The core of Friday the 13th’s technical crew – namely Barry Abrams and his crew of followers – had recently come-off of working on the film The Children, and they were tired. Chairs, knives, signs, tables, those kinds of things.” I spent most of the time drafting designs for materials that we still needed for the film. “I didn’t get to watch much of the filming, or party with the rest of the crew, because me and my crew were always working. “From the day me and my team arrived on location for the start of filming, we started working in the cabin for twenty hours a day, throughout the filming,” Field recalls. Virginia Field set up shop in another cabin, along with her small design unit, for construction and drafting work. The cast and crew stayed at nearby hotels and motels, but after awhile, a lot of them would hang-out at the cabins with us because we were having so much fun.” “I set-up a Beta machine in one of my cabins and we’d watch movies when we weren’t working. “Me and my small crew stayed at the campsite and we pretty much had the run of the place,” Savini recalls. Savini also commandeered the camp’s cafeteria location for his effects work, particularly the oven which he used to bake his creations. Most of Friday the 13th’s cast members, those whose characters were killed in the story, would end-up sitting for hours in this chair while Savini worked his effects magic. Effects expert Savini, along with his assistant and friend Taso Stavrakis, immediately designated one cabin as Savini’s makeup cabin to house Savini’s effects creations throughout filming, along with Savini’s invaluable barbershop chair. They were greeted by Sean Cunningham and Steve Miner who – along with Barry Abrams, Virginia Field, Tom Savini, and a few other members of the technical crew – had already set-up shop at the main Camp-No-Be-Bo-Sco filming location.Ĭunningham and Miner had worked out a deal with the camp’s proprietors – involving a modest “rental fee” – that gave the Friday the 13th production free run of the place throughout the months of September and October. They all anticipated the start of principal filming (some additional filming had taken place at the campsite, and around Blairstown, beginning on August 20, 1979, with a partial crew) which commenced on September 4, 1979, the day after Labor Day. Toward the end of August 1979, the bulk of Friday the 13th’s cast and crew, those that weren’t already on location, arrived in Blairstown, New Jersey.

Friday the 13th film location