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Friday the 13th
MEANRANK
57/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4435
- IMDb #3874
- Google retired #2596
- Rotten Tomatoes #3422
- Metacritic #4752
- Letterboxd #3960
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3809
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3351
- Metacritic Critics #4968
- Metacritic Audience #3330
- Criticker #2693
- Douban #2330
- Kinopoisk #4460
- AlloCiné #3572
- Trakt #3947
Every rating
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 22, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 36, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown killer while attempting to reopen a summer camp with a tragic history. Two decades prior, a young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned due to the counselors' negligence. One by one, the new staff falls victim to the vengeful force that now haunts Crystal Lake.
Details
- Director
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Writer
- Victor Miller
- Released
- 9 May 1980
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $550.0K
- Box office
- $39.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Best DVD/Blu-ray Collection 2014 | Best DVD/Blu-ray Collection | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| Best DVD Extras 2005 | Best DVD Extras | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies 2001 | America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| Grand Prize 1981 | Grand Prize | Sean S. Cunningham | Nominee |
| Worst Picture 1981 | Worst Picture | Sean S. Cunningham | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress 1981 | Worst Supporting Actress | Betsy Palmer | Nominee |
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6 awards — Friday the 13th
×| America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| Best DVD Extras | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| Best DVD/Blu-ray Collection | Friday the 13th | Nominee |
| Grand Prize | Sean S. Cunningham | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Sean S. Cunningham | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actress | Betsy Palmer | Nominee |