Jun 13 2008
Friday The 13th, Squared
On Friday the 13th, there’s no other 80s film to blog about besides Friday The 13th, no? This film, which came out in 1980 and launched a bazillion iterations, has a relatively simple plot.
The back story, shown in a short prologue, is set in 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, when two teen counselors sneak away from a camp fire sing along to have sex, but they end up murdered.
The film then forwards to present day (1980), when Annie (Robbi Morgan) enters a local diner and asks for directions to Camp Crystal Lake, which has apparently reopened and thus sets the townies atwitter. Ralph (Walt Gorney), an old local who remembers the old days at camp, warns Annie that they are “all doomed”. Then Annie gets a ride to camp from Enos (Rex Everhart), and along the way he tells the tale of a young boy who drowned in Crystal Lake in 1957, one year before the double murders occurred.
Annie is understandably freaked, so she gets out and hitches another ride and never makes it to camp, as that driver is the killer.
At camp, counselors Ned (Mark Nelson), Jack (Kevin Bacon–yes, THAT Kevin Bacon!), Bill (Harry Crosby), Marcie (Jeannine Taylor), Alice (Adrienne King), and Brenda (Laurie Bartram) are busy preparing to open camp with the help of camp owner, Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer).
People start getting picked off, and then Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) shows herself (she being the mother of the boy, Jason, who drowned in the lake in 1957).
This film sets the stage for nine sequels of sorts, not counting Freddy Vs. Jason, which is a melding of A Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th.
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