Friday The 13th

Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham)

 

 

 

Budget

$550,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend

$5,816,321 (USA) (11 May 1980) (1 Screen)

Gross

$5,816,321 (USA) (11 May 1980)
$39,754,601 (USA)
AUD 2,202,000 (Australia)
$853,857 (Germany)
SEK 1,328,976 (Sweden)

Weekend Gross

$5,816,321 (USA) (11 May 1980) (1 Screen)








The Story


A 1958 prologue (it looks like 1978) shows two young summer-camp counselors about to have sex when a mystery assailant -- apparently someone they know -- slashes them to death. The camp, now known to locals as "Camp Blood," is closed for 20 years as a result, but is now re-opening, on a dark-and-stormy Friday the 13th. Another group of young, largely sex-minded counselors are gathering for orientation (it's a small mercy that despite the summer-camp setting, children are not present in most Jason movies). Sure enough, an unseen attacker again begins knifing them to death, one by one. Since these youths are prone to playing practical jokes on one another, or sneaking off for sex and drugs, they take little note of their cohorts' strange absences until nearly all of them are dead.


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