Editing Friday the 13th (1980 film) (section)

====Teen sexuality====
Film scholar Williams views ''Friday the 13th'' as "symptomatic of its era", particularly [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan-era]] America, and part of a trajectory of films such as ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' (1974) and ''[[Race with the Devil]]'' (1975), which "exemplify a particular apocalyptic vision moving from disclosing family contradictions to self-indulgent [[nihilism]]."{{sfn|Williams|2015|p=185}} The film's recurring use of [[point-of-view shot]]s from the killer's perspective have been noted by scholars such as Philip Dimare as "inherently [[voyeurism|voyeuristic]]".{{sfn|Dimare|2011|p=186}} Dimare regards the film as a "cautionary tale that succeeds in warning against the sexual impropriety even as it fetishizes violent transgression."{{sfn|Dimare|2011|p=186}}

Film critic Timothy Shary notes in his book ''Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen'' (2012) that while ''Halloween'' introduced a "more subtle sexual curiosity within its morbid moral lesson," films such as ''Friday the 13th'' "capitali[zed] on the reactionary aspect of teen sexuality, slaughtering wholesale those youth who deigned to cross the threshold of sexual awareness."{{sfn|Shary|2012|p=54}} Commenting on the film's violence and sexuality, film scholar David J. Hogan notes that, "throughout the film, teenage boys are hideously dispatched, but not with the same buildup and attention to detail that Cunningham and makeup wiz [[Tom Savini]] reserved for nubile young girls."{{sfn|Hogan|2016|p=254}}