Quotes
 Alice: The boy... is he dead, too?
Tierney: Who?
Alice: The boy. Jason.
Tierney: Jason?
Alice: In the lake, the one... the one who attacked me... the one who pulled me underneath the water.
Tierney: Ma`am, we didn`t find any boy.
Alice: But... then he`s still out there. Pamela Voorhees: Why I`m... I`m Mrs. Voorhees, an old friend of the Christy`s.
Bill: If this is a joke, I`m gonna brain `em!
Brenda: Just wait until he lands on my old Kentucky home.
Bill: More beer? More beer.
Crazy Ralph: Doomed! You`re all doomed!
Pamela Voorhees: You see, Jason was my son, and today is his birthday...
[while playing strip Monopoly]
Alice: Baltic Avenue.
Bill: No one ever lands on Baltic Avenue.
Alice: I think it`s a pretty color. I`ll buy it.
[Bill rolls and lands on Baltic Avenue]
Alice: Ha. Baltic Avenue. You owe me one boot.
Brenda: Alice draws first blood.
Bill: That`s a terrible way to talk about my feet.
Enos, the truck driver: All the girls up there gonna look as good as you?
Annie: I don`t know.
Crazy Ralph: You`re going to Camp Blood, ain`t ya?
Enos, the truck driver: Goddammit, Ralph, get outta here! Go on, get! Leave people alone!
Crazy Ralph: You`ll never come back again.
Enos, the truck driver: Oh, shut up, Ralph.
Crazy Ralph: It`s got a death curse!
Bill: You think you`re gonna last all summer?
Alice: I`m not sure I`ll last all week.
Alice: Bill? Steve wants to know if we need more paint.
Bill: Paint`s all right. Need more thinner.
Alice: Okay.
Bill: Alice. Did the others show up?
Alice: Yeah, everybody except that girl Annie.
Bill: Think you`re gonna last all summer?
Alice: I don`t know if i`m gonna last all week.
Alice: I`ll tell Steve about the thinner.
Bill: Fine.
Pamela Voorhees: Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren`t paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should`ve been watched. Every minute. He was... He wasn`t a very good swimmer. We can go now... dear.
Ned: He neglected to mention that downtown they call this place Camp Blood.
Officer Dorf: You kids keep your noses clean, you understand? You`ll be hearing from me if you don`t! We ain`t gonna stand for any weirdness out here!
Jack: Come on. I love you.
Marcie: But what about Ned?
Jack: I don`t love Ned.
Pamela Voorhees: You let him drown. You never paid any attention. Look what you did to him. Look what you did to him.
Pamela Voorhees: Come, dear. It`ll be easier for you than it was for Jason.
Crazy Ralph: I`m a messenger of God. You`re doomed if you stay here!
Annie: Guess I always wanted to work with children. I hate when people call `em kids. Sounds like little goats. But when you`ve had a dream as long as I have, you`ll do anything.
Pamela Voorhees: [high voice] Kill her, Mommy! Kill her! Don`t let her get away, Mommy! Don`t let her live!
[normal voice]
Pamela Voorhees: I won`t, Jason. I won`t!
Ned: If you were a flavor of ice cream, what would it be?
Marcie: Rocky road.
Enos, the truck driver: I tell ya, he`s causing problems enough for your boss with all that talk... goddamn nuisance... Did he tell you anything?
Annie: Oh, I`ll be cooking for fifty kids and ten staff. The campers will mostly be like inner-city children.
Enos, the truck driver: I mean about what happened.
Annie: No.
Enos, the truck driver: [shakes head]
Annie: Come on, there`s something you`re not telling me.
Enos, the truck driver: Quit. Quit now.
Annie: Quit? Why would I wanna quit?
Enos, the truck driver: Camp Crystal Lake is jinxed.
Annie: Oh, terrific. Not you, too! You sound like your crazy friend back there, Ralph.
Enos, the truck driver: Did Christy ever tell you `bout the two kids murdered in `58? Boy drowning in `57? Buncha fires. Nobody knows who did any of `em. In 1962, they was gonna open up... the water was bad. Christy`ll end up just like his folks, crazy and broke. He`s been up there a year fixin` up that place. He musta dropped 25 thousand dollars, and for what? Ask anybody, quit.
Annie: I can`t.
Enos, the truck driver: Dumb kids. Know-it-alls. Just like my niece, heads fulla rocks.
Annie: You`re an American Original.
Enos, the truck driver: [mocking] I`m an American Original. Dumb kid.
Alice: [finding a bloody axe in someone`s bed; making a screwy face] *What* is going *on*?
Brenda: [upon repairing the generator] What hath God wrought?
Pamela Voorhees: She can`t hide; no place to hide.
Officer Dorf: What you been smoking, boy?
Jack: Smoke? Don`t smoke causes cancer.
Officer Dorf: You know what I mean! What, you just get off a spaceship or something? Come on, Coloumbian gold, man. Hash, the grass, the weed, dig it?
Steve Christy: Well, hi. What are you doing out in this mess?
[Pamela stabs him]
Pamela Voorhees: [seeing Brenda`s dead body] Oh, good Lord! So young. So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this?
Alice: Bill`s out there.
Ned: [after dancing around, doing a raindance with a stereotypical Native American headdress on] I`m just kidding around, officer...
Officer Dorf: OK, can it, Cochise.
Officer Dorf: Looking for someone. Guy named Ralph. Town crazy.
Ned: [acting a bit silly with the stereotypical Native American gear on] Well, there`s no crazy people around here!
Officer Dorf: I told you to sit on it, Tonto!
Marcie: [to Jack] You are so fine.
Jack: [seeing Bill with a big knife raised] Jesus Bill! What are you doing?
Bill: There`s a snake in here!
Marcie: Why are we in here?
Trivia
Body count: 10.
The first counsellor killed in the 1958 prologue is named "Barry" in the credits. The captions identify him as "Gary".
Sally Field auditioned for the role of Alice Hardy.
Steve Christy is named after Steve Miner, Associate Producer for the film.
The film has been spoofed a number of times, most notably in Saturday the 14th (1981)
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# Sean S. Cunningham has been quoted as saying that the type of actors that he sought for the film were "good-looking kids who you might see in a Pepsi commercial."
Estelle Parsons was originally signed on to play Mrs. Voorhees.
Adrienne King at first did not want to be in the film because of the graphic violence in it, but she changed her mind.
Betsy Palmer said that if it were not for the fact that she was in desperate need of a new car, she would never have taken the part of Pamela Voorhees. In fact, after she read the script she called the film "a piece of shit".
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# One critic was so angry at Betsy Palmer`s role in the movie (which had angered many of her fans), that he published her address in his magazine, and encouraged people to write her and protest her. He published the wrong address.
Most of the location and set was already there, they only had to build the bathroom set.
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# The movie was filmed at Camp Nobebosco in New Jersey. The camp is still in operation to date, and they have a wall of Friday the 13th paraphernalia to honor the fact that the movie was set there.
Tom Savini was one of the first crew members on board for the film because the producers idolized his special makeup effects in Dawn of the Dead (1978).
# The filmmakers never intended to make this the launching pad for the series that followed. According to Victor Miller, Jason was only meant as a plot device and not intended to continue on his mother`s grisly work.
# Composer Harry Manfredini has said that contrary to popular belief, the famous "chi chi chi, ha ha ha" in the film`s score is actually "ki ki ki, ma ma ma". It is meant to resemble Jason`s voice saying "kill kill kill, mom mom mom" in Mrs. Voorhees` mind. It was inspired by the scene in which Mrs. Voorhees seems to be possessed by Jason and chants "Get her mommy....kill her!" Manfredini created the effect by speaking the syllables "Ki" and "Ma" into a microphone running through a delay effect.
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# While most of the cast and crew stayed at local hotels during the filming, some of the loyal cast and crew members, including Tom Savini, and Taso N. Stavrakis, stayed at the actual camp site. They had Savini`s Betamax VCR and only a couple of movies (Barbarella (1968) and Marathon Man (1976)) on videotape to keep themselves entertained, so each night they would watch one of these movies. To this day, Savini says he can recite those movies by heart.
The film made $39,754,601 and had a budget of $550,000.
Filming lasted 28 days.
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# The scene with the snake was not in the script and was an idea from Tom Savini after an experience in his own cabin during filming. The snake in the scene was real, including its on-screen death.
Willie Adams was a crew member for the film. Although he spent most his time working behind the camera, he played the male counsellor in the 1958 scene, and holds the unique distinction of being the first murder victim in the Friday the 13th film series.
Betsy Palmer worked on the film for ten days, for which she received $1000 per day.
Betsy Palmer reportedly got the part of Mrs. Voorhees because she had a car in which to get to the shoot.
In the script, Marcie`s death scene was originally meant to show an arrow hitting her chest in the archery area. Depsite popular belief, this was never filmed.
Victor Miller admitted that he was purposely riding off the success of John Carpenter`s Halloween (1978).
Victor Miller had originally given Jason the name of Josh. After deciding that it sounded too nice, he changed it to Jason after a school bully.
SPOILER: During the first few weekends of the film`s release, makeup/effects artist Tom Savini would go into theaters for the last five minutes of the show to see the audience react to Jason emerging from the lake and grabbing Alice.
SPOILER: The film`s make-up effects artist, (Tom Savini), doubles for Brenda in the shot where her body is thrown through a window.
SPOILER: The fake ending scene in which Alice is attacked by Jason, was shot three times. Once in September, then October and finally in November, when the temperature was 28 degrees outside.
SPOILER: Makeup designer Tom Savini thought up the idea of Jason`s surprise appearance at the end of the movie.
SPOILER: In the scene where Bill is found impaled to a door with arrows, his eye twitches continually because the eye effect that Tom Savini applied was actually burning his eye and causing him excruciating pain.
SPOILER: There is rumored to be a deleted scene featuring the murder of Claudette. The crew of the film dismissed this, including Tom Savini, who said he never even worked on the opening scene. There is, however, a still of Claudette with a machete in her throat, although that may have been shot purely for promotional material.
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# SPOILER: Kevin Bacon`s character, lying in bed with his throat impaled by an arrow, has the blood in his neck making little bubbles. Originally, it was just meant to seep out, but the arrangement of the tube with blood didn`t work, and Tom Savini ended up blowing into the tube to make it flow, causing an unintended (but ultimately used) bubbling effect.
SPOILER: In the original first draft of the script, Mrs. Voorhees was supposed to lose her little finger while attempting to kill Barry.
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