At Camp Crystal Lake, horny teenage camp counselors are getting picked off one by one by a homicidal maniac. What more do you need to know? This film gets major props for starting a huge phenomenon and being one of the most influential slasher films of the 1980s. Before this, there was basically Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, so it remains culturally significant as an artifact of that era (to the horror of most film historians). It inspired a plethora of shitty knock-offs and the cliché of dumb kids being attacked in the woods continue to this day.
The twist ending still holds up and gave birth to a franchise.
3 ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma's out of 5
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