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With the release of the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street fast approaching, Daniel Farrands brings us his latest exposition focusing on the guy who.s kept millions awake at night, Freddy Krueger. Farrands teamed up with Dread Central.s Andrew Kasch to put together Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, a feature-length documentary about the iconic horror movie franchise. Farrands knows what he.s doing when it comes to revisiting the best in slasher series. One of his first directorial gigs was actually a mockumentary about Jason Voorhees called The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited. The piece was separated into three parts and included on the new deluxe edition DVDs of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. He is also responsible for the well-received documentary His Name Was Jason: 30 Years...

Cast and crew members of the Friday the 13th films gathered in Los Angeles last night to celebrate the release of Parts IV-vi on DVD in all-new Deluxe Edition DVDs. Barney Cohen, screenwriter of The Final Chapter, Shavar Ross, "Reggie" from Part V, Camilla and Carey More, "Terri" and "Tina" from The Final Chapter, composer Harry Manfredini, David Kagen, "Sheriff Garris" from Part VI, and Larry Zerner, "Shelly" from Part 3, showed up at The Bungalow Club for a screening of DVD special features and talk to select members of the press.

Following a cocktail reception where fans and press met with members of the cast and crew, DVD producer Dan Farrands formally greeted attendees and introduced the screening of bonus materials, the centerpiece of which is a multi-part featurette titled "The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited."Filed under: Horror, Fandom

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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning gets a bad rap from series loyalists. If you don’t know anything about it, I won’t spoil it, but there are certain aspects of it that irk people immensely. The major criticism the film gets doesn’t really bother me at all, but I still don’t enjoy the film. It’s a slow, murky and very mean-spirited film that doesn’t really fit in with the series all that well. Gone is the brutal but fun-loving spirit of The Final Chapter and the action movie bonanza of the later entries is nowhere in sight. What we’re left with is a black sheep and, for what it is, it just doesn’t work all that well. It’s a cruel movie with unlikeable characters and unwarranted deaths, and it just can’t pull that combo off like some of...

Every slasher fan has their own choice as the best in the original Jason Voorhees film series, and mine is Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. From its opening title that winks at the James Bond flicks, this entry provided a welcome sense of knowing humor to the by-then repetitious proceedings, without making fun of Jason himself. (As writer/director Tom McLoughlin has often stated, and does so again on the new Deluxe Edition DVD, that was one of franchise producer Frank Mancuso Jr.’s directives when McLoughlin took this gig.)

Those light touches, and the general panache McLoughlin brings to the film, were a refreshing change from the crudities of the previous A New Beginning (which doesn’t actually sport a Part V on screen—and, as mentioned on its own Deluxe disc, was actually called Repetition during filming). Director/co-writer Danny Steinmann does bring a rude energy to this entry,...

Paramount Home Entertainment today released the specs for the upcoming re-releases of their Friday the 13th films. What made it? What didn't? What's coming? Find out inside!

The heads-up went to Fangoria:

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

• Audio commentary by director Joseph Zito, screenwriter Barney Cohen and editor Joel Goodman

• Fan commentary by Adam Green and Joe Lynch

• Slashed scenes

• The Lost Ending

• Jason’s Unlucky Day: 25 Years After Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

• Lost Tales from Camp Blood—Part 4

• The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited—Part I

• Jimmy’s Dead Dance Moves

• Original theatrical trailer

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

• Audio commentary by director/co-screenwriter Danny Steinmann with cast and crew

• New Beginnings: The Making-of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

• Lost Tales from Camp Blood—Part 5

• The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited—Part II

• Original theatrical trailer

Friday the 13th Part...