“Friday the 13th”(1980) is an American horror film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and tells the story of a group of camp counselors, who are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before.
I really like watching old movies when composers were using “basic” musical treatments. Nowadays film scores seem more complex and they loose sometimes their primary purpose, which in my opinion is telling/ explaining plot through sound for example indicating that something bad is going to happen or that main character is in love, so called “leitmotif”. “Friday 13th” is this iconic scary movie that everyone at least heard of. Film score here plays the role of the medium that prepares us for any change of scenes or even emotions. We can find here usage of the sound of “screeching strings”, whenever tension increases. In main theme I really liked as well usage of sound of quick and short human’s breaths. It’s almost like killer is behind me, which, in my opinion, represents the murderer from movie very accurately as he’s haunting his victims like animals and then killing them by surprise.