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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9497857" data-attributes="member: 7015707">Friday the 13th part 1 is particularly scary because (soiler alert) (and in stark contrast to its sequels and to most other slasher films in general) the killer is someone I could imagine actually existing. A figurative monster like Pamela is all too plausible, an actual monster like her son not so much.Also the fact that she is genuinely unlikeable adds to the tension. I could imagine myself hanging out with Freddy or Pinhead or Frank N. Furter, but not with Pamela VoorheesSame goes for the Saw series. Like Pamela Voorhees, Jigsaw is a sanctimonious prick and that makes him more powerful as a villain.This is also part of the reason why in the case of Frankenstein and Phantom of the Opera the novel is so much more powerful than the movie and musical (respectively). The adaptations tuned down the villains' self-righteous self-pitying personality disorders to such a degree that their horror is entirely lost</blockquote>