The small group of teenagers then swim in the lake. According to legend, eleven year old Jason Voorhees, (Ari Lehman), drowned in the lake in 1957, because he couldn't swim. When Ned fakes his drowning, Jack performs CPR, only for Ned to laugh it off. Afterwards, they meet Officer Dorf, (Ron Millkie), who tells them that Crazy Ralph is "spreading the gospel". Ned, who is dressed as a Native American Indian, creates an annoying comedic scene, while he tells Jack off thinking he's on drugs. He then tells them that he won't stand any "weirdness" at Camp Crystal Lake, before he zooms off into town, leaving the camp counsellors to think that something horrific would happen to them without Steve around.
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The next part of "Friday the 13th", concerns Ned using arrows to hit the target, angering Brenda. She casts an look of anger at his pranking. Other characters in the 1980's, had other characters who were funny in slasher movies, as if to change the tension of the movie, and the mood. Afterwards, Ned sees someone in the cabins. "Can I help you?", he asks the stranger. No one answers. Then he moves inside the cabin, and is killed off-screen, like Claudette's death at the beginning of the film.
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Mark Lewis, (Karl Boehm), a photographer, uses it to attack London women in Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom"; Powell's only horror movie in the United Kingdom, was controversial upon release, in the height of "Psycho", (director Sir Alfred Hitchcock), (also 1960); Powell's career ended and he worked in Australia in the nineteen sixties, after working with Emeric Pressburger on other genre movies in the late nineteen forties, and nineteen fifties. Both movies formed the basis of the slasher pictures in the nineteen seventies, and nineteen eighties.
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As Marcie and Jack talk, Marcie mentions she had a dream in which the 'rivers turn bright red'. "It's only a dream", Jack says. Suddenly a storm arrives at Camp Crystal Lake, as they rush to the cabins. As they make out, Marcie leaves him to go to the toilet. Jack smokes dope. When they both die, the camera pans upward to see Ned's body in the upper bunk. Friday the 13th plays on the idea of dreams, and legends, to create a sense of dread; other sequels ignore those themes. When Alice, Bill, and Brenda play 'strip monopoly', Steve Christy is at the Diner. He meets a middle-aged waitress named Sandy who wears glasses. When he pays for his cheap meal, it starts to rain heavily. He leaves the Diner, and is greeted by Sheriff Tierney, (Ronn Carroll), who mentions bad luck happens on Friday the 13th. He gets a call on the radio that mentions a bad accident. And he drops Christy off. He walks towards Camp Crystal Lake, only to see the killer, whom he recognizes. And, as he is killed with a knife, he knows the horror is real.
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