Worried by their friends' disappearances, Alice and Bill leave the main cabin to investigate. Later, Steve returns and recognizes the unseen killer, who stabs him. Brenda hears a voice calling for help and ventures outside to the archery range, where the lights turn on. The killer follows Marcie into the bathrooms and slams an axe into her face. When Marcie leaves to use the bathroom, Jack's throat is pierced with an arrow from beneath the bed. While Jack and Marcie have sex in one of the cabin's bunk beds, they are unaware of Ned's body above them, his throat having been slit. Ned sees someone walk into a cabin and follows. As a thunderstorm approaches, Steve leaves the campground to stock supplies. After being dropped off, she hitches another ride from an unseen person, who chases her into the woods and slashes her throat.Īt the camp, counselors Ned, Jack, Bill, Marcie, Brenda, and Alice, along with owner Steve Christy, refurbish the cabins and facilities.
While driving, Enos warns Annie about the camp's troubled past, beginning when a young boy drowned in Crystal Lake in 1957. Twenty-one years later, camp counselor Annie Phillips is driven halfway to the reopened Camp Crystal Lake by Enos, a truck driver, despite warnings from elderly Crazy Ralph. In 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, counselors Barry Jackson and Claudette Hayes sneak inside a storage cabin to have sex, where an unseen assailant murders them. A direct sequel, Friday the 13th Part 2, was released one year later.
by a major studio, its box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, and a 2009 series reboot. Aside from being the first independent film of its kind to secure distribution in the U.S. Critical response was divided, with some praising the film's cinematography, score, and performances, while numerous others derided it for its depiction of graphic violence. Released on May 9, 1980, Friday the 13th was a major box office success, grossing $59.8 million worldwide. secured international distribution rights. A bidding war ensued over the finished film, ending with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film for domestic distribution, while Warner Bros. After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the summer of 1979, on an estimated budget of $550,000. Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in Variety in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the screenplay. Its plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned summer camp. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon.
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S.