User:Bignole/Friday the 13th (films)

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Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent horror film directed by Sean S. Cunningham, and written by Victor Miller. The film stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby and Kevin Bacon in one of his earliest roles. The film concerns a group of teenagers who re-open an abandoned camp site years after a young boy drowned in a lake located nearby. One by one, the teens fall victim to a mysterious killer.

Friday the 13th, inspired by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween,^[5] was made on an estimated budget of $550,000.^[1] Although it was poorly received by film critics, it grossed over $39.7 million at the box office in the United States,^[6] and went on to become one of the most profitable slasher films in cinema history; it was also the first movie of its kind to secure distribution in the USA by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.^[7] The film's box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with Freddy Krueger and a remake currently in development.