Friday The 13th
1980
On Friday, June 13th of 1958, two Camp Crystal Lake counselors, Claudette and Barry, slip away from the campfire for an illicit rendezvous. They are discovered and murdered by an unseen assailant. Two decades later, the camp is preparing to reopen. The town loony, Crazy Ralph, warns camp cook Annie that "Camp Blood" has a death .. Read more
| Starring | Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Kevin Bacon |
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| Director | Sean S. Cunningham |
| Genres | Horror |
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Friday The 13th
On Friday, June 13th of 1958, two Camp Crystal Lake counselors, Claudette and Barry, slip away from the campfire for an illicit rendezvous. They are discovered and murdered by an unseen assailant. Two decades later, the camp is preparing to reopen. The town loony, Crazy Ralph, warns camp cook Annie that "Camp Blood" has a death curse, but Annie continues to hitch her way to camp. Local truck driver Enos tells her the camp lore: the murders in '58, a boy drowning in '57, the fires and bad water that thwarted attempts to reopen the camp. Annie then catches a ride with the wrong person, who chases her through the woods and slits her throat. Alice is left alone against Pamela, whose son Jason drowned at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957. Now all the counselors of the camp must die, and it is one or the other in a match to the death.Who will survive the long night at Camp Blood?
| Starring | Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Kevin Bacon, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor |
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| Director | Sean S. Cunningham |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Sep 2003 Blu-ray: 19 Oct 2009 Production year: 1980 |
| Format | DVD |
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Essentially a cheap rural rip-off of John Carpenter's hugely influential Halloween, this trail-blazing mix of bloody horror and teenage terror from low-budget sleaze merchant Sean Cunningham kick-started the splatter stalk-and-slash vogue of the eighties. Detailing the catalogue of gruesome slaughter that occurs when Camp Crystal Lake is re-opened for summer business after a brutal unsolved murder has kept it closed for years, Cunningham skilfully works up plenty of gory scares, at the same time allowing the audience to sympathise with the counsellors under repeated attack from a mystery assailant. The dramatic battle between Betsy Palmer and sole survivor Adrienne King is strong stuff and leads to a Carrie-inspired jolt ending, which left the door open for numerous sequels of varying quality.
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Horror suspense story with no raison d'être but a series of inventively gory shock moments, which were enough for it to ring the box-office bell.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Friday The 13th - A Solid Slasher Flick
Friday The 13th (Part One) is a solid slasher film, with some unexpected twists. Rated on its own it builds up slowly to a pulsating climax, but when compared to other members of the horror canon, such as 'Halloween' it falls a little short in tension. The `shaky-cam` style scenes are well worked, as we look through the mystery killer's eyes, while there is plenty of the usual sex-crazed banter from the young Americans. The sound track appears to borrow somewhat from the strings of 'Psycho', but still manages to add something to the proceedings. Plot-wise, the first hour is highly derivative. The crescendo of action and revelation in the final half-hour, however, really captures the imagination. The picture quality on this DVD is crisp and clean, though the sound is a negative, offering only one channel. Overall a recommended horror, but not up to the standards of 'Halloween' or 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
what a thriller
this film was great to watch, however it scares you from head to toe.
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