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List Price: $49.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 18143
Released: February 10, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 10-FEB-2009
Media Type: DVD
Description of Friday the 13th the Series: The Second Season:
Here's something to scream about: Friday the 13th's second season is even better than the first, with more hell to pay as Micki (Robey) and Ryan (John D. LeMay), proprietors of the Curious Goods antiquities shop, race against time to reclaim the cursed objects sold to an unsuspecting public by their late Uncle Jack. The macabre fun of this Canadian horror anthology series--related to the slasher film franchise in name only--is that it cloaks even the most innocent objects with a palpable sense of dread. In "And Now the News," an unscrupulous doctor uses an old radio to scare sanitarium patients to death. In "The Playhouse," abused siblings placate their sanctuary by sacrificing neighborhood children to it. In "Read My Lips," a boutonniere brings a ventriloquist's dummy to knife-wielding life. This is one of the season's best episodes, with scary Billy Drago (Frank Nitti in Brian DePalma's The Untouchables) as the obsessed ventriloquist, and the great John Byner as a struggling entertainer, whose own dummy gives new meaning to the show business cliché, "Death is easy, comedy is hard." The episode, "Wedding Bell Blues" introduces Steve Monarque as the streetwise, cocksure Johnny Ventura, whom Ryan recruits to help locate a cursed billiards cue that racks up several murders while giving its owner wicked skills at pool (which starts with P and that rhymes with T and that stands for terror). Johnny returns in "The Prisoner," in which he is falsely convicted of killing his father. He will be become a series regular in the show's third, and final, season. A series benchmark is "Tails I Win, Heads You Die," in which Micki falls victim to a coin used by a Satanic cult leader in a plot to resurrect mummified witches. With its compelling stories, grislier violence, and quality kills, Friday the 13th's sophomore season elevated a guilty pleasure into a superior creepshow. --Donald Liebenson
Friday the 13th the Series: The Second Season Reviews:
Curious Goods Revisited 
2009-09-01 - It's been ages since I last saw this great little horror series on TV, but the entertainment value still holds up on a DVD format. It's a shame that the "Lewis Vendredi pact with the devil" introduction to each episode was omitted, along with any interesting bonus materials for this re-release.
The premise of recovering cursed antique's is a clever one, and the 1989 special effects are still very effective for supporting the story line.
The price for one entire season was reasonable, and the picture quality acceptable.
I would recommend this product and will probably buy the other two seasons.
Awesome Series-Crappy DVD Transfer 
2009-08-02 - This has got to be the worst case of dvd transfer i have ever seen in my life!! the picture quality is equal to a dvd you would find at a dollar store, luckily this is the only set i picked up and certainly wouldn't buy the others.
my best show 
2009-07-19 - I liked this show it was realy good. A good supernatural show.Lots of action and suspence.
great!
2009-07-15 - Those cursed objects are back in this second seson on DVD. I loved this show when it first came out and still do. A camera, a tri-lens recorder, a pocketwatch, a pool cue, a coin and a dollhouse are among the objects this time as the trio does business with the devil. I was obsessed with the show and you will be too. Anyone interested in '80s tv might want to give this a try. I'm glad I ordered it. The episodes were very well made.
For Those Complaining about Video Quality
2009-05-14 - The reason the show looks the way it does is because of the era. Many shows in the '80s were shot on film and then edited on videotape, which gives it that fuzzy look. It's a lot easier to restore film than video. It's sad it looks this way, but that's just the way it is. Some of you have mentioned that Twin Peaks is amazing restoration - that's because it was shot and edited on film.
I wish the show looked better, but I'm still happy to have them, especially since I never thought Paramount would release them. Be honest: Did you ever think this would be released?
