Two cuts of the film, the Theatrical Cut (97 mins) and the extended Killer Cut (105 mins)
Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
Limited edition Greetings from Crystal Lake Postcard
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Matt Konopka and Alexandra West
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
DISC ONE: THEATRICAL CUT
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the Theatrical Cut
Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary by director Marcus Nispel
Brand new audio commentary by writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
Brand new interview with director Marcus Nispel
Brand new interview with writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
Brand new interview with cinematographer Daniel Pearl
A Killer New Beginning, an exclusive video essay about why horror fans shouldn’t fear remakes, what 2009’s Friday the 13th remake gets right, and why the film serves as a perfect template for future franchise remakes by film critic Matt Donato
Excerpts from the Terror Trivia Track
The Rebirth of Jason Voorhees archival featurette
Hacking Back / Slashing Forward archival featurette
The 7 Best Kills archival featurette
Deleted scenes
Original teaser, trailer and TV spots
Electronic press kit
Image gallery
DISC TWO: KILLER CUT
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the Killer Cut
Original 5.1 DTSHD Master Audio sound
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
A Killer New Beginning, an exclusive video essay about why horror fans shouldn’t fear remakes, what 2009’s Friday the 13th remake gets right, and why the film serves as a perfect template for future franchise remakes by film critic Matt Donato
Brand new audio commentary by director Marcus Nispel
Brand new audio commentary by writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
Brand new interview with director Marcus Nispel
Brand new interview with writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
They needed to record 2 new interviews after recording 2 new commentaries? Curious to know what they are going to talk about in the interviews that wouldn't have been mentioned in the commentaries.
yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 1:51 pmA Killer New Beginning, an exclusive video essay about why horror fans shouldn’t fear remakes, what 2009’s Friday the 13th remake gets right, and why the film serves as a perfect template for future franchise remakes by film critic Matt Donato
This reminds me of Scott Derickson's tweets about why people shouldn't jump on saying this or that remake is a bad thing, which, obviously, has nothing to do with his own filmography's originality.
It’s hard to imagine even Friday the 13th aficionados getting excited for this, it’s such a bland, forgettable movie. It’s like the filmmakers forgot that slashers are supposed to be fun, so they filmed it with the raw, glinting harshness of torture porn, a mistake they repeated with the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Both remakes seem to’ve killed their respective franchises even as Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Hellraiser are going strong. But hey, now people can rediscover all the grim, poorly lit violence on UHD.
It's a shitty horror film, so there are going to be bounds of people excited for this. If the garbage that VS releases can sell out in droves, then this will definitely find an audience. Especially for a film that's easily one of the most recognizable horror franchises.
I always found Friday the 13th the dullest of all the major horror franchises but was intrigued by the Bryan Fuller prequel TV series with Charlize Theron as Mrs. Vorhees, possibly the biggest casting upgrade ever. Unfortunately it fell apart a couple of months ago due to the usual creative differences.
On a related note, I plan check out In a Violent Nature this week, which has been described as "what if Terrence Malick made a Friday the 13th movie"
The Curious Sofa wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:14 am
On a related note, I plan check out In a Violent Nature this week, which has been described as "what if Terrence Malick made a Friday the 13th movie"
...and it was very good, though having seen it, it's more Gus Van Sant/Bela Tarr than Terrence Malick. Considering it's a deconstruction of a Friday the 13th type slasher under the influence of slow cinema I found it way more nightmarish and scary than any Friday the 13th movie. The kills are the most gnarly since Terrifier 2 and there is a scene reminiscent of the most memorable scene from Friday the 13th 2009 which should please it's fans (or rather it's one fan). Best horror movie of the year so far.
love this film, which makes a lot more sense after viewing Nispel's other movies regarding men living outside of civilised life, who show a mastery of their environment to pick off trespassers/invaders/other villains. I was thinking about Jason's strategic placement of a hatchet, which he takes, and throws at one of the more athletic victims, one whom he would be physically un able to catch. Nispel avoids spatial coherence, likely to capture the confusion of the characters being dispatched with blurry images. Only Jason is spatially oriented.
makes an asset of Daniel Pearl's incredibly layered and textured cinematography, cluttered with junk, discards of civilisation, with nature overgrowing it. weeds through a broken TV, even an upended bus with trees growing through it hiding a subterranean passageway.
the film works a lot better after you've seen the best of the F13 films (1, 2, 4 and 6, minimum). it engages with the notion that people and objects are interchangeable, something that has persisted through the franchise (people nailed to doors, etc) with incredible rigour: check out characters interacting with objects, Nispel taking things further, with characters even speaking to them; and check out how Nispel takes away their narrative agency by framing them behind such objects and mise en scene - before they are dispatched by Jason. the moron saying "I love you" to the weed being cultivated, kneeling down, Nispel framing him behind a tree, subsuming him to objects and environment, and only then having him dispatched. the black guy attempting to masturbate over a winter catalogue, the guy in the workshop licking a porno mag and talking to a sex doll - all of this is silly. but has some function. When Clay (Jared Padaleki) is asking the store worker if he can put flyers of his missing sister on the walls, the store assistant complements him on his knapsack ("where'd you find a knapsack like that?"), the same object that will gain prominence later on when Clay and his new friend hide from Jason. The backpack has been left in sifght. Jason drops a dead body and severed head. All are framed together, from the POV of the two hiding, and it is only the knapsack that is important, as it alerts the intruders to Jason. Objects are prioritised over people in narrative and framing.
there's a marvellous scene, when Travis van Winkle, the jerk of the film, gets his gun out in order to defend himself versus Jason. He hears a noise behind the door and shoots offscreen. He hits the body of Amber, impaled on a door by Jason. He looks inside, and cannot be sure whether Jason or he himself killed Amber. He almost certainly wasn't aware that Jason was upstairs. He offers a slightly guilty glance back, and closes the door on Amber, whom he had fucked in the film's highlight sex scene. Turning her into an afterthought and establishing his callousness. Good characterisation of a cretinous character, in a film that works remarkably well on its own terms.
as to Jason, a very formidable interpretation. certainly appears to be almost a match for Nispel's Pathfinder and Conan hack 'em up experts.
the existing Blu ray is an outdated one, too dark and with low audio. looking forward to the 4k being an exceptional upgrade. it can share shelf space with Nispel's CONAN UHD, a film I greatly admire. almost feels like what Stuart Gordon would have made for Charles Band if they had a big FX budget.
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Mr Sausage wrote: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:06 pm
What do you like about it?
I love how it kinda ties in as a remake of the first 4 original movies.
I think the opening 20 minutes is still the best 20 minutes of the whole franchise and the first time I watched it I was completely shocked.
It really feels like an early 00's remake movie.
There are so many funny moments in the film.
There are a lot of wonderful easter eggs laid in the film that pay off throughout the movie.
There are some great kills.
yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:00 pmThey needed to record 2 new interviews after recording 2 new commentaries? Curious to know what they are going to talk about in the interviews that wouldn't have been mentioned in the commentaries.
Not that they've necessarily gone down this route, but on Hidden City the BFI recorded a commentary and an interview with Stephen Poliakoff back to back in the same session, and at his request, because he knew that the commentary would be extremely scene-specific and he wanted to have the opportunity to have a more detailed discussion of wider contextual stuff like his early career, working in British cinema in the 1980s, and so on. We weren't set up for an on-camera interview, so we recorded it and I transcribed it into a first-person booklet piece.
I was very gratified to see that someone commented on the fact that there was no overlapping material between commentary and interview, because that was very much the intention!
Mr Sausage wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:13 pm
It’s hard to imagine even Friday the 13th aficionados getting excited for this, it’s such a bland, forgettable movie. It’s like the filmmakers forgot that slashers are supposed to be fun, so they filmed it with the raw, glinting harshness of torture porn, a mistake they repeated with the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Both remakes seem to’ve killed their respective franchises even as Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Hellraiser are going strong. But hey, now people can rediscover all the grim, poorly lit violence on UHD.
To be fair, the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise seems to have been hurt on ongoing legal battles between Victor Miller and Sean S. Cunnigham. There's a terrific video game that's due to be mothballed at the end of the year because of this.
