Feb 15, 2017Find some horror specific critics. Pretty niche genre. Also, don't obsess over numbers that are the result of aggregation. They're a helpful, convenient overview if you wanna peep something, but they're not explanatory in reverse. On a critical level, I'd call a lot of Friday the 13th movies laughable s---. I still enjoy them all the same. They're incidentally hilarious, tonally inconsistent, brutal, absurd, silly, etc. A beautiful trainwreck. I can point to critically valuable things like witnessing a franchise shift creative hands so often and how that transforms the material or what constitutes a "mean k---" versus an "earned k---" in the horror genre, etc, but I don't need those arguments to defend my appreciation of them. I'd rather rather watch a s-----y 80s camp slasher any day than let a universally lauded snore-teur like Alexander Sokurov put me to sleep.
