Friday the 13th
Short description
A summer camp with a troubled past is being prepared for reopening. Years earlier, a boy drowned in its lake, and two people were killed soon after, and the camp has stood closed since. The new owner hires a group of young people to fix the place up before the season starts, though locals warn them against it and consider the site cursed. As the counselors settle in, someone begins killing them one by one, leaving two of them to face the night alone.
Sean S. Cunningham directed and produced the film from a screenplay by Victor Miller. It was the second feature he directed, following Together in 1971 and preceding Spring Break and DeepStar Six. The cast includes Adrienne King as Alice, Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees, and Kevin Bacon as Jack, alongside Jeannine Taylor, Harry Crosby and Laurie Bartram. It was made by Paramount with Sean S. Cunningham Films and Georgetown Productions Inc. and runs 95 minutes.
The film took about 40 million dollars worldwide, a large return on a low-budget horror production. On IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 175,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from a few thousand votes. A critics' rating of 6.1 out of 10 from 64 reviews is close to the audience scores, suggesting broadly similar reactions.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film takes place on June 13, 1958, and June 13, 1980.
- The snake scene was not in the script, and it was Tom Savini's idea after an experience in his own cabin during filming. The snake in the scene was real, including its on-screen death.
- A total of 10 people are killed in the film.
- The summer camp used for filming is located in New Jersey and is called Camp Nobebosco.
- In the scene where Brenda's lifeless body flies through the window of the house, the special effects artist Tom Savini himself served as the stunt double.
- Tom Savini was one of the first crew members on board the film because the producers idolized his special effects in "Dawn of the Dead" (1978).
- In the scene where the killer murders Jack, a prosthetic is visible on the actor's neck.
- Victor Miller's working title for the script was "Long Night in Blood Camp."
- While most of the actors and crew stayed in hotels during filming, some of the dedicated cast and crew, including Tom Savini and Taso N. Stavrakis, remained on location at the camp. They had a Savani Betamax player and only a few movies – "Barbarella" (1968) and "Marathon Man" (1976) – on videotape for entertainment, so they watched one of these films every night. To this day, Savini says he can recite these films from memory.
- Victor Miller originally gave Jason the name Josh. Deciding that it sounded too cute, he changed it to Jason after a school bully.
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