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Friday the 13th
(1980)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1980
Running Times: 90m 44s (UK - video)/91m/94m 45s (UK
- theatrical)
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 1.37:1 (negative ratio)/1.85:1
(intended ratio)
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Sean
S. Cunningham
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Georgetown Productions Inc / Paramount Pictures
/ Sean S. Cunningham Films
Executive Producer: Alvin Geiler
Producer: Sean
S. Cunningham
Associate Producer: Stephen
Miner
Unit Production Manager: Stephen
Miner
SCRIPT
Script: Victor Miller
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Cindy Veazey
2nd Assistant Director: Stephen Ross
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Barry Abrams
Camera Operator: Braden Lutz
2nd Unit Camera: Peter Stein
1st Assistant Cameraman: John Verardi
2nd Assistant Cameramen: Richard Berger, Robert Brady
2nd Unit Assistant Cameraman: Mike Hirsch
2nd Electric: Philip Beard
2nd Unit Electric: William Klayer
Gaffer: Tad Page
2nd Unit Gaffer: Larry Reibman
Best Boy: Jim Bekaris
Key Grip: Bob Shulman
Grip: Carl Peterson
Stills: Richard Feury
Panaflex Camera and Lenses: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Bill Freda
Associate Editor: Susan E. Cunningham
Assistant Editor: Jay Keuper
MUSIC
Music: Harry Manfredini
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Richard Murphy
Boom: David Platt
Sound Re-Recordist: Lee Dichter
Sound Effects: Ross Gaffney Inc
Atmospheric Effects: Steve Kirshoff
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make-up: Katherine Vickers
Hair: Six Feet Under, Westport, Connecticut
Betsy Palmer's Hair: Katherine Vickers
Wardrobe Designer: Caron Coplain
Wardrobe Mistress: Jan Shoebridge
Wardrobe Assistant: Anne King
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Tom
Savini
Special Make Up Effects Assistant: Taso Stavrakis
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Titles by: Ted Lowry
Opticals: The Optical
House
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Script Supervisor: Martin Kitrosser
Art Director: Virginia Field
Property Mistress: Alice Maguire
Assistant Properties: Chris Gardyasz
MISCELLANEOUS
Location Auditor: Michael Calvello
Production Office Co-Ordinator: Denise Pinckley
Production Assistants: Willie Adams, Michael Barry, Michael Hall, Cindie
M. Verardi
Assistant to Art Director: Danny Mahon
Transportation Captain: Rucy Churney
LOCATIONS
Locations: Blairstown, New Jersey, USA; Camp NoBeBoSco, New Jersey,
USA; Freehold, New Jersey, USA; Hope, New Jersey, USA; Ontario, Canada
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks to: Blairstown Fire Department, Blairstown, NJ, Richard
Skow, Chief Blairstown Police Department Norman Bedell, Chief
STUNTS
Stunts: Tom Savini
CASTING
Casting: TNI Casting, Julie Hughes, Barry Moss
CAST
Betsy Palmer (Mrs 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 (truck driver)
Ronn Carroll (Sergeant Tierney)
Ron Millkie (Officer Dorf)
Walt Gorney (Crazy Ralph)
Willie Adams (Barry)
Debra S. Hayes (Claudette)
Dorothy Kobs (Trudy)
Sally Anne Golden (Sandy)
Mary Rocco (operator)
Ken L. Parker (doctor)
Ari Lehman (Jason Voorhees)
UNCREDITED CAST
Irwin Keyes (busboy in cafe)
PLOT SUMMARY
A group of teenagers are getting ready to re-open Camp Crystal Lake,
a summer camp closed down a few years before when a child was drowned
in the lake. Almost immediately, the teens are being picked off in increasingly
nasty ways by an unseen killer until only one, Alice is left to face
up to the murderer alone.
AVAILABILITY
Australia
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Brothers Home Video
Video Distributor: Warner Home Video
Sweden
Video Distributor: Paramount; Warner Brothers
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Warner Home Video (UK) Limited
Video Distributor: Warner / Terror Vision (S011172)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Paramount (LV 1395)
DVD Distributor: Paramount (013957)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
Denmark
Bill's death has been removed completely for the video version. He later
re-appears in a scene at the end of the film visiting Alice in hospital,
an out-take that was originally shot for an alternate, happier ending.
Finland
Rating: banned
France
Rating: -16
Norway
Rating: 16 (with substantial cuts)
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X (1980); 18
Cinema prints censored; initial video prints were the same version as
the cut US R version, but a later video release was uncut
USA
Rating: R
The MPAA demanded several cuts before awarding the R rating, trimming
back most of teh violence set-pieces.
West Germany
Rating: 18 (prints seized by authorities; video banned)
AWARDS
1980
Mystfest
Best Film (Sean S. Cunningham) - nominated
Razzie Awards
Worst Picture (Sean S. Cunningham) - nominated
Worst Supporting Actress (Betsy Palmer) - nominated
TIMELINE
1980
May
8: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
June
13: USA - theatrical release
November
10: Sweden - theatrical release
1981
February
11: France - theatrical release
May
29: Norway - theatrical release
1987
February
23: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1995
July
17: UK - video release (Warner / Terror Vision (S011172))
1999
October
19: USA - DVD release (Paramount (013957))
POSTER TAGS
Fridays will never be the same again.
A 24 hour nightmare of terror.
They were warned... They are doomed... And on Friday the
13th, nothing will save them.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
A Long Night at Camp Blood - working
title
LINKS
REMAKE
Friday the 13th (2009)
SEQUELS
Friday the 13th Part 2
(1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3 3D
(1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final
Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
(1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI:
Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII:
The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII:
Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Goes to Hell:
The Final Friday (1993)
Jason X (2001)
SEE ALSO
Alone in the Dark
(1982)
Black Christmas
(1974)
The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
Camping del terrore (1986)
Ecologia del delitto
(1971)
The Final Terror (1983)
Halloween (1978)
Madman (1981)
Saturday the 14th (1981)
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back (1988)
Scary Movie (2000)
Scream 2 (1997)
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000)
Student Bodies (1981)
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
The Town That
Dreaded Sundown (1976)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of Horror (1996)
Scream Greats Vol. 1 Tom Savini Master of Horror Make-up (1986)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Cinefantastique vol.10 no.2 (Autumn 1980)
p.42 (USA)
review
Cinefantastique vol.20 no.1/2 (November
1989) pp.92, 124 (USA)
illustrated article
Fangoria no.190 (March 2000) p.75 (USA)
DVD review
Halls of Horror no.27 p.22 (UK)
note
Hollywood Reporter vol.261 no.35 (9 May
1980) p.3 (USA)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.47 no.558 (July
1980) p.132 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Movietone News no.66-67 (13 March 1981)
pp.40-41 (USA)
review
Positif no.343 (September 1989) pp.50-53
(France)
illustrated article
Scapegoat no.1 p.11 (UK)
censorship details
Screen International no.246 (21 June
1980) p.19 (UK)
review
Variety 10 October 1979 p.30 (USA)
note
Variety 14 May 1980 p.14 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Film Review 1981-1982
credits, review
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.144 (Netherlands)
credits, review
KEYWORDS
slashers; summer camps; serial killers; teenagers; snakes; canoes;
lakes; arrows; axe murders; decapitation; twist endings; knives; teenkill;
stalk and slash; children; revenge; insanity; guitars; sex; machetes
Last Updated:
2 February, 2010
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