Friday the 13th (1980 film)

Friday the 13th is a 1980 slasher film directed by Sean S Cunningham starring Adrienne King in her first horror film and Betsy Palmer as the main villain, Pamela Voorhees. The film was made because of the success of Halloween. It now has eleven more movies succeeding it, a crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Plot
In 1958, two camp counselors run off to make out. A mysterious person kills the counselors. Now June 13th, 1979, 21 years after the death of the counselors a hired camp cook named Annie wanders around a town but hitches a ride with a man named Enos, who and Crazy Ralph, an elderly man warn her about the place she's going to. Suddenly being dropped off, she soon hitches a ride with an unseen person. The person driving fast scares Annie and she jumps out the vehicle, the person pursuing her. Annie is cornered in the woods and has her throat slashed. At Camp Crystal Lake, where Annie was headed, 6 counselors and counselor owner Steve Christy ready the camp for reopening. A thunderstorm suddenly approaches so Marcie and Jack, 2 of the six counselors, wander off to a separate cabin after Ned follows someone into another cabin. Marcie leaves to go use the bathroom and gets an ax slammed into her face and Jack gets an arrow pierced up his throat. Brenda hears someone and walks out to the archery range and the lights turn on. Steve returns but is killed. Alice and Bill look for their friends, finding an ax, discovering that the phones and Ned's car don't work. Bill wanders to the generator room and leaves Alice alone when the power goes out. Alice looks for Bill, noticing his dead body pinned with arrows on a door. Alice rushes to the main cabin but hears a vehicle approaching the cabin after Brenda's body is thrown in the cabin. A middle-aged woman named Mrs. Voorhees greets her. Alice asks where Mr Christy is but Pamela ignores her. The two go inside the main cabin and Mrs Voorhees tells Alice about the drowning of her son, Jason in 1957, and blames it on the counselors who were making love. Revealing to be the mysterious figure, Mrs Voorhees takes her knife out and tries to kill Alice but is knocked unconscious with a fire poker. Alice runs out to the dock, where her and Mrs Voorhees fight each other. Alice grabs the machete Mrs Voorhees had and ends Mrs Voorhees's killing spree, beheading her. Tired of the events, sole survivor Alice boards a canoe and falls asleep. A drowned Jason emerges from the water and grabs Alice. Just a dream, Alice awakens in a hospital where a police officer stands by her bed. Alice mentions Jason and the police officer says that no boy was at the lake, implying that Jason's still there.

Cast

 * Adrienne King as Alice


 * Harry Crosby as Bill
 * Jeannine Taylor as Marcie
 * Laurie Bartram as Brenda
 * Kevin Bacon as Jack
 * Mark Nelson as Ned
 * Robbi Morgan as Annie
 * Peter Brouwer as Steve Christy
 * Rex Everhart as The Truck Driver
 * Ronn Carroll as Sgt. Tierney
 * Walt Gorney as Crazy Ralph
 * Willie Adams as Barry
 * Debra S. Hayes as Claudette
 * Sally Anne Golden as Sandy
 * Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees
 * Ari Lehman as Jason

Notes and Trivia

 * This is Adrienne King's and Kevin Bacon's horror film debuts


 * The sequel takes place 4 years later from this film