Ripping off Halloween was the idea that got the project started, but the resulting movie was fundamentally different than Halloween. For starters, F13 fits into 2 genres (slasher and whodunit) while Halloween only fits into one (slasher).
Other notable differences include:
- The killer turns out to be a dead boy's psycho mother rather than an escaped mental patient.
- The youth camp setting is completely different to the typical American neighborhood setting of the fictitious Haddonfield, Illinois. "Halloween" was actually shot in a Los Angeles neighborhood whereas the original "Friday the 13th" was shot in remote townships of Hardwick, Blairstown & Hope, New Jersey.
- The "Ki ki ki, ma ma ma” theme is totally different from Carpenter's moody score.
- Future "Friday" installments feature the resurrected Jason as the increasingly zombie-like killer, evidently under the control of some diabolic entity, as revealed in Part IX, along with an imitation killer in Part V who was presumably also controlled by the demonic thing.
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