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List Price: $19.96 | | Label: Warner
Salesrank: 2645
Released: June 16, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
SEARCHING FOR A MISSING GIRL, A GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS STUMBLES ON THE CREAKY REMAINS OF ROTTING OLD CABINS IN THE EERIE WOODS OF LEGENDARY CRYSTAL LAKE, WHERE THEY ARE TERRORIZED BY THE INFAMOUS MACHETE-WIELDING JASON VOORHEES.
Description of Friday the 13th (Extended Killer Cut):
If you thought a bigger budget and an A-list producer (Michael Bay) would go to Jason's head, well, forget it. The indestructible villain of so many bottom-of-the-barrel shockers isn't about to change his shtick, and the 2009 Friday the 13th proves it. This, the umpteenth sequel (nope, it's 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 there's 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 film's Jason is quite the athletic fellow, and he's assembled an elaborate underground corpse-hiding lair in the vicinity of Crystal Lake. How he's been able to live down there for 30 years (if the film's own timeline is to be believed) and had enough unwitting campers pass by to keep himself entertained is anybody's guess. But if they keep coming, he'll keep slashing. --Robert Horton
Also on the disc
The extended Killer Cut is 106 minutes compared to 97 for the theatrical cut, and it's hard to imagine choosing to watch the theatrical cut if you have a choice. 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 you're squeamish you might not want those things, but if you're that squeamish you probably don't 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. There's also an 11-minute featurette on the new movie and three deleted scenes (a different version of Jason getting his mask, the police response to the phone call, and a revised climax). --David Horiuchi
Friday the 13th (Extended Killer Cut) Reviews:
So Sad You Can't Give A Zero Star Rating 
2009-12-20 - Because if you could this travesty would get it. Outside of indy flicks and and a couple of the big name directors like Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Len Wiseman, Neil Marshall, and James Cameron (those are off the top of my head, there are probably a few I forgot), there is zero talent in Hollywood now. The young actors of today stink, and are all interchangeable cardboard cutouts regardless of the movie, the direction is lame, and the movies are just disposable garbage. It's quite clear that zero imagination exists because they have to go back to the 80's, the period I was a teenager in, to get their ideas. There has not been one 80's remake in the past six or so years that had any business being remade, none of them. They are all awful. This movie is no exception. They don't make them like they used has never been more true.
I avoided it in the theaters, and sure as heck wouldn't spend my hard earned money on a DVD. Nope, I saw it on cable tv tonight for the first time and it was a waste of 97 minutes. Like all of these 80's slasher remakes, their greatest sin is how boring they are. The movies in the 80's hooked you and pinned you to the back of your seat in suspense. Your heart was racing as you braced for the next kill. Now, it's just a bunch of killing with zero suspense, and no characters you care about. It's a bad combo for a slasher flick. When one of them dies you're like, "okay, who's next, get on with it." They have substituted gore with suspense, as it's a cheap, easy way out rather than trying to make a good movie. Just throw as much gore up on the screen as possible and maybe the audience won't realize how terrible the film is. A big fail on that one.
I wish Hollywood would leave these movies alone instead of crapping all over their name. I realize they are trying to appeal to the ADD afflicted youth of today, but they would be far better off re-releasing the originals and sprucing up the film, just as George Lucas did with Star Wars in the late 90's (the new Star Wars movies were lame too, with one of the worst of the gen y actors in Hayden Christensen). This is a plea to you Michael Bay to leave these classics alone, because you are destroying their memory with your awful remakes. You and Rob Zombie need to go to 80's movie anonymous and break your addiction to 80's remakes. Don't wait, do it now!
Jason's Nightmare...To be 'Re-Imagined'...
2009-12-06 - I would rather have a axe to the skull than to sit through garbage like this. May Jason Vorhees rise from the undead and stalk and kill Micheal Bay for even releasing such a piece of crap on the public. If you wanna see a great slasher/horror flick, then seek out the 1980 "Friday the 13th", and/or the 1st two or three sequels (after "Part 5 they s**ked), but forget this turd even exists.
Micheal Bay is terrorfying enough without ruining great horror films. And, remakes are a travesty! Could you imagine books being rewritten by new authors every new decade? Or albums being re-recorded by new groups???! No way! So why do we allow films to be remade???!
Just say NO!
Thank you! ;o)
Perfect condition 
2009-12-03 - Seller is recommended and thank you for your fast service.
Bought this movie for a friend for a early x-mas gift and she liked it very much.
FRIDAY THE 13 KILLER CUT
2009-11-20 - THE MOVIE WAS GOOD THE GUY FROM SUPER NATURAL PLAYED IN IT I LIKED THE MOVIE
Another Remake That Falls Flat 
2009-11-17 - The first few original "Friday The 13th" films (before they started milking the cash cow with endless crappy sequels) were some of the scariest fare to ever come out of the horror genre. Building off the success of the original slasher film, "Halloween", this franchise created a character (in Jason Voorhees) that actually has an interesting backstory, making him even more terrifying. Those first five or so installments had everything a great horror movie needs: a decent plotline, a little skin, and some "jump out of your seat" moments. Plus, and this is not to be underestimated, they had that "early 80s movie" feel to them, as the camera work was very simple and the film quality wasn't pristine, only adding to the scare factor.
Sadly, though, this remake (directed by Marcus Nispel) fails to hit any of the hallmarks that the originals made famous. Perhaps the failure of Rob Zombie's "Halloween" remakes should have been a clue, but I guess viewers (once again) had to learn the hard way that some films just don't need to be remade. Basically, there are two ways to undertake these sorts of projects: Either a "re-make", which this tries to be, or a "re-boot" (like the latest Star Trek), which this film probably should have been but couldn't because of the iconic Jason character.
Besides matching the originals in the nudity department (and whether that is a positive feature is debatable!), this new version fails in every other regard. The story is completely ripped off from the original few flicks, there really are no great "jump moments" that can hold a candle to those done in the past, and the cinematography is actually too "clean and tidy"...there's no grittiness to it at all. Not helping matters is the fact that besides Jared Padalecki and Danielle Panabaker, who turn in fine acting performances, the rest of the cast is uninspiring in all their respective roles...nothing more than fodder to be eventually slashed by Jason.
Perhaps the biggest downfall of the entire film experience, though, is the fact that the Jason character is such an icon in the horror genre that there really is no way to either make him better or even match the original. Once again, it's kind of like the Halloween remake...people don't dress up to trick or treat like Zombie's Michael Myers. Instead, they are wearing the old William Shatner mold from the originals. The same concept can be applied to Jason...he terrified us with the tied bag over the head (and then the hockey mask) at first, so why would the exact same thing two decades later be any better?
Thus, about the only good thing I see coming from this film is the possibility that it may "inspire" a new audience to discover the great originals. However, it will more than likely drive potential fans away due to all its shortcomings.
