Friday the 13th (1980 film)

Friday the 13th
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Directed by	Sean S. Cunningham
Produced by	Sean S. Cunningham
Written by	Victor Miller
Starring	Betsy Palmer Adrienne King Harry Crosby Laurie Bartram Mark Nelson Jeannine Taylor Robbi Morgan Kevin Bacon
Music by	Harry Manfredini
Cinematography	Barry Abrams
Edited by	Bill Freda
Production company	Georgetown Productions Sean S. Cunningham Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (US) Warner Bros. (International)
Release date	May 9, 1980 (1980-05-09)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$550,000
Box office	$59.8 million

Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film tells the story of a group of teenagers who are murdered one by one by a unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned campground, and stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson and Robbi Morgan.

Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, the film was made on an estimated budget of $550,000 and released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and by Warner Bros. in Europe. When originally released, the film received negative reviews from film critics, while managing to gross over $39.7 million at the box office in the United States. In the years that followed, retrospective reviews for the film have been more positive, and it has become a cult classic.

Aside from being the first movie of its kind to secure distribution in the US by a major studio (Paramount Pictures), the film's box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, and a 2009 series reboot.

In the summer of 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, two camp counselors named Barry and Claudette sneak away from a campfire and into a storage barn. Before they are able to have sex, an unseen assailant enters the barn and murders them both.