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Friday the 13th (1980)

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Synopsis

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.

Cast

  • Betsy Palmer
  • Adrienne King
  • Jeannine Taylor
  • Robbi Morgan
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Harry Crosby
  • Laurie Bartram
  • Mark Nelson
  • Peter Brouwer
  • Rex Everhart

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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]

Metacritic review by Gene Siskel
Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune
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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.

Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
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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).

Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
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