Friday the 13th Part 1 filming locations | Happy Friday the 13th!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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The original Friday the 13th was filmed around the hope/Blairstown New Jersey areas and was the beginnings of one of the most popular slasher franchises today. Come along as we explore these filming locations over 40 years later.
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Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television series, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who was thought to have drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be "cursed" and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, as either the killer or the motivation for the killings. The original film, created to cash in on the success of Halloween (1978),[1] was written by Victor Miller and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. The films have grossed over $468 million at the box-office worldwide.
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. Its plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past.
Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), director Cunningham put out an advertisement to sell the film in Variety in early 1979, while Miller was still drafting the screenplay. After casting the film in New York City, filming took place in New Jersey in the summer of 1979, on an estimated budget of $550,000. A bidding war ensued over the finished film, ending with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film for domestic distribution, while Warner Bros. secured international distribution rights.
Released on May 9, 1980, Friday the 13th was a major box office success, grossing $59.8 million worldwide. Critical response was divided, with some praising the film's cinematography and score, while numerous others derided it for its depiction of graphic violence. Aside from being the first independent film of its kind to secure distribution in the U.S. by a major studio, its box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, and a 2009 series reboot. A direct sequel, Friday the 13th Part 2, was released one year later.
Friday the 13th was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously worked with filmmaker Wes Craven on the film The Last House on the Left. Cunningham, inspired by John Carpenter's Halloween,[3] wanted Friday the 13th to be shocking, visually stunning and "[make] you jump out of your seat."[3] Wanting to distance himself from The Last House on the Left, Cunningham wanted Friday the 13th to be more of a "roller-coaster ride."[3]
The original screenplay was tentatively titled A Long Night at Camp Blood.[4] While working on a redraft of the screenplay, Cunningham proposed the title Friday the 13th, after which Miller began redeveloping.[4] Cunningham rushed out to place an advertisement in Variety using the Friday the 13th title.[5] Worried that someone else owned the rights to the title and wanting to avoid potential lawsuits, Cunningham thought it would be best to find out immediately. He commissioned a New York advertising agency to develop his concept of the Friday the 13th logo, which consisted of big block letters bursting through a pane of glass.[6] In the end, Cunningham believed there were "no problems" with the title, but distributor George Mansour stated, "There was a movie before ours called Friday the 13th: The Orphan. It was moderately successful. But someone still threatened to sue. Either Phil Scuderi paid them off, but it was finally resolved."[5]
The screenplay was completed in mid-1979[4] by Victor Miller, who later went on to write for several television soap operas, including Guiding Light, One Life to Live and All My Children; at the time, Miller was living in Stratford, Connecticut, near Cunningham, and the two had begun collaborating on potential film projects.[5] Miller delighted in inventing a serial killer who turned out to be somebody's mother, a murderer whose only motivation was her love for her child.
The idea of Jason appearing at the end of the film was initially not used in the original script; in Miller's final draft, the film ended with Alice merely floating on the lake.[8] Jason's appearance was actually suggested by makeup designer Tom Savini.[8] Savini stated that "The whole reason for the cliffhanger at the end was I had just seen Carrie, so we thought that we need a 'chair jumper' like that, and I said, 'let's bring in Jason'".
Classic 80s and 90s childhood memories!
That was wonderful! So great to see how little has changed. Thank you for another amazing video, Randy!! 😊
Thanks for watching!
I will be in Covington Ga in about 9 days. Camp Forest Green, here i come! Awesome video!! I need to go there
That’s awesome! Enjoy
Thanks Randy Friday the 13th will always be a Classic and favorite film from an Era when Horror films were actually made with Love and great Acting You are always Awesome and a favorite to watch.
Thanks so much!
That was very cool too see. Seems like the town might possibly keep lot of the locations the same for the movie fan tourists. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Great video, thanks!
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
It's so cool to see these movie locations. You are lucky to live so close by. Thank you for sharing this and your wonderful knowledge with us!
It was my pleasure
Love it Randy! Thanks for sharing I wanna try and go to the camp next year!!
It’s a little pricey for the tour but definitely awesome!
@@RandomlyRandy58 awesome thank you for the heads up! Did you do the tour and watch the movie insight or just the tour?
@@brandocommando2577 tour with the movie… it was raining though so we didn’t watch it on the beach we were next to the fireplace
@@RandomlyRandy58 oh wow that is still really cool just added to the atmosphere of the movie since it’s raining in the movie too lol.
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!
So good to see so many of the places are still pretty much the same & great video
Thanks!!! It’s truly amazing how similar a lot of the spots are.
Beware of snakes. I saw 3 in the bush on the left of the small bridge as you face the waterfall at Blairstown academy entrance.
Yes BEWARE!!! They are all over the place
I've seen this filming location a thousand times on UA-cam, but anytime a new one comes up in my recommendations I give it a watch. And I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed your video man. I think you're the first person to actually show some walking shots leading up to the filming locations. Or "real time" location as you said. At least that I can remember. I don't think I've ever seen some of these shots from these angles. Usually people just cut from location to location without showing any surrounding areas even if they're not in the movie. It gives kind of a new appreciation to the location. For me anyway. Next time you should do a pov walk down the sidewalk of the blue building like Annie did. Be cool to see what she saw walking down there and maybe see what's behind that building. Roy's hall I think what it said. Thanks for the video
I’m glad you liked it… and I love the idea of getting Annie’s pov… stay tuned 😂
The little lunchonette that Annie met enis at was next to the Blairstown museum
The interiors were actually in hope.
That's pretty cool to be there and see it now
Love visiting filming locations!
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Really Enjoyed This 👍🏻🇬🇧
Glad you did! Thanks for watching
Subscribed. Great intro. You sound enthusiastic and you have personality which is extremely important for a UA-cam channel. Some UA-camrs even take acting classes because it helps.
Much appreciated and thanks!!! I definitely have never had an acting class 😬 🤣
@@RandomlyRandy58 you should look into it. I hear it helps
Thanks for the location vid. I've been to quite a few horror movie locations , but I haven't been out there yet.
Thanks for watching… some good spots for this movie!
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Was that in the video? Lol
Do they do any tours of the camp where they shot the original movie?
Yes they do!!! ua-cam.com/video/s-Wa-b9ZjsA/v-deo.htmlsi=aAMAbzeLkdBc-SSQ
@@RandomlyRandy58 Thanks for that 👍🙏
Hey Randy, Chris here……awesome video!!!!! I see that you mentioned you live in PA,?a half hour away from the filming location…….i live in PA too a half hour too……. Milford to be exact……. Very cool stuff man!!!!
I just drove through Milford last Tuesday… I’m a bit south of you but not far.