Friday the 13th
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Film · TMDB
6.4Camp 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.
Released: 1980-05-0995 minDir: Sean S. CunninghamHorror
Cast
- Adrienne King as Alice
- Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees
- Kevin Bacon as Jack
- Jeannine Taylor as Marcie
- Harry Crosby as Bill
- Laurie Bartram as Brenda
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
6.4/10
173,428 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
70%
Metacritic
22/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 6 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Written by
- Victor Miller
- Produced by
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Starring
- Betsy Palmer Adrienne King Harry Crosby Laurie Bartram Mark Nelson Jeannine Taylor Robbi Morgan Kevin Bacon
- Cinematography
- Barry Abrams
- Edited by
- Bill Freda
- Music by
- Harry Manfredini
- Production company
- Georgetown Productions Inc.
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures (United States and Canada) , Warner Bros. (International)
- Release date
- May 9, 1980 ( 1980-05-09 )
- Running time
- 95 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
Key dates
- Published
- 23 October 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- exploitation film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Series
- Friday the 13th
- Followed by
- Friday the 13th Part 2
- Director
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Screenwriter
- Victor Miller
- Composer
- Harry Manfredini
- Producer
Article
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to reopen an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past.
Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in Variety in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the screenplay. After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the fall of 1979, on an estimated budget of between $550,000 and $650,000. A bidding war ensued over the finished film, ending with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film for domestic distribution, while Warner Bros. secured international distribution rights. Friday the 13th became the first independent slasher film to be acquired by a major motion picture studio.