Home for Horror: Friday the 13th (1980) · R

The film that lit the fuse on the slasher boom. Counselors at reopened Camp Crystal Lake are picked off one by one. Where it all began. The film that lit the fuse on the American slasher boom. At the newly reopened Camp Crystal Lake — decades after a young boy drowned there — a group of counselors are picked off one by one as a summer storm rolls in. Tom Savini’s practical makeup effects, Harry Manfredini’s stinging score, and one of horror’s most quoted final acts made it a cultural juggernaut. Where the entire franchise begins.