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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.
18 November 1945, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
8 May 1954, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
31 August 1935
16 May 1958, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
13 June 1920, Watseka, Illinois, USA
19 July 1961
31 July 1910
16 March 1952, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1965, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 November 1926, East Chicago, Indiana, USA
8 July 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 August 1958, Hollywood, California, USA
2 June 1954, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
12 September 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
3 November 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
12 April 1912, Vienna, Austria
21 July 1955, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
August 21, 2009
Has there ever been a more unimaginative exercise in big-screen terror?February 13, 2009
How do you sum up a movie that's really quite awful yet helped define a filmmaking era?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 artistryOctober 19, 2010
It hasn't aged well; its nonstyle renders it pretty sedate these days.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.March 07, 2005
The whole film is one of the best arguments for resuming movie censorship to come along in years.September 06, 2009
Within the dead-teenie realm it achieves a certain classicismNovember 02, 2014
It's blatant exploitation of the lowest order.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.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.September 26, 2007
For all its shoddiness, the film manages, just barely, to achieve its ignoble goals -- it delivers what it promises.