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Friday the 13th
They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
( Horror / Mystery / Thriller )


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MPAA Rating:
R

US Runtime: 90 min

Premiere Date:
May 10, 1980   [USA]
 
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
 
Writers: Victor Miller
Sean S. Cunningham
 
Producers: Sean S. Cunningham   [Producer]
Alvin Geiler   [Executive Producer]
Steve Miner   [Associate Producer]
 
Music by Harry Manfredini
 
Cinematography: Barry Abrams
 
Edited by: Bill Freda
 
Production Companys: Georgetown Productions Inc.
Paramount Pictures
Sean S. Cunningham Films
 


Cast:

Adrienne King
Alice
Harry Crosby
Bill
Betsy Palmer
Mrs. Pamela Voorhees
Peter Brouwer
Steve Christy
Laurie Bartram
Brenda
Jeannine Taylor
Marcie
Kevin Bacon
Jack
Mark Nelson
Ned
Robbi Morgan
Annie
Rex Everhart
Enos
Ronn Carroll
Sergeant Tierney
 
Ron Millkie
Officer Dorf
Walt Gorney
Crazy Ralph
Willie Adams
Barry
Debra S. Hayes
Claudette
Dorothy Kobs
Trudy
Sally Anne Golden
Sandy
Mary Rocco
Operator
Ken L. Parker
Doctor
Ari Lehman
Jason Voorhees
Irwin Keyes
Busboy (uncredited)
 

Crew:

Martin Kitrosser
script supervisor
 
 

Special Effects:

Gajdecki Visual Effects (GVFX)
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$700,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color
Laboratory:
DeLuxe
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical

Quotes:

  • Alice: The boy... is he dead, too?
    Tierney: Who?
    Alice: The boy. Jason.
    Tierney: Jason?
    Alice: In the lake, the one... the one who attacked me... the one who pulled me underneath the water.
    Tierney: Ma'am, we didn't find any boy.
    Alice: But... then he's still out there.
     
  • Ned: He neglected to mention that downtown they call this place Camp Blood.
     
  • Bill: If this is a joke, I'm gonna brain em'.
     
  • Pamela Voorhees: You know a boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counsellors weren't paying any attention...They were making love while that poor boy drowned. His name was Jason.
     
  • Brenda: Just wait until he lands on my old Kentucky home!
    Bill: More beer? More Beer!
     

Trivia:

  • In the scene where Bill is found impaled to a door with arrows, his eye twitches continually because the eye effect that Savini applied was actually burning his eye and causing him excruciating pain.
     
  • Cameo of Tom Savini. as the body being thrown through a window.
     
  • Sean S. Cunningham has been quoted as saying that the type of actors that he sought for the film were "good-looking kids who you might see in a Pepsi commercial"
     
  • Adrienne King got the role of Alice only after the original filmmakers gave up trying to land Sally Field.
     
  • The fake ending scene in which Alice is attacked by Jason, was shot three times. Once in September, then October and finally in November; when the temperature was 28 degrees outside.
     


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