Saturday the 14th

Infobox Film
name = Saturday the 14th


caption = "Saturday the 14th" theatrical poster
director = Howard R. Cohen
producer = Julie Corman
writer = Howard R. Cohen Jeff Begun
starring = Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss Severn Darden Jeffrey Tambor Kari Michaelsen
music = Parmer Fuller
cinematography = Daniel Lacambre
editing = Kent Beyda Joanne D'Antonio
released = October 30, 1981
runtime = 75 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:42968
imdb_id = 0083033
website =

"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.

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 Mary's 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.

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.

Trivia

Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss who are married in real life play the couple John and Mary in this film.

ee also

*Bloodbath at the House of Death
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