Not suitable for audiences under 16! Friday the 13th is a 1980 American horror film directed by Sean S. Cunningham. It is the first installment in the Friday the 13th saga.

The film begins on Friday, July 13, 1957. A young boy named Jason Voorhees drowns at Camp Crystal Lake. The following year, two counselors are also killed.

Following these events, the camp remains abandoned. In 1979, Steve Christy decides to reopen it on Friday, June 13, the anniversary of the deaths that occurred twenty-one years earlier.