Fresh
For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Friday the 13th
They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
1980 · 1h 35m · R
Horror
Directed by
Sean S. Cunningham
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sean S. Cunningham Director
- Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees
- Adrienne King as Alice
- Harry Crosby as Bill
- Laurie Bartram as Brenda
- Jeannine Taylor as Marcie Cunningham
- Kevin Bacon as Jack Burrell
- Robbi Morgan as Annie
- Mark Nelson as Ned Rubinstein
- Peter Brouwer as Steve Christy
- Rex Everhart as Enos, the Truck Driver
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.
Joseph Litsch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
It's blatant exploitation of the lowest order.
Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
A tame, poorly plotted serving of schlock, less horrific for its ketchup-smeared murders than for the bare-faced fashion in which it tries and fails to rip off Carpenter's Halloween in matters of style and construction.
Time Out
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