<P> Prompted by the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, the film was made on an estimated budget of $550,000 and released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and by Warner Bros. in Europe . When originally released, the film received negative reviews from film critics, while managing to gross over $39.7 million at the box office in the United States . In the years that followed, retrospective reviews for the film have been more positive, and it has become a cult classic . </P> <P> Aside from being the first movie of its kind to secure distribution in the US by a major studio (Paramount Pictures), the film's box office success led to a long series of sequels, a crossover with A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a 2009 series reboot . </P> <P> In the summer of 1958 at Camp Crystal Lake, two counselors named Barry and Claudette sneak away from a campfire and into a storage barn . They prepare to have sex before an unseen assailant enters and murders them . </P> <P> Twenty one years later, on June 13, newly hired counselor Annie Phillips asks for directions to the reopened Camp Crystal Lake . An elderly man, Crazy Ralph, warns her against going, believing that the camp has a "death curse ." A friendly truck driver named Enos agrees to give Annie a lift halfway to the camp . During the drive, Enos warns Annie about the camp, informing her that a young boy drowned at Crystal Lake in 1957 and about the two murders the following year . After Enos drops her off, Annie hitches another ride from an unseen assailant, who chases her into the woods and slashes her throat . </P>

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