Friday the 13th(Movie, 1980)

Name: Friday the 13th
Genre: Horror
Released: 1980
Duration: T01:35:00
Rating: 3.2

| 1h 35min | Genre: Horror

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 1,224 votes)

Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to reopen an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past. Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in Variety in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Friday the 13th

nominated for: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture nominated for: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress

About Friday the 13th

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.

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Trailer for Friday the 13th + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Official Trailer(Trailer, 2:46)

Official Trailer (Trailer) | Friday the 13th (1980) ORIGINAL Trailer [HD 1080p] (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer) | "Another Chance" Clip (Clip) | Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New Jersey

Plays in: New Jersey

Derivative works/Adaptions: "Friday the 13th" (movie, 2009)

Made by: Paramount Pictures, Georgetown Productions Inc., Sean S. Cunningham Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 27 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/09/1980

Appearing Characters: Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees

Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Rex Everhart, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Ari Lehman, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan

Director: Sean S. Cunningham

Producer: Sean S. Cunningham

Screenwriter: Victor Miller

Composer: Harry Manfredini

Performer: Harry Manfredini

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Martes 13"

"Martes 13 Parte 1"

"Vrijdag de 13de"

"黑色星期五"

"Freitag der 13."

"Perjantai 13. päivä"

"Jûsan-nichi no kin'yôbi"

"Vrijdag de 13e"

"Fredag den 13."

"Пятница тринадцатое"

"П’ятниця 13-е"

"A Long Night at Camp Blood"

"Friday the 13th Part I"

Keywords: series of murders, murder, drowning, teenager, villain, serial killer, slasher, lake, revenge, summer camp, cabin, woods, camp, 1950s, new jersey, stalking, summer, sadism

Budget: 550,000 USD

Revenue: 59,754,601 USD (= 10,864%)