Friday The 13th Complete 1-8 Box Set [DVD]

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This is not a highly polished film, and I remember being blown away when I watched it on Blu-ray several years ago. The included hard cover booklet which doubles as a DVD carrier for the eight film set is another major plus for those fans that plan to spend the money to get Paramount's updated box set release. Tom McLoughlin directs Thom Matthews as Jarvis, and the battle-worn character decides it is finally time to sever ties with Jason. However, for those completest fans who yearn for everything Friday the 13th, this new box set is nothing to scoff at.

DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack is appropriately boisterous, with gunfire that erupts from the surround speakers and some nice LFE support during Jason's reappearance. Released less than a year after the original, Part II saw Steve Miner take over the director's chair. Instead of setting 2/3 or more of the film in the city, most of the action actually takes place aboard a small cruise ship, where a high school class is celebrating its upcoming graduation. It seems to me that the manufacturers may have been using the wrong packaging, possibly for the US version; although the movies do come in mini cases, 2 to a case as mentioned by others, there is no claim on any of them past F13 Part 1 to have any commentaries. Also included are The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Part VI (14:42/SD); Lost Tales From Camp Blood - Part 6 (7:17/HD); The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited, Part III (9:36/HD); Jason Lives: The Making of Friday the 13th Part VI (12:57/HD); Meeting Mr.The film begins in 1980 with Pamela Voorhees (Nana Visitor) attempting to murder her last female victim in a bid to avenge her son Jason (Derek Mears)'s death. Only a few survivors reach New York, where the bloody rampage spills into the gritty streets and subways of Manhattan in a deadly game of hide-and-seek – leading to a toxic confrontation with Jason for one final time. The film has a soft, somewhat blurry appearance during many scenes and I'm not sure how much is due to the filmmakers and how much is the fault of this transfer. Again, no theatrical trailer, which is a shame, because I seem to remember this one having a somewhat amusing trailer. Friday the 13th: The Ultimate Collection is the first compiled box set of special edition DVDs that were initially released separately in 2009, so I wouldn’t advise a repurchase unless you absolutely must have the hockey mask replica that’s been included.

But, I think there’s another, somewhat subtler, appeal to the series that’s actually enhanced by their general ineptitude: Jason, more so than any of the other 1980s monsters, is explicitly working class. That film was stuck in development hell for years, and Cunningham and director James Isaac swooped in with a pitch for New Line Cinema CEO Bob Shaye that sent Jason to space.AVC-encoded transfer that is occasionally a bit too dark, with crushing shadows and murky backgrounds. But Friday the 13th, the series that features Jason, that ghoulish unstoppable colossus, as he dispatches with teens for increasingly remote reasons, was creatively bankrupt from the very first installment, which was released in theaters in 1980 in a transparent attempt to cash in on the stunning success of Halloween a few years earlier.