Friday the 13th (Extended Killer Cut
and Theatrical Cut) (Amazon Digital
Bundle + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
starring Derek Mears, Jared
Padalecki, Arlen Escarpeta, Danielle
Panabaker, Ben Feldman
A Nice Relaunch Of The Franchise!
If you thought a bigger budget and an A-list producer (Michael Bay) would
go to Jasons head, well, forget it. The indestructible villain of so many
bottom-of-the-barrel shockers isnt about to change his shtick, and the 2009
Friday the 13th proves it. This, the umpteenth sequel (nope, its not a
remake of the origin story) to the original 1980 movie, gives us a clever
prologue that manages to fit an entire Jason Voorhees killing spree in a
brisk and bloody 20 minutes. Jumping ahead six weeks, the film introduces

a carload of clueless teens headed for a weekend at a lakeside cabin, plus
a lone motorcyclist (Jared Padalecki) in search of his missing sister
(Amanda Righetti). When the lakeside happens to refer to Crystal Lake, of
course, there can be only one outcome. Cue the hockey mask, and pass
the machete. Bay and director Marcus Nispel, who collaborated on the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, are surprisingly indifferent to changing
up the formula this time, although theres more care taken in building up a
few characters, and for once the comic relief (mostly supplied by Aaron
Yoo and Arlen Escarpeta) is pretty funny. You might even regret the
slaughter of a couple of these young folk, which is an unusual feeling in
Friday-watching. The films Jason is quite the athletic fellow, and hes
assembled an elaborate underground corpse-hiding lair in the vicinity of
Crystal Lake. How hes been able to live down there for 30 years (if the
films own timeline is to be believed) and had enough unwitting campers
pass by to keep himself entertained is anybodys guess. But if they keep
coming, hell keep slashing. --Robert Horton Also on the disc
The Blu-ray disc includes both the extended Killer Cut (which is 106
minutes compared to 97) and the theatrical cut, though it defaults to play
the Killer Cut; if you want the theatrical cut, you have to select it on the
special-features menu. Its hard to imagine choosing to watch the theatrical
cut, however. In addition to some more of Amanda Righetti and of Jason,
the extra nine minutes is mostly more gore in the gory scenes and more
sex in the sexy scenes. If youre squeamish you might not want those
things, but if youre that squeamish you probably dont want to watch Friday
the 13th in the first place, right? The longer cut will give you more of the
stuff that you probably watch this movie for. But the theatrical cut is on the
disc if you want it, as well as a couple of 11-minute featurettes on the new
movie and the franchise, three deleted scenes (a different version of Jason
getting his mask, the police response to the phone call, and a revised
climax), and The 7 Best Kills, which provides behind-the-scenes info on
key deaths. A commentary track, which combines movie and franchise
trivia with picture-in-picture footage of crew members discussing the film, is
pretty sporadic (it tends to appear more frequently on the important
scenes) and repeats some of the info in other features (which is pretty
common). Theres also a second disc with a Digital Copy of the film, and
additional features on BD-Live. --David Horiuchi
Personal Review: Friday the 13th (Extended Killer Cut and
Theatrical Cut) (Amazon Digital Bundle + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
starring Derek Mears, Jared Padalecki, Arlen Escarpeta, Danielle
Panabaker, Ben Feldman
On June 1980, a manical woman murdered a dozen camp counslers as
her own son named Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) witnessed the death
of his mother and swears to avenge her over the years. Now in the present
day a man named Clay Miller (Jared Padaleck) searches for his sister
Whitney (Amanda Righetti) who was missing for nearly a month, however

a group of horney sex and booze crazed young adults (Travis Van Winkle,
Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Ryan Hansan, Arlen Escarpeta, and
Juliana Guill) are having a weekend of fun at a secluded vacation house
nearby Camp Crystal Lake. But their ideal dream vacation turns into a
weekend of bloody horror once the disfigured maniac Jason who later
dons a hockey-mask begins to kill them one by one but who will survive
and will Clay find Whitney?
An exciting and thrilling reboot of the popular yet critically bashed Friday
The 13th series as it brings it back to it's roots. Director Marcus Naspiel
who directed the decent "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake in 2003 and
producers Sean S. Cunningham with Michael Bay brings the series on it's
feet again in a whole different way, it's not really a remake in the traditional
sense but a semi-remake/semi-sequel remix combine that pays tribute to
the first four movies of the series including using references to them. I
really like the concept of having the first four movies of the F13 series as
the basis for the film including a brief origin of Jason on how he became
the killer he is unlike what Rob Zombie's attempt at "Halloween" was but
making Jason a bit faster and meaner just like his human non-zombie
counterpart in parts 2 3 and Final Chapter. The film does have a playful
sense of self-referential humor about sex, drugs and alcohol this side of
"Scream" and has some good gory murders shown, it's nice to see the
series gets back on track and can't wait for the sequel.
This Blu-Ray offers brilliant picture and sound quality that skyrockets to the
roof on high definition. The Extras are quite nice with both an extended
killer cut and theatrical cut, additional scenes, The 7 best kills, two
featurettes and PIP Trivia-track including BD-Live exlusive extras.
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