Saturday the 14th

Saturday the 14th (1981)

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

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.

Date of release
1981-10-30
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (114)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director
Howard R. Cohen
Collection
Saturday the 14th

Casting

Interesting facts

Saturday the 14th is a 1981 American comedy horror film starring real-life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin, co-written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman.

Production

The film was based on an idea of Jeff Bergun who told it to Howard Cohen. Cohen wrote up a synopsis and sent it to Roger Corman. Corman asked Cohen to write it and Cohen agreed if he could direct.

Julie Corman says "I thought, “This is a lot of fun. I’d like to produce it"." It was one of a number of films Prentiss and Benjamin made together.

Filming took three weeks. Julie Corman recalls Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin "had very individual ideas about their characters. I didn’t get the feeling that one dictated to the other. Dick was generally in charge of presenting a message that maybe I wouldn’t like to say to Paula. For example, Paula, who’s supposed to be a vampire in the movie, didn’t want to wear fangs.

Despite being set in the fictional town of Eerie, Pennsylvania, the Spooky House Exteriors and Interiors, in which the Hyatt Family inherited from their Late Uncle by mistake in the film, is located in the University of Southern California district in Los Angeles at 1190 West Adams Boulevard.

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