Story Line
Camp 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.
“They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.”
Top Cast
Adrienne King
Alice
Betsy Palmer
Mrs. Voorhees
Kevin Bacon
Jack
Jeannine Taylor
Marcie
Harry Crosby
Bill
Laurie Bartram
Brenda
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1980-05-09
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Horror
Part of the Series
Friday the 13th Collection
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User Reviews (5)
tmdb17996075
8/10
•2/20/2017Clearly, the team behind “Friday the 13th” expected at least to make a reasonable profit out of it, but I seriously doubt that anyone involved in the making of this film even considered the possibility of it becoming the cult classic that it is today...
inaneswine
4/10
•11/20/2017Some films benefit with time, maturing and holding a nostalgic charm. Others rot like a bad apple, like _Friday the 13th_. Perhaps I had to be alive in 1980 to actually appreciate this one, but it is really not as groundbreaking as some people like t...
Gimly
7/10
•9/13/2018Certainly not the first slasher movie, but arguably the most influential.
This original film stands alongside _Part V: A New Beginning_ as the only two movies in a 12 film long franchise where they play the killer as a mystery, I think that premis...
Wuchak
8/10
•7/10/2019***The beginning of the most successful slasher franchise***
Released in May, 1980, "Friday the 13th" was produced in the wake of the success of 1978's "Halloween" and also shares elements of "Carrie" (1976) and "A Bay of Blood" (1971). The story ...