who did the killing in the first friday the 13th movie
Mrs. Voorhees
title: Friday the 13th (1980 film) text: years later, in June 1979, camp counselor Annie Phillips is given a lift halfway to the reopened Camp Crystal Lake by a truck driver named Enos, despite being warned by an elderly man that the camp has a "death curse". While driving, Enos warns her about the camp, informing her that a young boy drowned at Crystal Lake in 1957 and about the two murders. After being dropped off, Annie hitches another ride from an unseen person, who chases her into the woods and slashes her throat. At the camp, counselors Ned Rubenstein, Jack Burrell, Bill Brown, Marcie Cunningham, Brenda title: Friday the 13th (1980 film) text: was divided, with some praising the film's cinematography, score, and performances, 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 "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and a 2009 series reboot. In the summer of 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, two counselors named Barry and Claudette sneak away from a campfire to have sex in a storage barn, where an unseen assailant murders them. Twenty-one title: Friday the 13th (franchise) text: Friday the 13th (franchise) Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who 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 title: Friday the 13th (1980 film) text: Friday the 13th (1980 film) Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, and written by Victor Miller. It stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Kevin Bacon, Jeannine Taylor, Mark Nelson, and Robbi Morgan. The film tells the story of a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while attempting to re-open an abandoned summer camp. 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 title: Friday the 13th (1980 film) text: was living in Stratford, Connecticut, near Cunningham, and the two had begun collaborating on potential film projects. 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. "I took motherhood and turned it on its head and I think that was great fun. Mrs. Voorhees was the mother I'd always wanted—a mother who would have killed for her kids." Miller was unhappy about the filmmakers' decision to make Jason Voorhees the killer in the sequels. "Jason was dead from the very beginning. He was a