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Friday The 13th
A group of teenagers is stalked and murdere by an unknown assailant one by one while attempting to re-open an abandoned campground where a young boy drowned in a lake nearby.
13 June 1920, Watseka, Illinois, USA
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 May 1965, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 May 1954, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
31 July 1910
16 May 1958, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 August 1935
21 July 1955, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
3 November 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 November 1945, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
12 September 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 April 1912, Vienna, Austria
8 August 1958, Hollywood, California, USA
2 June 1954, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1 November 1926, East Chicago, Indiana, USA
September 06, 2009
Within the dead-teenie realm it achieves a certain classicism
March 05, 2009
What makes the movie work is that the slasher genre hadn't been set in stone yet, and some choices that director Sean S. Cunningham makes in the film that work against type.
October 15, 2012
It depicts what is surely the first recorded instance of the game "Strip Monopoly" and would later inspire Wet Hot American Summer, and we should all be grateful for that.
February 13, 2009
How do you sum up a movie that's really quite awful yet helped define a filmmaking era?
October 19, 2010
It hasn't aged well; its nonstyle renders it pretty sedate these days.
February 14, 2009
a campfire boogeyman story designed to do little more than build tension and deliver a few well-timed shocks, which it does with precision and even a bit of artistry
September 26, 2007
For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.
August 21, 2009
Has there ever been a more unimaginative exercise in big-screen terror?
December 15, 2010
Beware of this infamous, sadistic slasher film.
January 26, 2006
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.
November 02, 2014
It's blatant exploitation of the lowest order.
March 07, 2005
The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.