Saturday the 14th (1981)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Everytime I went to the movie store I saw the cover of the movie and wonder why my dad never rented this movie. Today in 2018 I watched it. Wow, this is a terrible movie!!! If you think it's funny I'm happy there are movies for special people out there.

Could not get past that girls scream! It's awful! Not funny, not scary just NOPE!

This movie was telecast on TV in my part of the world (India) in the early Nineties when the cable TV boom hit India. It was released as Friday THE 13th IS BAD, Saturday THE 14th IS WORSE. With a catchy title like that how can we miss this scary movie. At that time I had heard about the Friday the 13th horror series- but had not seen that movie. My brother and I waited with baited breath for this movie which we expected to be much, much, much more terrifying than Friday the 13th. but what we saw was a mild movie; a movie which just about gets a D- grade among horror movies. At that time id dint know that this was a spoof, or that its one not to be taken seriously. now thinking back- did i enjoy that movie- yup- and its another golden oldie which i treasure of my childhood.

Saturday the 14th (1981) * 1/2 (out of 4) At a will reading daddy (Richard Benjamin) inherits a cursed old house but he avoids all the warnings and moves them into it and sure enough soon monsters and other creatures are running wild. A Dracula type character (Jeffrey Tambor) wants to buy the house but the family refuses and soon Van Helsing comes to their aid. I've always wondered how many people went to watch this movie at the theater or rented it expecting some sort of slasher rip-off of Friday THE 13TH. I know when I was young I was one and I remember turning the picture off after discovering it wasn't and I'm sure this film's horrid reputation comes from people such as myself watching it, expecting something different and then bashing the picture. Viewing it today I went in knowing what to expect and it turned out the thing really wasn't all that good even when you know it's just a kid's picture. This thing would end up being sandwiched between horror spoofs like YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE MONSTER SQUAD and those two featured everything going right while this one here has mainly one failure after another. At just 76-minutes the film actually feels way too long and I think there are just way too many dry spots where nothing interesting is happening and there's certainly not enough laughs for a comedy. Another problem is that the film is all over the place in regards to its style, visual images and to be honest I'm really not sure what the film was trying to do. At times it references other more popular items like The Twilight Zone but at other times the film feels as if it's not trying to connect with the target audience. The performances are also quite mixed with Benjamin pretty much sleepwalking through his part. Tambor is really wasted as the Dracula character, which is a shame because he's quite funny and should have been given more to do. I did enjoy Kari Michaelsen who played the teenage daughter as she was quite charming and was certainly easy on the eyes. She also managed to be in one of the best scenes where she's taking a bath not knowing a creature is in there with her. The humor of the film avoiding nudity and how they did it was quite funny and it's too bad there weren't more scenes like this. There are few other funny moments including a few gags about "loud owls" but sadly the majority of the film is just a bust and have very limited appeal.