31 Spooky Movies in October: 2012 Edition, Part 12

31.  Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)

This is it, the last movie of the month.  I’ve watched a lot of movies across a pretty wide spectrum of horror subgenres in the last 31 days; it’s a lot of ground to try to cover in any coherent way, but there might not be a more appropriate movie to cap things off than the original Friday the 13th (although the word “original” is a bit ironic in this case).  I say this because to me, Friday the 13th symbolizes so much that’s good and bad about horror films; why they can be the highest expression of film art and how they can be the worst sort of cash-in junk, often at the same time.