Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Kevin Bacon, Irwin Keyes, Tom Savini, Rex Everhart, Peter Brouwer, Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson, Robbi Morgan, Walt Gorney, Willie Adams, Debra S. Hayes, Ari Lehman, Ronn Carroll, Ron Millkie, Dorothy Kobs, Sally Anne Golden, Mary Rocco, Ken L. Parker, Noel Cunningham
Trailer
Reviews
50
Friday the 13th is neither tense nor frightening (although, to be fair, it is at times creepy and atmospheric, due in part to budgetary limitations that led to a low-key style).
50
Slant Magazine
It's a formula with no pretensions.
40
As the bodies pile up amongst this testy crowd of horny teens, there remains a vacant hole were someone scary should be. In a strange way, this film stands unique amongst all slasher films as one where the killer is nearly intangible.
20
Lowbudget in the worst sense – with no apparent talent or intelligence to offset its technical inadequacies – Friday the 13th has nothing to exploit but its title.
0
Chicago Tribune
A disgusting, artless shocker...A cruel film that offers teen-age girls in peril, as well as a gruesome beheading. Only for sickies. [11 July 1980, p.8]
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