More depressing than scary

Most of the Halloween imitators only focused on the superficial details of what made Halloween so scary. Friday the 13th, the first in what must be the worst series in movie history, is an example of this. A bunch of stupid, annoying kids set up for a summer camp's first season since a boy drowned in the lake years before. Are any of these guys as nearly as sympathetic as Jamie Lee Curtis (or as good looking, for that matter)? There are long stretches in voyeuristic boredom that are occasionally broken up by the occasional murder. The identity of the killer and the reason behind the killings are not only ridiculous but just plain insignificant; the movie is just not interested in the plot. Unlike other violent cult-horror classics that came before this like Halloween and Night of the Living Dead, the film isn't with the victims. It's with the killer, and the whole point is for the audience to anticipate the next slaughter. The young cast members are not seen as people, just vehicles for cheap thrills. First maybe with a little nudity and then bloodshed. This "Friday" isn't the worst in the series, which is garbage, but it's probably the most depressing. At least the later films had much more elaborate violence and gore for even greater cheap thrills.