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      • 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.
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  2. Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who was thought to have drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff.

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    The original Friday the 13th was made out of necessity. Director Sean S. Cunningham was desperate to break into the movie business, and after seeing the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, he and writer Victor Miller decided to make the jump into horror. Cunningham's movie, like many of those that followed Halloween, traded the quality of their ...

    The franchise's main weapon is no secret. People do not keep coming back to these movies for some sort of engaging drama that suckers you back in as the calling card for each entry. As much as we love these guys, no one is emotionally attached to Crazy Ralph or Tommy Jarvis! The thing people keep raking out cash for is Jason Voorhees. To this day, ...

    Aside from the series' trademark slasher icon, there are a couple of fun actors to spot in these films. Kevin Bacon basically plays Kevin Bacon in the original film, something that can benefit almost any movie, with his character going out in one of the series' best kill scenes. In Part IV: The Final Chapter (the best entry), Corey Feldman delivers...

    Speaking of fun, let's not act like this series isn't really just a bunch of hangout movies Trojan-horsed into a slasher series. These are (mostly) literally camp movies, making them not only great fall horror movies but fantastic for a summer horror marathon! Sometimes, these movies really try to have a plot that makes you care (see the studio cir...

    Speaking of atmosphere, this series delivers it by the bucket full. Where 1978's Halloween has the best atmosphere of any film in this subgenre, after its third entry, Season of the Witch, that element takes a pretty huge nosedive. Same goes for Nightmare, a series that starts with a strong tone and quickly becomes a pale imitation of itself. That'...

    More than anything, the consistently fantastic music that Harry Manfredini provided to the series is the second most reliable thing that the films have going for them after Jason. His music comes second only to the original Halloween soundtrack in terms of slasher scores. Sure, it isn't as good and doesn't quite have the same iconography, yet his p...

  3. Jan 30, 2023 · Friday the 13th was a forefather in the slasher genre, but it never managed to nail many of its outings. While villains like Freddy grew and evolved with each sequel, Friday the 13th seemed to rely on building a body count as Jason's story shifted and evolved in many unexpected ways.

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  4. Nov 2, 2021 · If there is one film that most definitively represents ’80s horror movies (or ‘80s slasher movies, especially), it would have to be Friday the 13th - the smash hit about a group of young ...

  5. Sep 10, 2019 · It also established many of the current slasher movie tropes that continue to persist — sex, drug use, and death are almost always linked in Friday the 13th. The frazzled old man with a warning...

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  6. 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.

  7. Jun 3, 2015 · With only a pair of kids’ movies under his belt, director Sean Cunningham took notice and decided to bring his idea for a horror film called Friday the 13th to the big screen. After all, he...