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


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MPAA Rating:
R

US Runtime: 95 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
May 09, 1980   [USA]
 
Director: Sean S Cunningham   [Director]
 
Writer: Victor Miller   [Writer]
 
Producers: Sean S Cunningham   [Producer]
Alvin Geiler   [Executive Producer]
Steve Miner   [Associate Producer]
 
Cinematography: Barry Abrams   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: Bill Freda   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Harry Manfredini   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: Virginia Field   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: Caron Coplan   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Julie Hughes   [Casting]
Barry Moss   [Casting]
 
Production Companys: Georgetown Productions Inc.   (US)
Paramount Pictures
Sean S. Cunningham Films   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Cast:

Adrienne King
Alice
Betsy Palmer
Mrs. Voorhees
Kevin Bacon
Jack
Jeannine Taylor
Marcie
Harry Crosby
Bill
Laurie Bartram
Brenda
Mark Nelson
Ned
Peter Brouwer
Steve Christy
Robbi Morgan
Annie
Rex Everhart
Truck Driver
 
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
 
 

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Special Effects Department:

Gajdecki Visual Effects (GVFX)
 
 

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

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$550,000
Revenue:
$59,754,601
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color
Laboratory:
DeLuxe
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical

Quotes:

  • Brenda: Just wait until he lands on my old Kentucky home!
    Bill: More beer? More Beer!
     
  • 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.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Pamela Voorhees: Jason was my son and today is his birthday...
     
  • [While Playing Strip Monopoly]
    Bill: Baltic Avenue.
    Alice: No one ever lands on Baltic Avenue.
    Bill: I think it's a pretty color. I'll buy it.
    [Bill rolls and lands on Baltic Avenue]
    Bill: Ha! Baltic Avenue! You owe me one boot.
    Alice: Alice draws first blood.
    Brenda: That's a terrible way to talk about my feet.
     

Trivia:

  • During the first few weekends of the film's release, makeup/effects artist Tom Savini would go into theaters for the last five minutes of the show to see the audience react to Jason emerging from the lake and grabbing Alice.
     
  • 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"
     
  • Cameo of Tom Savini. as the body being thrown through a window.
     
  • Estelle Parsons was originally signed on to play Mrs. Voorhees.
     
  • 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.
     


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