13 Things You Didn't Know About Friday The 13th

13. The Director Gave A Horror Icon His Break

Talking about Scream and the horror icon Wes Craven: it was Friday The 13th’s director and producer Sean S. Cunningham who gave Craven his big break in 1971.

Desperate to get into movies and attracted by the success of Cunningham's first feature, the zero-budget sexploitation movie (or 'white coater') The Art Of Marriage, Craven worked as editor and producer on the follow-up, a loose remake called Together.

The pair worked so well together that Cunningham produced Craven's written and directorial debut Last House On The Left the following year. It was the beginning of Craven’s storied horror career, but the last successful movie that Cunningham made until Friday The 13th itself in 1980.

When Craven took on Scream in 1995, he worried that he might be burned out on horror following the failure of New Nightmare and Vampire In Brooklyn, but working with genre obsessed screenwriter Kevin Williamson, he got his mojo back in spades - and pays homage to the man who gave him his break with that iconic film trivia question.