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- Martes 13
- Vrijdag de 13de
- Jûsan-nichi no kin'yôbi
- Vrijdag de 13e
- Perjantai 13. päivä
- 黑色星期五
- П’ятниця 13-е
- Пятница тринадцатое
- Fredag den 13.
- Vendredi 13
- Petak 13.
- Sexta-Feira 13
- Петък 13-ти
- Viernes 13
- Pátek třináctého
- Perjantai 13.
- Paraskevi kai 13
- Παρασκευή και 13
- Péntek 13
- फ़्राइडे द थर्टीन्थ
- शुक्रवार १३
- Yom Shisi Ha-Shlosh-Esre
- Venerdì 13
- 13日の金曜日
- Penktadienis 13
- Penktadienis, 13-oji diena
- Piątek trzynastego
- Vineri 13
- Пятница 13-е
- Petak 13-ti
- Piatok trinásteho
- Petek trinajsti
- 13일의 금요일
- Пятница 13
- Viernes, 13
- Divendres 13
- Fredagen den 13:e
- 13號星期五
- 13. Cuma
- يوم الجمعة الـ13
- Petak trinaesti
- Fredag den 13de
- Friday the Thirteen
- A Long Night at Camp Blood
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Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham.
Copied Halloween without any of the craft, added Savini, and proved the formula worked anyway.
goreledger editorial rating: 5/10 · Read the review
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Sean Cunningham placed an advertisement for the title in Variety before there was a script, to find out whether anybody wanted it. Enough people did.
What it adds to Carpenter's template is gore. Tom Savini took the job because it was work and delivered the arrow through Kevin Bacon's throat, which was achieved with an appliance neck, a tube and Bacon lying under a false bed with his head through a hole while somebody pumped blood.
The reveal is a genuine surprise on a first viewing and has been spoiled for everyone since by four decades of parody. Jason is not in it in any meaningful sense; he appears in the last shot and only becomes the killer in the sequel.
Sequels aside, this is a competently made, cynical, extremely effective piece of product, and its success is the reason the next five years produced a slasher for every holiday on the calendar.
Goreledger editorial rating
5 / 10
Competent, cynical product that copied Halloween without its craft and added Savini's effects. The reveal worked once and has been parodied for forty years. Important for what it started rather than for how it plays.
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Describes the film, not its quality: high gore means very gory.
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- Tom Savini
The combat photographer who came home from Vietnam and spent thirty years putting what he saw on screen.
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