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Post by bruce on Mar 31, 2011 13:10:32 GMT -5
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby and Kevin Bacon in one of his earliest roles. Friday the 13th was made on an estimated budget of $550,000. Released by Paramount Pictures in the United States, and Warner Bros. Internationally, the film received mixed reviews from film critics, but grossed over $39.7 million at the box office in the United States, and went on to become one of the most profitable slasher films in cinema history (looking at it from a proper and traditional notion of a Slasher, it grossed more then any other Slasher film). It was also the first movie of its kind to secure distribution in the USA by a major studio, Paramount Pictures. The film's box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with Freddy Krueger.
The film concerns a group of teenagers who re-open an abandoned camp site years after a young boy drowned in a nearby lake. One by one, the teens fall victim to a mysterious killer.
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Post by tord on Apr 4, 2011 3:30:28 GMT -5
What a fucking classic, this movie is great and underrated for what? Pamela Voorhees being the killer. Everyone liked Part 2 better, but I agree it's much more scarier in atmosphere and tone. But this movie should gain more respect for what it is and what it started. Victor Miller is an awesome writer with or without a full script. Sean Cunningham is one of my favourite director with one of his most popular film, "House"
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Post by bruce on Apr 4, 2011 12:37:51 GMT -5
Definitely needs more respect, personally I think this film is the true inspiration for the slasher genre, rather then Halloween, I say this because when you think of the term Slasher film, the thing that immediately comes to mind ins graphic horror and gore, of which Halloween had none.
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Post by FireStar on Apr 6, 2011 22:08:32 GMT -5
Yeah Halloween got the ball rolling on the slasher genre but it was Friday the 13th that picked it up and ran with it. It ended up giving us more of what became the required elements of a slasher than Halloween.
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