"Blatant exploitation of the lowest order"

For those steeped in the lore of what Friday the 13th would become, watching the first movie can be a little surprising. Many of the long-running series' staples are either absent or toned down from where they would evolve. The gore is surprisingly...

The film that kicked off the franchise sees swimsuit-clad young adults picked off one by one in gruesome fashion at the site of an unsolved double murder

An unoriginal but influential horror film, which brought gore into the mainstream and helped build the teen-slasher genre.

You really have to wonder what exactly made the Friday the 13th series so wildly successful.

R • 1 hour 35 min • 1980