Spoiler and Mature Content Warning

“Friday the 69th” is a mature parody of classic slashers directed by Alex Montilla. The cast and crew consisted of Montilla’s friends and family, and the entire film was shot on an iPhone with a budget of $15,000.

The movie follows famous pornography director Ivan Moorehead (Eric Anderson), who’s broke because all of his porn is really mediocre. He hatches a scheme with producer Michael Caime (Alex Montilla) to get rich by making a “Friday the 13th/Texas Chainsaw Massacre” style slasher.

They put together a cast of the best pornography actors available that day and secured funding from Fierce Whiskers Whiskey in order to make Friday the 69th.

All the characters in this movie have sex-pun names such as Rod Woodcock (Bud Galloway), Rock Hardigan (Robert Zoppo) and Poppy St. Cherry (Anna Bess). The one exception is Penelope Flaversham (Amy Letcher) who is the sole trained actor on the cast. Naturally, she plays the main character Judy in the in-universe film.

The in-universe movie follows a group of teens who are visiting a campsite with a shady past over the summer while a mysterious killer starts picking people off one-by-one.

Eventually,it is revealed that the campsite was built over an American-Nazi hideout during World War II, and every 69th Friday of each decade a series of murders break out. Of course, this turns out to be a coincidence as the real murderer is Judy’s evil twin sister who kills to protect Judy (and also for fun).

In order for the in-universe movie to be shown to mainstream theaters, they couldn’t have any real sex scenes. Moorehead assures everyone that there isn’t any sex in the movie, but Caime snuck a scene in that takes place in a hot tub.

Ironically, the actors in that scene, David Arnold Rubin and Amber Kellehan, were exes who had recently broken up in real life making the two nine-hour long shoots of the scene very awkward.

The film has a joke-a-minute format. If you don’t like one joke, that’s okay, there’s five more right after.

One running gag comes from the in-universe film’s sponsor, Fierce Whiskers Whiskey. They’re required to put product placement throughout the movie, so the characters will just spontaneously do an ad-read mid-conversation.

The film spoofs the early era of slasher flicks when everyone had no budget but still managed to make enduring classics of varying quality. Movies like “New Year’s Evil” and “Silent Night, Deadly Night” come to mind. The film does a great job replicating this era by using similar effects, adding a film grain filter and by making a bunch of shots out of focus.

Friday the 69th may not win any Oscars, but it's still a great time. The film is planned to get a streaming release later this year.