Friday the 13th
They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
- Director
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $40M
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Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Friday the 13th returned 72.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $550,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $40M
- Release date
- May 9, 1980
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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