What unfolds is a violent night and a chilling film, one that still manages to unsettle us with its isolated setting and growing tension-aided by plenty of long shots that let us know these kids are being watched. But just where has Ned run off to? Didn't he see someone lurking in the dark doorway of a cabin, the same one Marcie and Jack soon seek refuge in? While the counselors have two weeks to get the camp ready, it looks like they won't make it past Friday. After a day of work and play, the six teenagers start to unwind as night (and a powerful thunderstorm) approaches. But when Annie never shows up (we see her nasty fate) and a cop comes looking for Crazy Ralph (who soon puts a scare into the staff), the viewer starts to make a list of suspects. Steve soon heads into town to run some errands, leaving his young workers in charge. Waiting for her are Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer) and his six counselors: young couple Marcie (Jeannine Taylor) and Jack (Kevin Bacon, the real sole survivor of the franchise) jokester Ned (Mark Nelson) mild-mannered vegetarian Brenda (Laurie Bartram, who sadly passed away in 2007) laid-back guitar strummer Bill (Harry Crosby, son of Bing) and Alice (Adrienne King), who we soon learn has a fling with her boss. Unfazed by the legend, Annie hitches a ride to the crossroads by the cemetery, where she then makes her way on foot. "It's got a death curse!" warns Crazy Ralph, the town's prophet of doom.
The site is being re-opened, much to the dismay of the locals who have coined it "Camp Blood" and would love to forget its troubled past: In addition to the murders, the camp has been plagued by fires, a tampered water supply and the drowning death of a young boy. Fast forward 20-plus years to Friday, June 13, when young Annie (Robbi Morgan) is making her way to the New Jersey camp grounds. We begin at Camp Crystal Lake in 1958, when the brutal murder of two camp counselors closes the troubled facility's doors. While not entirely original, Friday the 13th was unquestionably influential.
And while his film owed a lot to Halloween, it was the one that single-handedly started a bloody revolution-one that exploded in the early '80s and never looked back.
In 1979, fresh off the success of Halloween-and many years after Twitch of the Death Nerve (aka Bay of Blood, 1971), Last House on the Left (1972), Black Christmas (1974) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) made their mark-filmmaker Sean S. It's hard to believe there was a time when the slasher genre-along with the concept of sequels and franchise horror-wasn't even on Hollywood's radar.
FRIDAY THE 13TH FILM RATING FULL VERSION
Now, North American audiences can finally see the full version of the film-which is great for franchise fans but probably no big deal to the rest of you (the footage is roughly 11 seconds-so the cuts aren't anywhere near My Bloody Valentine or Friday the 13th Part VII proportions).Īlso included are a few new (and some not-so-new) bonus features-but not the same ones from the box set-and a new transfer and a 5.1 soundtrack. So even though this print has existed on an official studio release for nearly seven years, Paramount failed to put it on the 2004 box set, which only showed the excised footage as a bonus feature. Until now, the only way to see the film in its full uncut version was through Warner's international release (in Regions 2 and 3) of the film (Paramount did not have rights overseas). In that version of the original, the final kill was restored to its theatrical cut-but Annie's death was, too. In 2004, the studio released the first eight films in the "From Crystal Lake to Manhattan" box set. Paramount released its first DVD in 1999, with two odd differences: the death of Annie was uncut, but the final machete death was even shorter than the trimmed theatrical version. When it hit theaters in May of 1980, Friday the 13th was trimmed of a few snippets of gore to ensure an R rating. With the upcoming reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise, Paramount has gone to the vault once again for yet another DVD release of its surprise smash (along with Part 2 and Part 3). "I always remember the New York Times describing the young counselors as 'nubile'.I think that's the only good word they had to say about us."
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