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With the original ‘Friday the 13th' (1980), Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) is shown as the strongest woman in the film, the heroine who survives. The film is also different because the antagonist is female, Mrs. Voorhees, but she is portrayed as more masculine. Betsy Palmer who played Mrs. Voorhees was bulked up with many sweaters, wore trousers and masculine shoes and had her hair short, all stereotypical attributes of the male. Males fear the power of females especially when females become more masculine, and so it is Alice who is feminine throughout the film that is the only character that can defeat her. Alice is a good example of a positive female heroine, not a great one, but the character of Alice takes part in strip poker, has been shown at the beginning of the movie to have had an affair with an older man (the owner of Camp Crystal Lake, Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer)), and even drinks and flirts; and yet she is not punished for these acts by death. Alice is still able to fight and defeat the villain without the aid of a man; Alice uses her own strength and intelligence to kill the villain. A far cry from the 2009 film where every woman was objectified.