The controversial 1959 Swedish drama directed by Ingmar Bergman, (The Virgin Spring"), winner of "Best Foreign Film" Academy Awards in 1960, is a tale of a girl who is killed by village men in the 14th century, and her parents get revenge. It starred actor Max von Sydow, before he starred in "The Exorcist", 1973, (William Friedkin), in Hollywood after a career in Europe. Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham re-made it as "Last house on the Left", (made in 1971, released in 1972). The latter movie wasn't released for decades as a Video Nasty in the 1980's. While Craven then made "The hills have eyes", in 1977, five year's later. It kick started his career as a writer, director, producer, and actor; Cunningham struggled until "Friday the 13th", was made. The movie begins with title: CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, 1958. As the night moon glows, a group of campers are singing camp songs. When Barry, (Willie Adams), and his girlfriend Claudette, (Debra S. Hayes), the camp counsellors, are supposed to look after eleven year old Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), the previous Friday the 13th in the summer of 1957. But, as they make out in the barn, they're killed by an unseen murderer. Afterwards, Camp Crystal Lake suffers fires in 1959, and the water is poisoned in 1962, three years' later.
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US poster of John Carpenter's horror classic "Halloween", (1978). The success of the indie movie, and Bob Clark's "Black Christmas", (Canada, 1974), set the tone for "Friday the 13th", to become a controversial classic in the early 1980's....and beyond.
It is bad luck to go into attics. "Black Christmas", (Bob Clark, 1974).
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