Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Ultimate Edition DVD Collection) Review
More than half of these movies I first saw at a local drive-in movie theater when me and some friends got small cans of margarita mix, some snacks, and had a blast laughing most of the time. Now I dont have to leave the house, and I still laugh. Who needs boring talk and endless extras when this movie set cuts (CUTS??) to the chase with the main arena in a long line of typical laughable folk in absolute harms way. This movie line cannot be too bad when the first movie presents the beginning of the terror with the realization that it is the mother who actually started it all, and the rest to follow is nothing more than a series of a grotesque on revenge for his mother's assasination. Though I basicallly gave up drinking (and what not), this great easy to put on the tube discs run the gamut of what made me tick in the drive-in movie 80s, and well worth the fondest of memories. Now wasnt that sentimental, AWWWwwwwww. Slash!!!!!
Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Ultimate Edition DVD Collection) Overview
A collection of the first eight feature films about a diabolical killer who wears a hockey mask.
Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 8-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Ultimate Edition DVD Collection) Specifications
Five discs gather the first eight movies in the Friday the 13th series, plus a batch of behind-the-scenes featurettes. You can track the rise, fall, and endless resurrections of Jason Voorhees, from the original 1980 film to Jason's self-kidding trip to the Big Apple. Horror fans eat up packages such as this, but there's something odd about the deluxe treatment for a series that spotlighted atrocious acting, pitiful production values, and inane storytelling.
You'll spot a few future "name" actors in various installments: Kevin Bacon is morbidly dispatched in the first one. But in general, the dominant focus is how to kill horny teenagers, most of whom have gathered at Camp Crystal Lake in the misguided belief that the curse of the impossible-to-kill Jason has worn off. The first movie has a certain raw, crummy ability to shock, Part 2 is a dismal retread, and Part 3 actually features interesting use of 3-D, which doesn't translate to its flat DVD version. The fourth is boldly subtitled The Final Chapter, and we all know where that went, but it does have Crispin Glover doing a funky dance. A New Beginning and Jason Lives continue Jason's bad mood, maybe because the hockey mask doesn't fit right. The seventh chapter, The New Blood, stakes Jason against a worthy opponent (Crystal Lake's answer to telekinetic Carrie), but the result is the same. Part 8's subtitle, Jason Takes Manhattan, is wittier than the movie itself, as Jason menaces an unlucky cruise ship of high-schoolers bound for New York--where Mr. J fits right in.
Some of the films come with commentaries from directors or cast members, including heralded Jason performer Kane Hodder. Brief documentaries (ranging from five to 15 minutes) cover separate installments with amusing anecdotes, including interviews with Sean S. Cunningham, Tom Savini, and various actors. In another doc, actors speak of the fraternity of young actors who've been slaughtered by Jason over the years. A deleted-scenes section is skimpy and not very interesting, while the tricks of special-effects gore merit a film to themselves. It's a customer-savvy DVD box, even if the effect of watching a bunch of this stuff together is a little dispiriting. --Robert Horton
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