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UNCUT - Friday the 13th The Series: Hellowe'en (S1E5)

🕑 Added 2024-10-15 14:00:11 +0000 UTC

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thebeefmaster

I watched this series when it came out. It was a, very much, hit and miss ride. The hits were never huge but the misses could be pretty bad. I have another series that you may want to check out. It has a similar theme as Friday the 13th, i.e. cursed artifacts, but it is, I think, a far better show. It is called "Warehouse 13". Not award winning but mostly fun. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132290/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_warehouse

Keith Capirano

I loved this show when i was younger but after watching this episode and some others, i cant believe it was this bad. Good concept but the low budget and bad acting make it a hard watch. Very disappointing, but thanks guys for,giving it a try.

Mushroom-Bagel-Bites

Well, I think fond memories may be down to the fact that if you didn't have cable, you watched what was on the air - which for younger folks was usually the then new-in-my area Fox which also aired TNG. After a few weeks, familiarity fosters fondness and you overlook the bad stuff. If it were streaming somewhere now and I had nothing else to do, I could maybe give it a watch through. But I doubt it.

Paul O'Neal

When you are a demon but Dexterity is also your dump stat! "The demon chases you around the morgue." "I knock over some bodies to try and trip it." "Okay. [Rolls a natural 1]. Sigh. The demon trips, falls on a knife, and dies." "I will loot the body." "You can't. It disappears." Literally what was going through my head during that scene! LOL! Great reaction, guys!

Josh (Target Audience)

Thanks! Will definitely return at least once more at some point to give it another chance

Chris

Ooff this is a weird first episode to get into the series with. I watched it as a kid and enjoyed the needful-things-ness of it all. The perpetrators or villains of the episodes are sometimes good people in dire straits who'll do something awful to make their life better. I always found that compelling. Also worth mentioning - Louis isn't really in the show beyond this. If you like the Jack character, there are a couple Jack-centric episodes that might be worth checking out if you ever go back. "Night Prey" is a good one from what I remember. Features some vampers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFySbpuCpQ

Josh (Target Audience)

Well we definitely tried our best to find the humor in it 🥴

AzoriusMage

Pretty weak felt more like a comedy than a horror show.

Prof Moff

Okay well that was ......... I have to admit, I have no idea really what was going on. I thought I fell asleep, but I didn't. THAT is the best thing I can say about it. It was so weird, I could not fall asleep because I was sure something was going to happen. I was wrong

Josh (Target Audience)

Thanks for the recommendations!

Collin Freeman

Absolutely. They are very episodic, not anthology. X-Files was a combination: main story episodic but with the continuing through-line of Mulder and Scully being watched and interacting with suspicious government agents, so the viewer was rewarded each episode by "what are they going to do?", both for the protagonists and the government agents.

Brian K

I watched this show in first run as a kid and enjoyed it. Since not many reruns were aired, I haven’t seen the show in decades - and frankly I don’t remember this Halloween episode at all. There are definitely better episodes, but the low budget feel will continue throughout the series. According to Wikipedia, the first season placed second in the male 18- to 49-year-old demographic, behind only Star Trek TNG. Some episodes I recall liking were “Doctor Jack,” “Scarecrow,” “Vanity’s Mirror,” “Quilt of Hathor” (2-parter), “13 O’clock,” “The Prophecies” (2-parter), “Crippled Inside.”

Josh (Target Audience)

Definitely a benefit of this format is being able to jump around to find which series we enjoy more than others!

Vina

I spoke to soon! I skimmed through a couple episodes from the later seasons and it doesn't really get much better - maybe some better and more coherent directing but the acting doesn't get much better, and the low budget feel persists too. I watched this series when it was originally on the air, so I was like around 8 to 10 years old, and it was definitely moodier and spookier at that age than it is for me now. This series probably reruns better in my memories than in an actual rewatch lol

Collin Freeman

I have not seen this series since it first aired. As I recall, I generally liked most of the 1st season, but gave up on it in the 2nd season. I was never happy with them co-opting the Friday the 13th name for something that had nothing to do with the movies. Basically, this "monster of the week" type of series was the way they did "horror" shows back in the 70's, 80's, and even into the early 90's. Kolchak: The Night Stalker was done in that same way. Consequently, all of these series hold a certain nostalgia appeal for me, but looking at them in hindsight with objectivity, they were not all good, redundant, and mundane for most of their episodes. I think you are smart to only sample a few episodes of these series rather than a whole season. X-Files took this premise and ratcheted it up in quality with a continuous through-line with the FBI agents and their interactions with the government.

Josh (Target Audience)

Yeah we talk about it a bit after the reaction

Vina

If you weren't told already, this isn't an anthology show. It's episodic and has the same main characters every episode, they just deal with different supernatural things each time. There are some serialized episodes later in the series though, if I recall. Episode 1 sets up a lot of the context for the rest of the show