Friday the 13th (1980)-Part 4

Alice Hardy, (Adrienne King), is the "Final Girl", as she survives the horror of Camp Crystal Lake. In the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, strong female characters in horror movies dominated the cinema screens across America, the UK, and the World, before CGI and the Internet promoted cult, low-budget, and indie movies.
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With the success of "Psycho", (1960), with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, (Sir Alfred Hitchcock), based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, there were other movies about psychopaths: from "Dementia 13", (1963), Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by Roger Corman, and "Blood and Black Lace", (1964), Mario Bava, with Cameron Mitchell, flooded the cinema of the 1960's; by the 1970's, there were Dario Argento's debut "The bird with the Crystal Plumage"; "3 on a Meathook", (1972), William Girdler; "When Michael Calls", (1972), Phillip Leacock, a made for television horror movie based on the novel by John Farris, (The Fury, 1976), directed by Brian de Palma, (1978). The movie is on YouTube with Ben Gazzara, and Michael Douglas, about a boy who is dead but calls people fifteen year's later. The use of the telephone as an object of horror pre-dates "Black Christmas", (1974); John Carpenter's Halloween, 1978; and "When a stranger calls", (1979), Fred Walton. By 1980, there was a change in horror movies as the new decade started. And "Friday the 13th", kick-started trifecta of have sex, do drugs, and die violently, that swept America and Canada from emerging directors like Tobe Hooper, 1974's  ("The Texas chainsaw massacre"); and David Cronenberg's "Shivers", (1975).
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The US poster of "Psycho", (1960), which set the tone for the crime and horror genres to be mixed into the modern slasher movie we know today.
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After Annie's death, the viewer meets several teenagers in a van. Jack, (a young Kevin Bacon), his girlfriend Marcie, (Jeannine Taylor); and nerdy Ned, (Mark Nelson). Ned is a comedic character that is far removed from the other older horror movies of the past; there is no shock value other than he provides wit, wisdom, and commits acts of love towards Brenda, (Laurie Bartram), as they arrive at Camp Crystal Lake. Once they do, they meet Steve Christy, who is chopping down a tree with an axe. When he orders them to help out, Alice and Bill, (Harry Crosby), set up the camp while he leaves them in a green jeep to head into town to get supplies, leaving them alone at the campgrounds.
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