John Carpenter Still Hates Friday the 13th

Halloween director John Carpenter recently appeared on Podcast One's Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, where he had this to say about Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs Friday the 13th, as reprinted by The Hollywood Reporter:

“One springs from an organic idea and has a truly artist’s eye working. And Friday the 13th, I feel, affects me as very cynical. It’s very cynical movie-making. It just doesn’t rise above its cheapness."

On Halloween copycats:

"I think the reason that all these slasher movies came in the ’80s was a lot of folks said, ‘Look at that Halloween movie. It was made for peanuts, and look at the money it’s made. We can make money like that. That’s what the teenagers want to see.' So they just started making them, cranking them out. Most of them were awful.”