20 Things You Somehow Missed In Friday The 13th (1980)

16. Staying At Camp

Camp Crystal Lake Friday the 13th
Warner Bros./Paramount Pictures

Many films have shot in idyllic locations that later make audiences feel uncomfortable.

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a Boy Scout camp in Hardwick, New Jersey, provided a perfect atmosphere for Camp Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th.

The idyllic lakeside location was beautiful and inviting in the early sequences of the film, uncomfortable during the storm that besieges the valley, and claustrophobically dark and terrifying during the final confrontation between Alice and Mrs Voorhees.

Whilst most of the film's cast and crew stayed in hotels during the filming, a loyal few, including special make-up effects technician, Tom Savini and his assistant, Taso N. Stavrakis actually stayed on location during the shoot.

They had a small number of films available for entertainment, including Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and John Schlesinger's Marathon Man (1976). Savini has since claimed that he saw these films so many times that he can still recite them line for line.

Unlike other locations that have come to regret their involvement in horror films, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco still celebrates the part that it played in Friday the 13th.

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