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Friday the 13th
They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
( Horror / Mystery / Thriller )


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MPAA Rating:
R

US Runtime: 90 min

Premiere Date:
May 10, 1980   [USA]
 
Director: Sean S Cunningham
 
Writers: Victor Miller
Sean S Cunningham
 
Music by Harry Manfredini
 
Cinematography: Barry Abrams
 
Edited by: Bill Freda
 
Production Companys: Georgetown Productions Inc.
Paramount Pictures
Sean S. Cunningham Films
 


Special Effects:

Gajdecki Visual Effects (GVFX)
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$700,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color
Laboratory:
DeLuxe
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical

Quotes:

  • Bill: If this is a joke, I'm gonna brain em'.
     
  • Pamela Voorhees: You know a boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counsellors weren't paying any attention...They were making love while that poor boy drowned. His name was Jason.
     
  • Alice: The boy... is he dead, too?
    Tierney: Who?
    Alice: The boy. Jason.
    Tierney: Jason?
    Alice: In the lake, the one... the one who attacked me... the one who pulled me underneath the water.
    Tierney: Ma'am, we didn't find any boy.
    Alice: But... then he's still out there.
     
  • Pamela Voorhees: Jason was my son and today is his birthday...
     
  • Bill: You think you're gonna last all summer?
    Alice: I'm not sure I'll last all week.
     

Trivia:

  • Sean S. Cunningham has been quoted as saying that the type of actors that he sought for the film were "good-looking kids who you might see in a Pepsi commercial"
     
  • Makeup designer Tom Savini thought up the idea of Jason's surprise appearance at the end of the movie.
     
  • The fake ending scene in which Alice is attacked by Jason, was shot three times. Once in September, then October and finally in November; when the temperature was 28 degrees outside.
     
  • Cameo of Tom Savini. as the body being thrown through a window.
     
  • In the scene where Bill is found impaled to a door with arrows, his eye twitches continually because the eye effect that Savini applied was actually burning his eye and causing him excruciating pain.
     


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