FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

Back in 1957, a physically deformed and intellectually disabled child, Jason Voorhees, drowns at Camp Crystal Lake while the supervising counselors were off bumping uglies.  A year later (the opening of the movie), two camp counselors are murdered while banging.  The camp is shut down.  Now 22 years later, the camp is opening back up for business.  But first it needs some repairs, so two weeks before the grand opening a small group of counselors descend on Camp Crystal Lake to fix it up a bit: mount old half-destroyed archery targets out on the archery range, hang up a rain gutter with the worst hammering job in movie history and remove a tree stump, cause god knows there's nothing worse than a tree stump in the middle of a forest.  Anyway, somebody doesn't take kindly to all of these improvements and starts killing everybody.  Who could it be?!

As far as the Friday the 13th series goes, Part 1 is probably the weakest of the first 8 (after Part 8 the series just goes all to shit), but it's still an enjoyable film and interesting to see how the series evolved from a standard early slasher film to within a few years (Parts 3 & 4) being super awesome!

Somewhat dated, but still an enjoyable ride and a fun film to revisit.

Part 2 - Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Part 3 - Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Part 4 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Part 5 - Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Part 6 - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Part 7 - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Part 8 - Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Part 9 - The Final Friday: Jason Goes to Hell (1993)
Part 10 - Jason X (2001)
Freddy vs Jason (2003)
Remake - Friday the 13th (2009)

Hey, it's ol' boy from THE PRIVATE EYES.

THE SILVER HORDE (1930)

I was recently reading about Jean Arthur and I was surprised to find out that she and Joel McCrea starred together in, not one, but two movies before THE MORE THE MERRIER in 1943.  This was the first film and ADVENTURE IN MANHATTAN (1936) the second.  THE SILVER HORDE finds Joel McCrea as an average dude trying to make some money in the salmon business in order to earn some money and therefore be worthy of marrying rich girl Jean Arthur.  Yeah.  Anyway, Joel is in Alaska working his ass off while a rival love interest of Arthur is doing his best to upset McCrea's plans.  But then comes the big shocker...I hope you're ready for this...McCrea's main financial backer used to be a prostitute.  Gasp!!!  Maybe that was a little bit more shocking back in 1930.

As a piece of movie history THE SILVER HORDE is mildly interesting to classic movie nerds like myself.  It has a young Arthur and McCrea, a number of silent movie veterans and portions of it were actually filmed in Alaska, but that's really it.  If nothing in that last sentence grabbed your attention then you should probably just pass.