Friday The 13th Blog

The slasher monster-mash is now actually already available in Canada (Amazon CA) but we were tipped off by fan Bryan Sumner that it’s coming to the States next week on February 17th! However, on closer inspection since the US distributor is one ‘101 Distribution’ who tend to import much of their stock, so I’d fathom [...]

Here’s a great new interview with Dan Farrands, (pictured here at last year’s Writer’s Strike with The Shape) the friendly director of His Name Was Jason (now availible, for those of you sleeping inside a zipped camping bag). Pay close attention to his comments about the DVDs for part 7 and 8. Long lost [...]

Bloody-Disgusting reports that they have learned Paramount is planning a Blu-Ray boxset much like the previous boxset. Please read the following:
“This past Tuesday Paramount Home Entertainment released the original Friday the 13th on Blu-ray, while sticking parts 2 and 3 on DVD (again). We learned over the weekend that Paramount is already prepping to release [...]

Interesting thread by Rhett over at Horror DVDs.com…
The new FRIDAY THE 13TH Blu-ray and DVD discs have an image that has been zoomed in and re-framed 10.6% compared to the original theatrical ratio (and the ratio presented on previous discs). How you feel about this? Too small to matter, or too big to ignore?
Now where [...]

REVIEW: Christian Sellers
Thanks to Michael Moore, Metal: A Headbangers Journey and Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, the documentary is no longer something that is reduced to a DVD featurette and has now become a movie in its own right. The one movie that gorehounds have been counting [...]

For those of you fans living the Burbank, CA area there will be a Friday the 13 reunion celebrating the February 3rd release of ‘His name was Jason’.
Burbank’s famed gothic book retailer Dark Delicacies will host a thirty guest DVD signing that night – including the first Los Angeles appearance of the actors who have [...]

Ever since the early days in which movies could be bought or rented to enjoy in the comfort of our own home, fans have longed for an easy way to take home Friday the 13th part 3 and watch it the way it was meant to be seen; In 3D. Numerous attempts at bootleg versions [...]

In 1981, the success of the original “Friday the 13th” forced the movie folks to decide that it was time to take a quick trip back to Crystal Lake. This time, the one behind the machete was the long “Thought to have drowned” son of previous killer Pamela Voorhees, Jason Voorhees. Thus, a horror icon [...]

For those of you who live in the Los Angeles area, go by the New Beverly Theater (7165 West Beverly Blvd) on Friday January 30th for a special midnight showing of His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th ,the brand new documentary from Starz and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Co-sponsored by Bloody-Disgusting, [...]

Hi everyone. So what better way to wet everyone’s appetites until the new Friday is released than a trip down memory lane?
Fangoria has reviewed His Name Was Jason and the review goes quite in depth about what is included and which gold nuggets to keep an eye out for. Sadly it does confirm that Steve [...]

Here are the menu screens for ‘His name was Jason’ DVD.

Shock Til’ you drop

This mostly flew under the radar for the longest time, but the most unplugged feature of the new DVDs are a series of short Friday The 13th tribute films called Lost Tales From Camp Blood. Akin to fanfilms, these are much more elevated due to them being officially sanctioned and exclusively featured for these DVD [...]

Here is cover art to the Region 2 Blu-Ray editions of Friday The 13th Part 2 and Part 3 (does not appear to be in 3D), now up at amazon.co.uk for pre-order and streeting in the United Kingdom on Feb 9th. If I had to make a guess, I’d blame the economy for Paramount being [...]

As long as I can remember, fans have sought after an uncut edition of Friday the 13th. While it was typically obtainable through foreign markets and bootlegs, never before was it released commercially in the US. Thus the excitement amongst Friday the 13th fans reached a fever pitch in September of 08, during a [...]

On February 3rd at 7 p.m. at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, signing session for His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th. It’s released the same day, but many places online you pre-order tend to ship DVDs out a few days early. You can also pre-order it from Dark Del for $19.95 fully [...]

Fangoria have the first review of the jam-packed His Name Was Jason DVD and you can read it right here.
The first disc offers the docu, plus a collection of bonus interviews called The Men Behind the Mask. Here, fans get brief chats with every gent who ever played you-know-who (yes, the Steve Daskawisz/Warrington Gillette and [...]

As we theorized back in August, another “trilogy chunk” is on the way from Paramount. Confirmation comes via the ever-reliable Shock Till You Drop. As always, don’t expect a release date and special features list right this very moment. But due for release later in the year:
Friday The 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (Special [...]

Raise your hand if you’re just as interested in this documentary as the remake. *Raises hand* Here’s the official promo for His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th, due to street on DVD on Feb. 3rd, followed by a world-premiere broadcast on the Starz network on Friday, February 13th.

Source: Shock Till You Drop

Here’s all you need to get drooly over Feb’s new DVD editions of the initial Friday trilogy. Part one is the only entry to get a Blu-Ray release for now, but expect it to function as a trial balloon for how the slasher series would fare on the emerging high-def format. The extras are brand [...]