Friday The 13th: Critic Reviews

72%

MovieWeb: 6 reviews

60%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 3 years ago
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 3 years ago
Charles Cassady Common Sense Media

20

Beware of this infamous, sadistic slasher film.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

60

It hasn't aged well; its nonstyle renders it pretty sedate these days.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion

Within the dead-teenie realm it achieves a certain classicism
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Nelson City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Has there ever been a more unimaginative exercise in big-screen terror?
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

70

What makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn't been set in stone yet, and some choices that director Sean S. Cunningham makes in the film that work against type.
Full Review » 3 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

75

a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well-timed shocks, which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry
Full Review » 3 years ago
Brian Webster Apollo Guide

64

How do you sum up a movie that's really quite awful yet helped define a filmmaking era?
Full Review » 3 years ago
Screen International

Full Review » 3 years ago
Newsday

Full Review » 3 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

0

Full Review » 3 years ago
Matthew Turner ViewLondon

60

Full Review » 3 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

63

Whether you want to credit or blame Friday the 13th for its role in influencing modern cineplex cinema is a matter of taste. [Blu-ray]
Full Review » 3 years ago
Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm

38

...a woefully bad slasher flick, complete with an inept cast (including Kevin Bacon in uncomfortably tight shorts); laborious pacing; and an interminable catfight climax.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Christian Toto What Would Toto Watch?

50

Friday the 13th set the tone for the modern slasher flick. So you know which film to blame for all those lousy horror films.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine

50

You really have to wonder what exactly made the Friday the 13th series so wildly successful.
Full Review » 3 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

60

...perhaps more than any other film, it helped to popularize the slasher genre and codify the formula.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Dustin Putman DustinPutman.com

63

A skillful, if by-the-numbers, horror pic.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Stefan Birgir Stefansson sbs.is

88

A classic Bacon
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

Unsophisticated by today's standards perhaps, but still contains plenty to satisfy the dedicated gore-hound.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Kim Newman Empire Magazine

40

It may be one of the most famous, but it's certainly not an original on which others are based.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy

30

Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films.
Full Review » 5 years ago