<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 - two years later, on June 13, 1980, newly hired counselor Annie Phillips asks for directions to the reopened Camp Crystal Lake . A friendly truck driver named Enos agrees to drive Annie halfway, but an elderly man, Crazy Ralph, warns her against going, believing that the camp has a "death curse". During the drive, Enos tells Annie about a young boy that 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> <P> At the camp, counselors Ned, Jack, Bill, Marcie, Brenda, and Alice, along with the owner Steve Christy, refurbish the cabins and facilities . As a thunderstorm approaches, Steve leaves the campground to stock supplies . Soon after, Ned sees someone walk into one of the cabins, and follows . As Jack and Marcie have sex in one of the cabin's bunk beds, they are unaware of Ned's body directly above them, his throat slit . Soon after, Jack is killed when his throat is pierced by an arrow from beneath the bed, and the killer murders Marcie by slamming an axe into her face . Brenda hears a child's voice calling for help and ventures outside her cabin to the archery range, only for the range lights to turn on as she is attacked off - screen . Eventually, Steve returns to the camp and is killed . </P>

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