Get ready for chills and thrills with New Mexico Entertainment’s Movie Night celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Friday the 13th! 🪓✨  The plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to reopen an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past.  Prompted by the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in Variety in early 1979, while Victor Miller was still drafting the screenplay.  After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the fall of 1979.
The film has been subject to critical analysis in film studies for its depiction of youth suffering violent deaths after engaging in premarital sex, a trope at the center of the film’s plot that was frequently used in subsequent slasher films. It has received mixed retrospective reviews and garnered a cult following.