Friday the 13th is a not-so-critically acclaimed classic horror film that takes place at a lakeside camping ground. The scene opens with an establishing shot of the main house with the camp-goers signing songs in front of a fireplace. The scene then cuts to a POV of the killer as they sneak through the bedrooms with people sleeping. As the camera cuts back to the group of singing campers it shows that two of them sneak off to "mess around" in an isolated area. The murder sneaks up and kills both of them, as the screen freezes on the girl's face as she is being murdered and cuts to black revealing the title card. This opening scene sets the events of the rest of the movie, as the campers try to figure out what happened, who is the murder, and why they are killing them.
This movie makes great use of establishing shots, POV, source music, and ambient sound. The opening shot is of the cabins from Lake Crystal with the text reading, "Camp Crystal Lake - 1958." This gives the audience a time frame and a location for the rest of the films events. The scene is split between two points of view; an omniscient camera when seeing the campers and a first-person perspective from the murder. When the campers are gathered in a lakehouse the camera is not an object that they are able to interact with, but when the camera switches to being the eyes of the murder it is interacted with as the girl throws a box at the killer. This gives the audience a great show of the murders that happen to set the rest of the events of the movie in motion. The camper's singing is a great example of source music within a movie as it is being played by the characters themselves. The music they are playing contrasts the fills mood as they are happy and relaxed before they realize they are being picked off one by one from the murder.
The opening credits for this movie come after the murder of the first two campers as the screen fades black to reveal the title card as glass shatters. The movie's soundtrack picks up as well as the iconic sounds of Jason. The credits show the producers, directors, screenplay writers, companies involved with the producing, but it does not include the actors/actresses.
Budget: $700 thousand ($1.6 million today)
Box Office: $59.8 million ($142.7 million today)
Awards: None
Nominations: Saturn Award: Best DVD/Blu-Ray Collection (2014), Mystfest: Best Film (1980), Razzie Awards: Worst Picture (1981), Razzie Awards: Worst Supporting Actress - Betsy Palmer (1981), Golden Satellite Award: Best DVD Extra (2005).
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