this movie it's just funny because the only reason it was such a bait and switch for us is because for decades I'm sure you've heard like I have

Starting point is 00:04:52 there's Michael Myers, there is Freddie Kruger, and there's Jason Vorty. Exactly. And so, and there's ghost face. But, like, I think that you and I knew the killer of this movie was Jason Vorgies, which is why at some point I even said, I'm not suss of any of these women because I know Jason's the killer. Exactly. So that's why I think time did well for this movie for us. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:05:18 Or at least for me, I don't want to speak for you, but I felt like every kill. the buildup, like this feels like it deserves its credit because they really did make me feel like a lot. And with, I have to imagine this is in the 70s. I got to look that up. I got to look at I have to imagine it's the 70s. I believe you are exactly right because I saw on the bottom. It said Friday the 13th part part two was only 1881. So that means this is 80, 79, 78, something around there. Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th, good thing we didn't watch the 2009 version. No, okay, this is 1980. Wow, I was wrong.

Starting point is 00:06:00 I was wrong. I was like late 60, but I thought it was 70s. The setting was probably still late 70s. I mean, if it turns 1980 or not. That's at present day. Yeah. So it was 1980. Just to me, and you know, it's so funny because the way that we do things now in

Starting point is 00:06:15 2024, if you are a costume designer, they'll be like, okay, this takes place in the 90s. and then they like make all the 90s the same but the 80s all the same and it's like really 89 and 90 are more similar than 81 and you know so exactly that's why 70s like the 70s yeah exactly so okay um let's let me tell you some things about this and we'll kind of suss out our or go through our thoughts together yeah yeah I got to unpack a few things and I'm I'm super duper curious let's just look at the cast and and what they've done and what people have done from this movie um so like I said, 1980, then you and I were both like, wow, that's our guy, Kevin Bacon. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:54 So let's go and see. I'm like, was this his first film? So Kevin Bacon played Jack. This came out in 1980. Let's scroll to his filmography and see what the hell Kevin Bacon did before this. Okay. So it looks to me like in terms of his acting career, in 78, he was in Animal House. Okay.

Starting point is 00:07:14 Never saw it. In 79, he was in a movie called Starting. over which I didn't see um then he was in a TV movie then he was in um hero at large in 80 and then this okay so he was working and to be honest I'm trying to remember Kevin bacon an animal house which I've seen a chip diller I'm sure he was one of the frat guys but okay so uh he had done a few things and then after that he goes after this he goes on to do guiding life Oh, he must have been doing Guiding Light before this. Oh, he was in so 11 episodes.

Starting point is 00:07:52 Love it. So that's what Kevin Bacon was up to. Let's take a look at some of these other actors. So the girl who played Alice, who was our final girl of this, the only one who lives. The only one we can expect to probably see in the next one, I won't look that up because we don't want to know. But let's see. What did she do after this? I mean, she says she's known for Friday 13th series for Wolf, where she loops voices.

Starting point is 00:08:17 It doesn't look like there's, I don't see anything else that you and I would definitely know. Okay, we got to find out Mrs. Voorhees. Mrs. Voorhe's name is Betsy Palmer. Okay, yeah, was she big? Because it said Mrs. Fouries is Betsy Palmer. I'm like, was she a big deal before? Doesn't, not that I know of from this. It looks like she was in 2005's Penny Dreadful.

Starting point is 00:08:43 Maybe Sean Cunningham just was friends with these guys. I don't know. and cast his buddies who had worked. Let's take a look at him for a second. Let's see what's going on with the director. So Sean Cunningham. He did Friday 13th. So he's a producer on all of them.

Starting point is 00:09:00 Let's see what he did as a director. Okay. It says that he started by directing shorts. Then he did a movie called Together in 71. Then here come the Tigers in 78. Mani's orphaned in 78. movies I don't know, and then this in 80. So this seems like his first big thing. Interesting. Strangers watching in 82, spring break in 83, new kids in 85, Deep Star 6 and

Starting point is 00:09:27 89. But it doesn't look like he ever directed another Friday movie. And I don't recognize any of those other movies. Interesting how he took a break between 71 all the way to 77. It's a long break. Oh, this says in the trivia about him that he's a close friend of West Cravens, which makes perfect sense. Now let's look at some stuff about Friday the 13th. Okay, I'm ready to unpack. Reject Nation, when I heard that this company wanted to partner up with us yet again, I was so enthusiastic about it. Reason being, I had already been using their product for well over a year by the point we first ever collaborated with them. So the fact that we get to have this ongoing partnership just makes me a happy camper. And that is, of course, for the

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Starting point is 00:14:23 nobosco in new jersey the camp is still in operation and it was a wall uh it has a wall of friday the 13th memorabilia to honor the movie was set there oh my god you could go to that camp it's in operation Wild. Betsy Palmer said that if it were not for the fact that she was in desperate need of a new car, she would never have accepted the role of Pamela Voorhees. In fact, after she read the script, she called the movie a piece of shit. Over the years, however, Palmer did warm up to the film as it made her more famous than infamous and made appearances, conventions, and in documentaries to discuss it. Why was she infamous before? I don't know Because she was a killer Like a bad No made her more famous than infamous This film made her more famous than infamous

Starting point is 00:15:13 That means she must have been infamous prior Right Was she kind of a dick I don't know The film earned 30 Let us know if you guys know in the comments The film earned $39 million At the domestic box office

Starting point is 00:15:25 On a budget of 550,000 Oh my God This movie did great It's worldwide gross was 59 million Good on you Sean Cunningham. Tom Savini was one of the first crew members on board for the film because the producers idolized his special effects makeup in Dawn of the Dead, which came out in 78. Okay, great.

Starting point is 00:15:46 I mean, he did a great job. I mean, if he did the axe and the head, that was awesome. The knife coming through was cool. Also, Swamp Kid was Jason. Awesome. While most of the cast and crew stayed at local hotels during filming, some of the most dedicated, including Tom Savini and Tazzo and Staff. Rackus stayed at the actual campsite. They had Savini's Beta Max VCR and only a couple of movies such as Barbarella and Marathon Man on videotape to keep themselves entertained so each night they would watch one.

Starting point is 00:16:19 To this day, Savini says he can recite those movies by heart. Wow, they did it old school. That's a method acting right there. That's a great story. Because the camp was closed during filming and situated in the deep New Jersey woods, the cast and crew didn't see much out. side interference, but it turned out they had a very famous neighbor, rock star Lou Reed, who owned a farm nearby, quote, we got to watch Lou Reed play for free right in front of us while we were making the film, sound man Richard Murphy said, he came by the set and we hung

Starting point is 00:16:53 around with each other and he was just a really great guy. That's so random that that's where Lou Reed lived. Right. Like, what? That's wild. I guess he really was taking a walk on the wild side. Okay. In the 18th highest grossing film of the year,

Starting point is 00:17:12 facing stiff horror film competition such as the Shining, dressed to Kill, the Fog, and Prom Night. Wow. Oh. So this came out the same year as Shining. And that's why it was so low, an 18th? Oh my God. Harry Crosby, 18th highest grossing of the year.

Starting point is 00:17:30 Oh, that's not that low. Oh, yeah, yeah. Harry Crosby, who played Bill in this movie, is the son of Bing Crosby. Oh, wild. Dang. Wow, so much stuff. Victor Miller admitted that he was purposely writing the success

Starting point is 00:17:46 of John Carpenter's Halloween, which was 1978. Director, Sean Cunningham, even approached Halloween producer Irwin Yablans, to produce the film, but he declined as he wasn't interested in doing another horror movie. Oh, after the success of Halloween, I wonder why that producer was not interested. Probably just wanted to branch out. The director, this has been quoted as saying that the type of actors that he saw for the film were good-looking kids who you might see in a Pepsi commercial.

Starting point is 00:18:14 They did look like that. They all were pretty people on there for sure. Listen, this one really throws me for a... You got to read a spoiler. Is there spoilers on there when you go all the way down to the red... Why would I do that? Well, because we already watched it. It won't get spoilers for the next one?

Starting point is 00:18:31 I don't think so, right? Or maybe we would. Maybe skip it. You're right, because we're doing a whole thing. I'm scared spoilers or spoil things. I know. I thought that they only kept spoilers in that spoiler section on IMDB for the movie that we just watched.

Starting point is 00:18:44 Maybe I don't know. You might be right. Tell us in the comments. Yeah, you let's know. For the next movie, if we can read the spoiler section IMD or if it's going to ruin next movies for us. So the cool thing about this is that when we were going to watch it, Greg was like, you know, it might not be as, like, don't be so hyped for it because I was coming in like, you, like you, we were so hyped.

Starting point is 00:19:06 So excited. Because we had just done, we've been doing, we saw the original child's play, we saw the original nightmare on Elm Street and then this one. And we were just thinking like, wow, these are all some of the major ones. So I was thinking this is going to be amazing. But he was like, you know, they get better as they go, he said. So I think that helped because it really lowered my expectations going. in because I thought that this might be trash and it is not. It's not.

Starting point is 00:19:30 The way it was shot was beautiful. The score is incredible. The suspense and tension is great. I have to be 100% real with you Tara. I don't know how I feel about the twist of like because this was so raw and grounded her like having Jason in her and then I've seen

Starting point is 00:19:46 Jason actually in the lake. I kind of think he wasn't in the lake because otherwise it makes it so not grounded. Her losing her mind because her son died is still grounded. But him living in the lake still not grounded. It's a horror movie so it's okay you can do that but when the rest of the horror movies

Starting point is 00:20:02 the whole thing is like could really happen. Yeah. And like the way it was slow and breathed. Hitchhiking scares the crap enemy. Don't do it kids. And it was weird when we got that last close up. It was as though we were seeing air bubbles

Starting point is 00:20:18 kind of in the water as we faded to black which is giving us the intention. I mean we know that she was found in the lake, so she was either, it's a figment of her imagination, but I'm like, no, I think Jason be living in the lake. And I agree with you. That's not as grounded of a concept. I'm glad that they opened up with the mom, because that is a creepy, like her being like, help, help, come get me. And then she's like, I'm going to, I'll kill him for you, honey. Like, it's weird and creepy. But yeah, I guess we'll

Starting point is 00:20:51 have to see when they reveal Jason, is he going to like walk out of the lake and put on a hockey mask like I don't know crystal lake baby yeah I'm excited for part two I hope we get there if you guys want to see us do the next one then like and make sure that you're commenting let us know that's how it works I have to be again real with you guys Greg is letting us pitch a lot of stuff here because you guys like us yeah and so the more you like us the more the less tight of a leash right the more we'll be able to read your comments and do what you guys want us to do the more it matters when you say They like, do cover this next.

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