Saturday the 14th

Oct 30, 1981

1h 16m

★ 5.0

Just when you thought it was safe to look at the calendar again.

Overview

After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.

Genres

Comedy

Fantasy

Horror

Production Companies

New World Pictures

Saturday the 14th Trailers

Cast

John

Richard Benjamin

Mary

Paula Prentiss

Waldemar

Jeffrey Tambor

Van Helsing

Severn Darden

Debbie

Kari Michaelsen

Billy

Kevin Brando

Aunt Lucille

Rosemary DeCamp

Marge

Carole Androsky

Cousin Rhonda

Roberta Collins

Attorney

Stacy Keach, Sr.

Uncle Bert

Allen Joseph

Yolanda

Nancy Lee Andrews

Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly contagious, fatal infection Guinin. A convicted murderer, whom Thom arrested, is one of their special drug test subjects, but escapes. The convict and Jen are affected by radioactively altered DNA from an experimental reactor used on mosquitoes which transfer quinine. The convict soon mutates into a mosquito-like monster, which sucks its victims dry. By the time Thom and his junior murder brigade partner Charlie Morrison figure out what happens, Jen starts mutating herself.

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