Paramount truly are quite rude, sluggish, and contemptable. Everything about this ‘Ultimate’ release screams “cheap-a$$” quite loudly. And here’s why.

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I mediate it is forgiveable that Paramount didn’t perceive fit to release these movies in their uncut forms. It would lose them money in some circles if this boxset were to not be stocked in Blockbuster. So for this release, uncut death scenes have been prepared.

Here are the catches, and they are quite significant: 1) gore footage for the unusual Friday the 13th and Fraction 6 are presented in horizontal SPLIT SCREENS alongside the R-rated versions. That’s moral, Jason fans- it’s squeezed into only HALF the mask spot. That’s 2 out of 3 movies. 2) The gore footage from Fraction 7 looks quite awful, in a very rough made-for-video map in which the age shows a lot of wear and creep. There’s bonus footage here as well from Fraction 4, but it’s made-for-tv deleted scenes that don’t include any gore.

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Also, remember when Paramount set aside out the first Friday on DVD? You could finally leer Annie’s throat-slitting in it’s entirety. Well, Paramount’s decided to lop that assist out. So that means if you ever want to gaze it again, you have to rob the novel on DVD separately. Which I’ll be doing, you can bet.

Here are some other things you might like to know. The area contains 4 discs of movies. Each disc has 2 movies on each disc side. I’m sorry, but my DVD players freeze erratically whenever a disc has more than 3 hours and 10 minutes of stuff on them. 20th Century Fox released The Family Guy TV seasons in these very slim single cases- why didn’t Paramount have this brainstorm too?! That device, we could come by 1 movie a disc, like we deserve. At least that would point to Paramount opinion about someone else.

The 1 Bonus Disc contains a few truly bogus featurettes. Paramount didn’t even catch half the cast members that would have been willing to do interviews and commentaries. They impartial had some people go off to a convention 1 year and rep a mere handful of people there on camera. They neglected to keep wretchedness into contacting actresses Kimberly Beck and Melanie Kinnamon, who have been very outspoken about their enthusiasm onset and their appreciation for the series fans. Also, director Steve Miner is absent from participation on the featurettes or commentaries. Yet he’s been on bonus features for the House, Halloween H20, and Last House on the Left DVDs. So sorry, I don’t lift that he didn’t want to participate here.

The only trusty work Paramount did here was on the commentaries. The commentaries for only 4 movies. The directors of Friday the 13th’s 6, 7, and 8 do commentaries. Jason actor Kane Hodder joins the director on Piece 7, and the cast of Fraction 3 do a commentary. But there’s yet another glean! These commentaries – at least the one I heard for Portion 3, have the worst sound quality I’ve heard from a enormous studio commentary since John Waters track for the Cecil B Demented DVD. And even that was less TIN-can sounding than this.

This boxset is the biggest insult to fans of this series. And even at $57, this is overpriced. I bustle everyone here to pay attention to the rumors I’m hearing about future re-re-releasing of these movies on yet another boxset or individual uncut releases. At the very least people, don’t catch this until you hear it’s about to go out of print. The Star Wars boxset is worth more than this.

Fans have been begging Paramount for years to release the unrated and uncut Friday the 13th films. The “Blockbuster and Wal-Mart won’t sell them” excuse I’ve heard, here and there, is patently unfounded. Both Blockbuster and Wal-Mart sell and rent unrated films (call either of them up and ask if they carry the unrated edition of “Poor Santa,” if you need proof) . They simply don’t sell or rent NC-17 movies.

So what’s Paramount’s excuse? No input from the Directors of the films? Nope, that’s not it. John Carl Buechler, director of Friday the 13th Fragment VII has openly campaigned for an unrated version to be released (so fans can finally inspect “the unique BLOOD”) . Tom McLoughlin, director of Friday the 13th Share VI, told me directly that he has contacted Paramount, letting them know that he would be willing to do a director’s commentary AND re-edit an unrated Director’s Gash of Jason Lives. The studio didn’t steal him up on his offer to design an unrated Director’s cleave (he does provide commentary on fraction VI) . If this box space is any indication, they never will. Kane Hodder, Jason in Paramount’s F13 6, 7 and 8 has been screaming for unrated and uncut versions, and has expressed a desire to do commentary for each of the films (including the ones he didn’t star in) . So why, at the very least, isn’t there commentary on EVERY disc? I suspect it’s because Paramount wanted to cram two movies onto each disc, leaving no site for commentary or other considerable extras on some of the films (and giving a compressed recount, that isn’t grand better than what you rep on video) .

Why aren’t the films uncut and unrated? Because Paramount is too stubborn to release them that device. It has been known for years that Paramount has been “ashamed” of this series. They don’t derive what it is that makes the movies enormous, and therefore contemplate they can give fans bargain bin box sets like this, rather than presenting them with the quality box area the Friday the 13th films DESERVE.

This should have been a 16 disc location. Each film should have had 2 discs, one featuring the unrated version, the other the theatrical version. There should have been commentary on the unrated version (disc 1) for the movie, and extras on the rated version (disc 2) . It’s a shame that Paramount won’t sell the entire series to Novel Line, a studio who has expressed interest in doing a comprehensive box area, which would include the long sought after uncut films.

If Modern Line’s Freddy vs. Jason wouldn’t have been the hit it was, fans wouldn’t even be getting this box plot. Then again, they wouldn’t have been missing distinguished. Fans should let Paramount know what they mediate, by voting with their dollars. Until we earn the box location we deserve, after we made these movies the large hits that they were (most of them), and stuck with the series through thick and thin, we should reject this lame offering by Paramount and acquire out for something better.

Paramount should be proud of this series. They should embrace it. They should never be ashamed of the 8 films they distributed. The only thing Paramount needs to be ashamed of is this quickie box situation made to milk more cash from diehard Friday fans, at Halloween time. While I’ll forever esteem the films, I cannot say anything nice about this plot. It is easily the most poorly assign together major DVD release I’ve ever seen. It’s a disgrace. Not even the bloodiest uncut scenes could be as disgusting as Paramount’s lackluster treatment of the Friday fans who have made the studio filthy rich, over the years.

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