Saturday the 14th | |
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Directed by | Howard R. Cohen |
Screenplay by | Howard R. Cohen |
Story by | Jeff Begun |
Produced by | Julie Corman |
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Cinematography | Daniel Lacambre |
Edited by | Kent Beyda Joanne D'Antonio |
Music by | Parmer Fuller |
Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $4 million[2] or $2.2 million[3] |
Saturday the 14th is a 1981 American comedy horror film starring real-life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, co-written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman.
Despite the implications of the film's title, it is a spoof of classic horror movies from the 1930s and 1940s, and not a parody of the Friday the 13th series or of slasher films of that type from the 1980s.[4][5] It was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988.
In the film, the Hyatt family inherits the house of a deceased uncle and a magical book. The family's son reads the book and unwittingly unleashes monsters from its pages. The family has interactions with the vampire Waldemar and the would-be world-conqueror Van Helsing, who each want to acquire the book.
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