I had zero expectations, and it fulfilled them. We only watched it as a Thing to Do because the date matched and because it is such a cultural icon. However, some icons are dumb, and this is one. I guess I can say that it was interesting from a cultural perspective? The sex-is-bad motif, made absolutely explicit at the end by the crazy psycho killer (not Jason, the pretty-much-undead killer in all the rest of the movies, but his mother), who, feeling absolutely no compunction about just straight up explaining, in a longish monologue, why she's been killing everyone, announces that it's because years ago her son drowned at the camp because the lifeguards who should have been watching were instead making love. That'll teach 'em to make love on the job! And the Final Girl, sure enough, was frumpier and more sensible than all the other girls, though pretty useless once she got terrified--busy trying to barricade a door when two great windows stand on either side of the door, for instance.
Long story short, I always suspected a slasher movie would be boring, and this one, aside from the entertainment value of stilted dialogue and late 1970s fashions, was indeed boring.
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I had zero expectations, and it fulfilled them. We only watched it as a Thing to Do because the date matched and because it is such a cultural icon. However, some icons are dumb, and this is one. I guess I can say that it was interesting from a cultural perspective? The sex-is-bad motif, made absolutely explicit at the end by the crazy psycho killer (not Jason, the pretty-much-undead killer in all the rest of the movies, but his mother), who, feeling absolutely no compunction about just straight up explaining, in a longish monologue, why she's been killing everyone, announces that it's because years ago her son drowned at the camp because the lifeguards who should have been watching were instead making love. That'll teach 'em to make love on the job! And the Final Girl, sure enough, was frumpier and more sensible than all the other girls, though pretty useless once she got terrified--busy trying to barricade a door when two great windows stand on either side of the door, for instance.
Long story short, I always suspected a slasher movie would be boring, and this one, aside from the entertainment value of stilted dialogue and late 1970s fashions, was indeed boring.