Friday the 13th Movies

Date: June 13, 2008, Friday

Friday the 13th, directed by Sean S. Cunningham, became one of the most popular slasher films in history and spawned a long series of sequels.

In the first movie, a group of teenagers return to a summer camp to prepare it for reopening. Many years earlier, a young boy called Jason drowned at a summer camp, and shortly thereafter, the two counselors responsible were murdered by an unknown assailant, after which the camp was closed. One by one, the new counsellors are brutally murdered, it transpires, by Jason's mother, Pamela.

In the second film, it's revealed that Jason had been living as a hermit in the woods next to the camp since he supposedly drowned. To avenge his mother, he hacks and slashes through numerous other victims at the camp. He continues to do so in eight of the nine further sequels. The exception is the fifth film in the series, where the serial killer is merely a copycat of Jason, rather than the man himself.