《《》》Storyline
..We live in Claustrophobia, a land of steel and concrete, trapped by dark waters.There is no escape, nor do we want it.We've come to thrive on it and each other.You can't get the adrenalin pumpin' without the terror, good people...I love this town."All the future places of gruesome stalkings in NYC by the hockey-masked killer were foreshadowed:downtown with gangbang membersthe sewer (a manhole cover with steam emanating)the alley with street-gang thugsthe barrel of slimy waterthe dinerthe subway and its long escalatorand drug-addicts in another alleyA modern houseboat, namedLady Drifter, sailed peacefully by the run-down Crystal Lake campground, with onboard teenaged lovers - two seniors from Lakeview High School:Jimmy Miller (Todd Shaffer)Suzi Donaldson (Tiffany Paulsen)The two had sailed there to join their graduation cruise to the "seductive city" - graduation day was the 13th of the month.I'm not that friendly to anybody." After Eddie arrives and interrupts, he again asks his familiar question of one of the leaders: [In the film, Harry, Slim, and Frenchie are he only ones who correctly answer Eddie's cryptic question.Although they eventually were surrounded, Gandalf safely led the group down into an underground stone corridor - a Hidden Pass.[Note: Mirroring and double images are rampant in the film: Danny/Tony, the sane vs.insane Jack, Jack/Grady, the two girls in the corridor, the woman/hag in Room 237, etc.] After flying by a small sliver of an island (with a few trees) in the lake's center, the shot dissolves from the lake o a God's-eye, aerial view of a two-lane mountainous road far below, winding through sun-drenched tall pines in the early morning.