Saturday the 14th
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| Saturday the 14th | |
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 Saturday the 14th theatrical poster |
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| Directed by | Howard R. Cohen |
| Produced by | Julie Corman |
| Written by | Howard R. Cohen Jeff Begun |
| Starring | Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss Severn Darden Jeffrey Tambor Kari Michaelsen |
| Music by | Parmer Fuller |
| Cinematography | Daniel Lacambre |
| Editing by | Kent Beyda Joanne D'Antonio |
| Release date(s) | October 30, 1981 |
| Running time | 75 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Saturday the 14th is an American Horror-comedy film released in 1981. (See 1981 in film). The film was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988.
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[edit] Plot Summary
An all-American family inherits a deceased uncle's house. John (Richard Benjamin) and Mary (Paula Prentiss) together with their daughter Debbie (Kari Michaelsen), and son Billy (Kevin Brando) then move into the house. Waldemar (Jeffrey Tambor), a vampire figure, and Yolanda (Nancy Andrews), his wife, want desperately to get into the run down house because it contains a book of evil.
Billy finds the mysterious book Waldemar and Yolanda are after. He opens it and reads of a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. As he turns the page a monster is unleashed, and with each turn another disappears from the page and is materialized within or outside the home. The house is soon swarming with monsters. Soon strange things start happening: eyes appear in John's coffee, sandwiches are eaten, the television tunes into The Twilight Zone only, dirt is found in Marys bed, dishes get done by themselves, neighbors disappear. As this is happening, neither John or Mary suspect anything, blaming things on a lack of curtains.
Waldemar gets into the house by turning into a bat. Mary keeps hearing noises at night which she thinks are owls, but are the sounds of Waldemar as the bat outside her window. John hires an exterminator to get rid of the owls. The exterminator is actually Van Helsing (Severn Darden), who is also after the book of evil in the house.
John and Mary begin planning a house warming party on Saturday the 14th. Guests arrive but can not leave. When they try, a large storm appears outside the door. As the night unfolds the monsters begin to off the guests one by one. Eventually a duel between Van Helsing and the vampire erupts where it is discovered that Van Helsing is after the book in order to rule the world. The vampire Waldermar is actually trying to prevent this from happening. Good wins over evil, as Van Helsing and the monsters are defeated. The family ends up in an upscale all-American looking home while Waldemar and Yolanda keep the original house as their own.
[edit] Cast
- Richard Benjamin as John, the father of the family.
- Paula Prentiss as Mary the mother of the family.
- Severn Darden as Van Helsing evil genius disguised as an exterminator.
- Jeffrey Tambor as Waldemar vampire figure looking to buy the house.
- Kari Michaelsen as Debbie daughter of John and Mary.
- Nancy Andrews as Yolanda wife of the vampire Waldermar.
- Kevin Brando as Billy son of John and Mary.
[edit] Trivia
Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss who are married in real life play the couple John and Mary in this film.
