I was really excited when I walked out of Blockbust, clutching Friday the 13th in my arms. When I finished it, I didn't know why I wanted to see it. First of all, Pamela Voorhees has too much character, she was young. She should have been like she was portrayed as in Freddy Vs. Jason (though it was realeased 20 years later), a white haired, scratchy voiced, crazy old fart that she wasn't in the original. She actually didn't seem crazy. Young kids should not watch this as their is too much violence (done with stunning visual effects at least), too much sex, and no good messages whatsoever, as the campers are all sex-craving teenagers with a love for Strip Monopoly and dope. But don't worry young children, it isn't even a good film.

people who make movies like this are stupid!

Now don't listen to Common Sense Media. They are wrong about the movie and it's content. There were only two sex scenes and they weren't even that graphic. A character mentions 'strip monopoly' but you only see her in bra and panties. You don't see any shots of nudity. For violence, there were some violent scenes but they weren't over-the-top and not too gory either. The language is the least of your worries. It's not even an issue. Just infrequent uses of godd*mn and sh*t. That's it. CSM is also wrong about the movie. I thought the movie was really good. There was enough kills, suspense, and it clocks at the perfect time. Overall, Friday the 13th is a perfect slasher flick. I would recommend it to age 15+. Shoot even kids could see it. CSM doesn't know what they're talking about.

Friday the 13th is a great start to the famous slasher series staring Jason Voorhees: except this one didn't have him as the killer yet (he doesn't even has his famous hockey mask until the 3rd movie). This one stars his mom, who is getting revenge for Jason, who drowned in Crystal Lake 20 years ago because the camp counselors weren't watching him. There are a lot of death scenes in this movie, including a pretty gruesome arrow through the neck and throat slashing. While this movie isn't for young kids, it's fine for at least 12 year olds (again, CommonSense overrates the age rating). It's a great movie for horror movie fans, and the ending will definitely throw you off guard. But I won't spoil it, you'll just have to watch the movie yourself ;)

Why the CRAP did they rate this R? I would rate it PG - 13.

I thought is was a great movie. there was a lot of killing as in any slasher movie. the way people died was sometimes gross (like one of the characters gets an ax in her head) but the 80s graphics where bad so it wasn't that scary. there was some suspense but not a lot. there was some nudity. you see two of the characters having sex. over all i think if you are a teen and like slashers then you should see this movie.

too bloody and violent, too sexual, too much language, too much smoking, but hey, it was kinda worth seeing.

oh my god commonsense media makes ever horror movie like that and makes them look bad so you know what im angry at the stupid commonsnse media

really commonsense not for kids it's not all that bad it's just a little accumulation of inappropriate things that makes it to fifteen and up. But if your tween or teen is mature enough and you think he can handle this movie then i'd say go for it. It only has one sex scene that has literally nothing not graphic at all and young Kevin bacon smokes marijuana once and yes there is quite a bit of violence and a few sexual references but nothing overboard and that my review