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Release Date:
9 May 1980 (USA)
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Tagline:
On Friday The 13th, They Began To Die Horribly, One......By One (UK - Theatrical Tagline) more
Plot:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to re-open a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. full summary | full synopsis
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4 nominations
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A Classic, genre defining
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Betsy Palmer | ... | Mrs. Pamela Voorhees | |
| Adrienne King | ... | Alice | |
| Jeannine Taylor | ... | Marcie | |
| Robbi Morgan | ... | Annie | |
| Kevin Bacon | ... | Jack | |
| Harry Crosby | ... | Bill | |
| Laurie Bartram | ... | Brenda | |
| Mark Nelson | ... | Ned | |
| Peter Brouwer | ... | Steve Christy | |
| Rex Everhart | ... | The Truck Driver | |
| Ronn Carroll | ... | Sgt. Tierney | |
| Ron Millkie | ... | Officer Dorf | |
| Walt Gorney | ... | Crazy Ralph | |
| Willie Adams | ... | Barry | |
| Debra S. Hayes | ... | Claudette |
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A Long Night at Camp Blood (USA) (working title)
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95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Finland:(Banned) (1980) |
Finland:K-18 (2002) |
Portugal:M/18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Hungary:18 |
Portugal:M/16 (re-rating) |
Australia:MA (Cable TV rating) |
France:-12 (DVD rating) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:R |
Canada:R |
France:-16 |
Iceland:(Banned) |
Ireland:18 |
Italy:VM18 |
Mexico:C |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 (DVD rating) |
Norway:16 (heavily cut) |
Norway:18 |
South Korea:15 (DVD uncut version) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 (video rating) (1987) |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:R (Reg. No. 25901) |
West Germany:18 |
Canada:18+ (Quebec) |
Singapore:M18 |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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Betsy Palmer said that if it were not for the fact that she was in desperate need of a new car, she would never have taken the part of Pamela Voorhees. In fact, after she read the script she called the film "a piece of shit".
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Continuity: When Alice wakes up on the couch, she is wearing white socks. When she walks into the kitchen to make the coffee, her feet have a dark color (either dark socks or shoes).
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Quotes:
Pamela Voorhees:
[seeing Brenda's dead body] Oh, good Lord! So young. So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this?
Alice: Bill's out there.
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Alice: Bill's out there.
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Why does Camp Crystal Lake have such a bad reputation?Why would Brenda walk all the way through the rain to the communal bathrooms only to brush her teeth and wash her face when a sink is clearly shown in her own cabin?
Is there a longer version available than the R-rated version?
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Without a doubt, the work of Cunningham and Carpenter during 1978 & 1980 rocked the world of the horror genre. Friday the 13th is one of the films that to this day still has repercussions. It demonstrated the importance of setting the tone in horror movies, making the audience themselves feel as if they too were being stalked. Cunningham also was one of the few directors to introduce the idea of a possible female serial killer.
Without this film, Scream's Randy would have never uttered those famous words, 'There are certain rules to surviving a horror movie..' This film combined with Carpenter's Halloween, firmly etched the rules in stone. The creepy music, the infamous "ch-ch-ch-ha-ha-ha", the crude photography and the graphic depiction of the murders of the counsellors all blend together to give a classic piece of film history. It scared the hell out of multitudes of teenagers who, in many instances could see themselves in the victims of the stalker. These weren't bad people getting killed, these were just your typical average American kids, having a good time, getting picked off.
That is what makes this film so defining, that is why, for all its crude and harsh imagery, this is a classic. This is why alot of recent attempts at horror don't measure up. It's not the effects or the blood necessarily, it's the atmosphere and the familiarity that bring it home.It is more frightening to think, "That could be me"