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The Big Picture After the box-office success of John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978 the slasher was a viable subgenre that would see numerous imitations trying to make a similar profit before it dipped in popularity the longer the decade went on. And the best of these imitations that came in Halloween's wake was Friday the 13th in 1980.
Release Date May 8, 1981 Director Tony Maylam Cast Leah Ayres , Brian Backer , Larry Joshua , Ned Eisenberg , Fisher Stevens Runtime 91 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Harvey Weinstein , Tony Maylam , Brad Grey Expand ‘The Burning’ Is Not Exactly a ‘Friday the 13th’ Ripoff In a classic slasher, there’s a dark past that sets everything in motion. In The Burning, this involves a group of campers at Camp Blackfoot who decide one night to prank Cropsy , the unpleasant caretaker.
Counselors Todd and Michelle bring a group of campers in canoes to reach a small island. Cropsy has followed and set the canoes adrift, leading to the counselors building a makeshift raft to let a small batch of the campers head back to Stonewater to get help. Woodstock is among those who head back on this raft. Along the way, one of the missing canoes is spotted. Woodstock and the others bring their raft closer and closer, and that’s when Cropsy pops out with his garden shears for butchering.
Jason Alexander Was Always a Funny Man Dave couldn’t be more different than Alexander’s famous role as the insecure, flustered George on Seinfeld. Dave is a cocky jokester that is constantly running his mouth, and the comedic lines in the movie wouldn’t be winning awards, but they get punched up thanks to Alexander’s natural timing. And he’s just as good at portraying the grim shift Dave goes through when he sees the raft’s aftermath.
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