friday the 13th box set

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FRIDAY THE 13th – FROM CRYSTAL LAKE TO MANHATTAN, ULTIMATE EDITION DVD COLLECTION

Special features include:

-Cast commentary on FRIDAY THE 13th - PART 3 by author Peter Bracke and actors Larry Zerner, Paul Kratka, Dana Kimmell and Richard Brooker

-Commentary on FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VI: JASON LIVES by director Tom McLouglin

-Commentary on FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD by actor Kane Hodder and director John Carl Buechler

-Commentary on FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN by director Rob Hedden

-A featurette "Tales From the Cutting Room," in which exclusive deleted scenes and footage is revealed for the first time.

-An 8-part featurette "The Friday The 13th Chronicles," which looks at the legacy of the films throughout their history, featuring cast and crew commenting on each film and why they appeal to audiences. Includes Adrienne King, Amy Steel, Corey Feldman, Kane Hodder, Lar Park Lincoln, Betsy Palmer, Tom Savini and directors Sean Cunningham, Tom McLoughlin, Rob Heddon, Joseph Zito and John Carl Buechler.

-A 3-part featurette "Secrets Galore Behind The Gore," which looks at the work of master make-up effects designer Tom Savini in Part 1 and Part IV and John Carl Buechler in Part VII. Includes rare and never-before-seen footage, drawings and stills illustrating the make-up techniques used to create Jason and achieve elaborate death scenes.

-A featurette "Crystal Lake Victims Tell All!," in which cast and crew from various films share amusing anecdotes. Includes Corey Feldman, Larry Zerner, Adrienne King, Amy Steel, Lar Park Lincoln and directors.

-A featurette "Friday Artifacts and Collectibles," which looks at props and collectables from the films.

-The theatrical trailers from all 8 movies except Part VI, which is represented by the teaser trailer.

FRIDAY THE 13th – FROM CRYSTAL LAKE TO MANHATTAN, ULTIMATE EDITION DVD COLLECTION is expected to be priced by retailers for around $60 in the U.S. and at around C$70 in Canada.

Synopses

FRIDAY THE 13th (1980) takes place years after a young boy named Jason drowns in a lake while attending Camp Crystal Lake and shortly thereafter, the camp closes. Flash forward to the present, where the owner decides to re-open the camp and one by one, the counselors have mysteriously been murdered by an unseen person.

94 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English and French Mono.
FRIDAY THE 13th – PART 2 (1981) picks up with Jason Voorhees, presumed dead from drowning years ago, exacting revenge on the innocent campers at "Camp Blood." Living as a hermit in the woods all these years, Jason witnesses the graphic murder of his mother and decides to wreak havoc on everyone at the camp – killing each camp counselor one by one.

86 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English and French Mono.
In FRIDAY THE 13th – PART 3 (1982), vacationing teenagers take off for a weekend of relaxation at Camp Crystal Lake. Planning a few days of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, they are in for a series of frightening surprises when a local motorcycle gang follows the teenagers back to their campsite, only to find a persistent Jason with an agenda of his own. Adorned with his trademark hockey mask for the first time in the series, Jason delivers non-stop chills and thrills as everyone on the lake must fight for their lives.

95 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English and French Mono.
In FRIDAY THE 13th – THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984), Jason resurfaces from a seemingly deadly massacre and returns to Camp Crystal Lake to a new set of prey. Starring a young Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys) as Tommy Jarvis, it seems Jason has finally met his match in the 12-year old horror movie maven. Enlisting the help of a local hunter, Tommy and his sister must rely on one another to help defeat Jason, while also trying to avoid their own demise.

91 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English and French Mono.
In FRIDAY THE 13th – PART V: A NEW BEGINNING (1985), with Jason dead, someone new has begun a killing spree of their own, using Jason's M.O. and preying on inhabitants of a sanctuary.

92 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English and French Mono.
FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VI: JASON LIVES (1986) has Tommy returning to the grave to ensure that Jason is indeed dead. Instead of remaining dead, Jason is accidentally brought back to life by Tommy and now Tommy must stop all the mindless killing and make sure Jason dies for good this time.

87 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English Ultra-Stereo and French Mono.
FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD (1988) centers on Tina Shepard, a young girl with telekinetic powers who believes she drowned her father in Crystal Lake. Returning back to the site as a method of supposedly helping her cope with her grief, Tina accidentally frees Jason from his watery grave, only to lead to more killing sprees by the man in the infamous hockey mask.

88 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround
English Ultra-Stereo and French Mono.
In FRIDAY THE 13th – PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN (1989), a graduating class of a local high school vacation on a cruise ship and unbeknownst to them, Jason is a stowaway on the same ship. Slowly killing students one at a time, Jason eventually sinks the boat, stranding the few lone survivors in Manhattan. Among those survivors, is Rennie, who believes Jason attempted to drown her as a child. Fighting for her their lives, Rennie and the other survivors must make sure Jason dies once and for all.

100 minutes
Rated R (R in Canada)
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 televisions
Dolby Digital English Ultra-Stereo and French Stereo Surround
All five discs are sub-titled in English and Spanish, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and encoded with the Macrovision' AntiCopy process.

(Thanks to DVDFile for this information)

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i guess there's a lot of dissapointment in the friday the 13th community about these dvd's, and some bureacratic shit combined with cost cutting have effectively NOT made this set "ultimate."  here's some more information on what's missing:

"Expect it too much? Ha!

One of the commentaries only happened because the director strongly requested to do it. He did it for free, but we almost didn´t get it - why? Because Paramount cut the production short.

Two commentaries did not happen, despite the parts being available and willing.

One commentary already available in R2 was not acquired.

Restored cut footage available in R2 and R4 is not part of the set - it was not acquired.

Paramount cut the music video and bloopers reel to cut down on costs.

One employee at Paramount confirmed by phone they do have cut footage (not in VHS, in actual film), all it takes is someone go down there dig it up. Not an easy job, right - it´s definetly a lot of man-hours. Well, two different professional DVD producers (one of them coming from the Nightmare set and other horror DVDs) offered to go into Paramount´s vaults look for the cut footage for free. Two different guys offered to do it. Not some random fans, two DVD producers. FOR FREE.

Paramount turned them both down.

The team that produced the DVD set wanted more time. Paramount refused.

Paramount´s rep said he was "dying to prove you wrong" when the regulars at HTF said there was no way the movies were going to be released unrated.

This set could be much better. They had the guys for the part 1 and 4 commentaries THERE, being interviewed and willing to do the commentaries. All it would cost was paying the sound booth guys to record it. A commentary track can be shot in a few hours. Part 3´s commentary was shot in a couple hours, so in 3 or 4 hours of work, they would´ve gotten TWO EXTRA commentaries.

This has been confirmed by not only Savini but also By Peter Bracke and the team behind the DVD set itself(toolbox): we didn´t get commentaries for part 1 and 4 because Paramount didn´t allow them to do it.

Cut scenes? It wouldn´t cost anything to Paramount. All it would take would be opening the door for two guys. Even if Paramount didn´t want to restore it, they would have the scenes in better shape than the VHS copies they have now - and for more movies too.

Paramount set a pointless date for release and cut production on the set short. Why the hell were they so dead-set into releasing this now? Why not next year? Freddy vs Jason´s buzz is long dead. They´re not cashing in on anything, they could easily let this set develop more and release it NEXT Halloween instead of this one.

If Paramount simply allowed them to do it, we would have more cut footage in the extras and more commentaries. If Paramount CARED, we would have a few unrated cuts and more commentaries."




so, there you go.

It's 60 dollars, not a bad price for these.  But as you see from the photos theyre putting 2 movies per disc, and that's fucking ridiculous.  Paramount is such a shitty studio when it comes to this stuff.

[mogwai]

post this kind of stuff at this thread:

http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?p=148748#148748

thanks.