"A very mysterious movie,It keeps you guessing right up to the climax!"
--- WEBMASTER
Plot:
This film starts off at a camp. Camp Crystal Lake. In 1958. A bunch of camp councilors are
around a camp fire singing. A boy and a girl sneak away to a barn to have sex, while they
are making out someone goes into the barn and up the stairs to where they are. The two
kids hear a noise and see a person. They start to explain and the boy gets cut in the stomach
and the girl tries to run away but she is killed off screen. (the credits roll)
(Friday, June 13th, present year) A teenage girl is walking through a town with camping
gear. She sees a dog and asks how far it is to Crystal Lake (joking around). She continues
walking. She goes into a restaurant and asks how far it is to the Camp. The people there tell
her that it is 20 miles.The people in the store make jokes about her going to “Camp Blood” and
one of the men tell her that he can bring her part way. We find out that her name is Annie.
They start walking to the mans truck when the town drunk tells Annie that she will never
come back. They get in the truck and drive away. The trucker talks about Steve Cristy, the
owner of the Camp. He tells her quit her job working at the camp. That two kids were
murdered, a boy drowned a year before that, fires, and bad water. He says that the place
is jinxed. The trucker has reached the point where he has to drop her off and she thanks
him and starts walking the rest of the way to the camp.
A truck is driving with three teenagers, Marcy, Ted, and Jack (Kevin Bacon). They talk about
their new jobs at Camp Crystal Lake. They soon arrive at the camp, where they meet Steve
Cristy. He is chopping some wood, Alice is introduced. They all are given jobs to help fix up
the camp before it has to open. Steve tries to get with Alice and she tells him that she might
have to leave for personal reasons. Alice goes to find Bill, another worker, who is painting
a fence by the lake. A little while later when all the camp councilors are together they talk
about how there is one councilor missing, that she never arrived. That is Annie. Steve
decides that he needs to go to town to get a few things and he leaves.
A little later a girl (Brenda) is carrying a bow-in-arrow target and setting it up when an
arrow almost hits her, one of the councilors has shot it at her as a joke.
Annie ends up getting picked up in a car. She tells the driver (which we never see) that she
is going to Camp Crystal Lake. She talks to the driver and the driver never speaks. They
pass the road for the camp and the car speeds up. The driver won’t stop the car even
after Annie has asked many times. Annie jumps out of the moving car and runs into the
woods. The driver stops the car and starts running after Annie. A few minutes later Annie
thinks that she is not being followed anymore. She trips and the driver gets to her and slits
her throat.
from a distance. A guy, Ned,fakes drowning, and it “saved” by one of the females. Later,
when they are back from swimming. Alice is getting dressed in her cabin, and sees a snake
and screams. Bill comes along with a machete and after all the other kids arrive Bill finally
kills the snake. A police officer shows up while Ned is running around pretending to be an
Indian.The police officer thinks that they have been using drugs. He tells them that he is there
to warn them that the town drunk, Ralph, was seen coming to the Camp. He then leaves.
Alice later finds Ralph in the kitchen closet. He warns them that they are doomed if they stay
at the camp, and then he leaves.
Night is falling on the camp. The lights aren't working so Brenda, Ned, and another kid all go
to turn on the emergency generator. Marcy and Jack go down by the lake. Ned watches
from a distance, and seems jealous. He sees someone go into a cabin near by and he
follows. Marcy and Jack start making out and it starts to rain, and storm out. To get out of
the rain they go to a cabin near by, which happens to be the same cabin that Ned went into.
They start kissing and making out on the bed. They undress and proceed to have sex, on
the bottom bunk of the bunk beds.
Alice, Brenda, and Bill are all in another cabin, playing strip monopoly. Jack and Marcy
continue to have sex. Lighting flashes and the camera shoots to the top bunk, where Ned’s
dead body with a slit throat is laying. Marcy leaves to go to the bathroom. Jack stays on the
bed, and blood starts dripping onto him. He looks up and a hand reaches up, holds his head
down, and a spear comes out from under the bed, through the mattress and through his
neck. Marcy is in the bathroom, and hears noises as if someone has just come in the
bathroom. She goes to investigate in the dark, and she gets killed by an ax in the head.
Back at the other cabin, the councilors are still playing, only this time they are all half naked.
Brenda decides that she is going to go to bed, and she gets up to leave.The scene then goes
to Steve Cristy at a diner and he gets up and leaves to go back to camp. Brenda has gone
into the bathroom where Marcy was killed. She hears a noise, and thinks nothing of it and
decides to finish what she is doing and leave.
Steve is on his way back to camp and his car breaks down in the thunderstorm. Lucky for
him a police officer that he knows is driving by and picks him to give him a ride back to camp.
Back at camp, the camera walks towards Brenda’s bedroom window. She lights a candle
and gets in bed to read. She hears a voice saying “help me”, the second time that she hears
the voice she gets up and goes outside in the rain. The voice leads her to the target practice
area. The field lights come on, which are blinding in the rain and dark. The camera looks
away from her and she screams. (off screen death).
Alice thought that she heard Brenda scream so she and Bill go looking in Brenda’s cabin.
There in her bed they find a bloody ax. They go to Jacks cabin, and to the bathroom, only to
find no one. They decide to call the police at the camp office, but it is locked and they have
to break in. Once inside, they find that the phone lines are dead. They go to try to start a truck
but it doesn't work and its too much of a long walk in the rain and in the dark, so they go back
inside the cabin. Steve and the officer are driving when the cop gets a call to go to another
place. He has to drop Steve off where they are. He walks back to camp. Someone flashes
a light at him and he gets killed by something sharp in the stomach. This person then goes
and shuts the electricity off.
Inside their cabin, Bill lights some candles and tells Alice to try to get some sleep while he
goes to fix the generator. Alice wakes up a while later. She starts making some tea and is
waiting for the water to boil. She decides to go look for Bill. She ends up finding his body
hanging from the back of a door, and she runs back to her cabin, where she locks up the
doors, closes the window curtains, and grabs a knife from the kitchen. Brenda’s body
comes flying through the kitchen window, she's all bloody and has rope tied all around her,
but she is dead. Alice sees a car pulling put and she runs outside thinking that its Steve.
Instead it’s a woman. She explains that her name is Mrs. Voorhees, a friend of Steve’s.
Alice tells her that everyone is dead and that she is the only one alive. Mrs. Voorhees wants
to take a look and they go back into the cabin. She looks at Brenda’s body. She then starts
telling Alice about a boy named Jason who drowned in Crystal Lake, she says that he was
her only son, that she was the boys mother. She says that he drowned because the
councilors were too busy having sex to watch him. She says that its Jason's birthday and
that she doesn't want the camp to reopen, there are a few flashbacks to a boy drowning.
Mrs. Voorhees says that Alice is responsible for Jason's death. She attacks Alice and they
fight. Alice runs and hides with Mrs. Voorhees close behind. She finds Alice and they fight
some more. Alice hits her hard and she goes down, and Alice runs away outside. She
goes back to her cabin and hides in the kitchen closet which is where Mrs. Voorhees finds
her, with a machete in hand, and Alice hits her with a pan. Alice leaves the cabin and goes
to the lake, where she sits beside a canoe. Mrs. Voorhees goes there with the machete
and they fight, and Mrs. Voorhees drops the machete and Alice picks it up and cuts Mrs.
Voorhees’ head off. Alice climbs into a boat and gets in the lake, where she falls asleep.
The next morning she wakes up and sees the police on shore. Just then a little boy jumps
out of the lake and grabs on to her, pulling her into the water. Alice wakes up in a hospital
room where they tell her that everyone is dead. She asks about the boy in the water and
they tell her that there was no boy, but she doesn't believe them. (The credits roll).
some cut scenes from the movie
Annie's death was a little bit longer. It showed more blood
come out of her throat after it was slit.
Jack's death was originally longer. There was an shot of Jack from a top view.
In this shot, the arrow in Jack's throat turns, causing blood much more blood
to shoot straight at the camera, and also in his mouth.
Marcie's death was a little longer . Originally, the axe
hits her in the face and she slides all of the way down to the floor.
Mrs. Voorhees death was actually longer. It took her a little longer to fall down
and blood a lot of blood was squriting out of her cut neck.
A scene showing Claudette's death was filmed, but then left out of the final cut.
Claudette was actually knifed in the neck.
Cast and Crew:
Directed by:
Sean Cunningham
Mrs. Voorhees...........................Betsy Palmer
Jason Voorhees............................Ari Lehman
Marcie....................................Jeannine Taylor
Annie........................................Robbi Morgan
Steve Christy.............................Peter Brouwer
Jack............................................Kevin Bacon
Truck Driver................................Rex Everhart
Sgt. Tierney..................................Ronn Carroll
Ralph...........................................Walt Gorney
Barry...........................................Willie Adams
Claudette..................................Debra S. Hayes
Trudy.........................................Dorothy Kobs
Sandy..................................Sally Anne Golden
Operator.......................................Mary Rocco
Doctor.......................................Ken L. Parker
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