As Edna sat knitting, a TV newscaster (voice of director Steve Miner) reported on a "grisly mass murder scene" in the quiet community of Crystal Lake - the discovery of 8 corpses ("the most brutal and heinous crime in local history").For her to be certain of the name, the postal clerk directs her to the home of the town""s schoolteacher to verify it - describing locations that will become prominent in later portions of the film:You go straight through town until you see a little hotel on your left.And then those woods are real deep.The river""s inaccessible except at a couple of points...This is the last chance we got to see this river.You just wait till you feel that white-water under you, Bobby...I""ll have you in the water in an hour.The first view of the city-dwelling buddies in the film occurs when the vehicles pull into a junk-littered, backwoods area that appears "evacuated already.Facing toward each other, they almost touch and fall into each other""s arms, but refrain from doing so.