Friday the 13th (film)

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Friday the 13th is a 1980 slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, admittedly made to cash in on the success of Halloween, the film's theme was to take "mom and apple pie and turn it on its head."

Although the film was poorly received by most, if not all, mainstream film critics, it became one of the most popular slasher films in history. The film's box office success led to a long series of sequels.

1 Plot summary
2 Goofs
3 Cast
4 Notes
5 Awards and nominations
6 See also
7 External links

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Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A group of teenagers return to a summer camp, Camp Crystal Lake, to prepare it for reopening. Many years earlier, a young boy named Jason Voorhees had drowned at the camp, and shortly thereafter, the two counselors responsible were murdered by an unknown assailant, after which the camp was closed. The camp is finally reopened after several unsuccessful attempts. One by one, the new counselors are brutally murdered by Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees.

In 1958 two teenagers snuck off to make out but were brutally murdered, first the male consellor then the woman. Nearly twenty years later the camp is reopened. What they do not know, however, is that they are being stalked. One camper, trying to leave the camp, is picked up by the murderer and subsequently killed. Later, one of the counsellors encounters the killer and seemingly recognises her before being slain. The last counsellor is freaked out by the murders and runs into the killer. The killer is able to stay calm for a moment and reveal herself name to be Mrs. Voorhees (with her first name, Pamela being revealed later), and tells the girl the story of her son who drowned at the camp, blaming the counsellors. Suddenly Mrs Voorhees starts hearing her son's voice, pleading with her to kill the girl. To avenge her son she chases the counsellor through the woods of the camp and attacks her. The girl manages to decapitate her, saving her own life. After killing Mrs Voorhees she takes a boat out into the lake to rest, reasoning it to be the safest place. When morning arrives a body rises out of the water and grabs her. She wakes up, finding the attack in the boat to be a dream. The film ends with her asking if they found a boy in the lake. When it is revealed that no body was ever found the girl proclaims: "Then he's still there"

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Goofs

It has been raining all night, and when Alice escapes from her cabin from Mrs. Voorhees' a second time, she runs to the beach near the docks. If you look in the boat, there's no water at all in the boat.
When Steve returns to Camp Crystal Lake at night, he sees someone when there's a light up ahead. Pause at this point when it shows the Camp sign keep it in slow motion for a second and you will witness Mrs. Voorhees.
In the topic about Mrs. Voorhees, it states that she tried to bring Jason back to life but didn't work (which could result in the hallucinations in probably almost every movie in the series). If it did work and only the one hallucinating could see Jason, how could he have grown from an 11 year old to his forties.
If Jason wasn't a very good swimmer then how come when it shows flashbacks of him drowning, when later after Mrs. Voorhees' dies, he can reach Alice.
When Brenda hears a boy calling for help later in the night, it really sounds like a boy actually crying for help. When we soon hear Mrs. Voorhees' doing it it's just her mocking him. There's no way she can not perfect it after an hour or so when she has alreayd done it.
It must be pretty impossible for what Mrs. Voorhees did after taking Brenda's body and throwing it into the cabin's window, because Alice would've heard Mrs. Voorhees coming. Plus Mrs. Voorhees' can't just throw a body into the window then hop into a jeep which is far away and then get back to the cabin that fast.
There is a breif clip Jason swimming on his back in the water, you can see his body and his hockey mask, even though he didnt get the mask until Part 3

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Cast

Betsy Palmer .... Mrs. Pamela Voorhees
Adrienne King .... Alice Hardy
Harry Crosby .... Bill
Laurie Bartram .... Brenda
Jeannine Taylor .... Marcie Cunningham
Kevin Bacon .... Jack Burrell
Mark Nelson .... Ned Rubenstein
Robbi Morgan .... Annie
Peter Brouwer .... Steve Christy
Rex Everhart .... Enos the Truck Driver
Ronn Carroll .... Sergeant Tierney
Ron Millkie .... Officer Dorf
Walt Gorney .... Crazy Ralph
Willie Adams .... Barry
Debra S. Hayes .... Claudette

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Notes

The film's original working title was A Long Night at Camp Blood.
Betsy Palmer agreed to be in the film only as a means to pay for a new car, believing the film to be trash.
The film was shot at Camp NoBeBoSco in Blairstown, New Jersey.
The scene with the snake was not in the script and was an idea from Tom Savini after an experience in his own cabin during filming. The snake in the scene was real, including its onscreen death.
The character of Crazy Ralph who warns the would-be counselors not to visit Camp Crystal Lake inspired filmmaker Tony Urban to name his company Crazy Ralph Films.
There exists an uncut version of the film that is available outside the U.S. on DVD. This version is most notably available in Japan and in the UK (Warner owns the rights to the film in the latter).