Talk:Friday the 13th (film)

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Shouldn't there be a wiki site for Friday the 13th? I mean this is a huge phemonenon.

A timeline was once here. It has been removed due to copyright violation. For a similar page, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_and_Jason_universe_timeline --ChuckDizzle 01:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Based on a book? 2 Classical Guitar 3 Here come the tigers? 4 Cast list 5 Caption 6 Scream Reference

[edit] Based on a book?

Was this film based upon a novel? Thanks.

No it wasn't. According to Cunningham, the movie was done because he wanted to do a super low budget horror film to make some quick cash. Nevertheless, it worked.--74.128.180.187 18:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay. Thanks.

More specifically it was a film intended to pay the bills with, while he worked on producing a soccer movie.

Whoever posted that it was meant to cash in on Halloweens sucess is speculating. It isn't factual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.64.0.252 (talk) 01:51, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Classical Guitar

In the film, one of the kids plays a song on guitar. Any idea what song it is? Kabooky 01:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I think you thinking of either "Tom Dooley" or "River of Jordan."--ChuckDizzle 01:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Here come the tigers?

It says Cunningham used Friday the 13th as a way to get quick cash to make another me he thought would be big which is Here Come the Tigers but if you click the link to the IMDB reference it says here come the tigers was made in 1978 2 years before Friday the 13th even released isn't that like impossible? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.69.200.24 (talk) 13:58, 3 May 2007 (UTC).

He did do Here Come the Tigers first. I'm working on revamping this entire page with lots of production information, so take anything on it with a grain of salt. I'll remove that bit now though.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 14:05, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cast list

The jury's out on a separate cast list (Jaws (film) is an FA without a list), but there is a consensus that there is no need for a table. The JPS^{talk to me} 18:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I removed the list entirely because all of the key characters (even the truck driver) are listed in the plot, along with the actors that played them.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 19:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caption

Recently a user removed the full stop after the second caption arguing that it's (just) a "one sentence caption". Since it is a complete sentence the period has to persist, no matter whether there is only one sentence or more. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Captions. Sentence fragments like the description of the theatrical poster in the infobox don't need periods. Dutzi (talk) 18:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scream Reference

Under the production section, when discussing the twist about the killer's identity, there is a quick reference to Scream 2. This seems like a completely unnecessary spoiler for the film, which has no reason to be here whatsoever. I think removal of this sentence would be beneficial without causing any harm to the article as a whole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themightofprinces (talk • contribs) 01:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

A film article will contain spoilers, that's not going to change anything. But, I would remove it solely because there isn't a source to back up the fact that it was an intended homage to this film. This could just be someone reading between the lines themselves, so I'll go remove it.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 01:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)