His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
by Sean S. Cunningham, Daniel Farrands
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Actor: James Roday, Kane Hodder, Seth Green, Tom Savini, Travis Van WinkleDirector: Daniel Farrands, Sean S. Cunningham
Brand: ANCHOR BAY ENT.
Producer: Anthony Masi
Producer: Thommy Hutson
Producer: Blake Reigle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Product features:
- HIS NAME WAS JASON (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
DVD Review: his name was jason dvd review
Summary: 4 Stars
very interesting documentary for die hard fans!
Excellent item, fast packed, shiped with all others, good deal! Thank you, see you soon for more shop!
DVD Review: INTERESTING LOOK INTO THE FRIDAY THE 13TH SERIES!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a fan of Jason even if the films his films haven't really captured the potential of this iconic fiend. This 2 discs set gives some insight why some of the films weren't as good as they should have been along with some trivia tid bits and facts. The two disc set is loaded with documentaries, short films from fans and interviews with cast members include all the actors who have played Jason Voorhees.
I enjoyed this set and for fans of the franchise this is a no brainer, but I wouldn't pay too much for it. I found this for $5.00!
DVD Review: An In-Depth Look at the F13 Franchise
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a documentary that chronicles thirty years of Friday the 13th. It has the cast, directors, writers, and journalists all talking discussing respective films they were in, helped create, or were inspired by and are sandwiched between clips of the films being discussed at the time. It gives you an idea of what it was like behind the scenes as stories are told about difficulties during a particular scene or film, how the idea for something originally came to fruition, to what they did in between takes, actors getting sick during particular scenes, etc. Spanning twelve films and three decades, this is a must own for any Friday the 13th fan.
I heard this isn't really anything new for the die hard F13 fans as it's basically a video version of Peter Bracke's Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th book. Since I hadn't read the book, this was mostly new material for me. As informative and excellent as the documentary is, the extras are what most fans have been raving about. The second disc is filled with a lot of segments they only touched on in the full-length documentary along with a lot of other goodies including interviews with writers and directors, fan films, discussions about plotholes, bad acting, etc, Joseph Zito and Eric Anderson walking you through the house they used in The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th in four minutes, a panel at Comic-Con, a survival guide to surviving Camp Blood, and more. There are several hours worth of material on the second disc and really make this an excellent addition to any fan of the franchise.
Rating - 8/10
DVD Review: More of a Fluff Piece Than Anything
Summary: 3 Stars
I really enjoyed "His Name Was Jason", let me state that right up front. As a child of the 80's I grew up going to the "Friday" films with my brother, and still watch the franchise on DVD regularly. With that said, I was hoping for a little more from this documentary.
The main attraction of this 2 disk set is the 90 minute documentary which brings back cast and crew of the various films to discuss each entry. Also invited along for the trip are some head-scratchingly unrelated "celebrities" like Seth Green of "Robot Chicken" and some guy from the TV show "Psych"?? Not quite sure why they would be considered an "authority" on "Friday the 13th".
Basically, Tom Savini introduces several topics while walking through a faux Crystal Lake setting, and various cast and crew members chime in with their thoughts on the various topics. (It's fun watching some of these folks take themselves and their parts in the films way too seriously!!) For the most part it's a fun little trip, and serves better as a "where are they now" sort of thing. I loved seeing Amy Steel, Betsy Palmer, Kane Hodder and other series favorites again. But to be honest, if you are looking for an in-depth, behind the scenes documentary, you won't really find it here. The film is fun, and if it were included as an extra in the upcoming release of the 2009 "Friday the 13th" DVD, it would have been perfect. But when you are paying more for a documentary on a film series than you would for a DVD entry of the series itself it seems a bit odd?
If you are a huge "Friday" fan, I recommend you at least rent "His Name was Jason", it's a fun quick look at the series. But I HIGHLY recommend Peter Bracke's "Crystal Lake Memories" hardcover book. Bracke's book goes into much greater detail on each of the films from the original through "Freddy vs. Jason", extensive interviews with cast and crew, as well as studio heads, critics and fans. Maybe if I hadn't read "Memories" first I would have been more thrilled with "His Name Was Jason", but when the series was so captivatingly captured as it was in "Crystal Lake Memories", it's tough for anything to compete.
DVD Review: A Must have for Friday fans
Summary: 4 Stars
I was totally psyched when I read that Anchor Bay had compiled a 2 disc set that covered the Friday the 13th series.And I'm a huge 80's horror fan being that I grew up in that era.And Tom Savini is one of my all time favorite special effects guru's and he was the host ! So I am glad to report that the His Name Was Jason set is well worth the time and money spent.If you are a huge mark for the series like myself it gives you some great insights into the origin of the series.Granted if you've read any of the books about the series then you know a lot of this anyhow.But you also get to hear from every films director sans two(Steve Miner and Ronnie Yu )and the series mastermind Sean Cunnigham.There's interviews with a lot of the films victims and heroines such as Adrienne King,Amy Steel and Lar Park Lincoln.Insight from other horror writers and website operators like Uncle Creepy(who's funny as hell btw) from Dread Central and interviews with all the Jason's not just Kane Hodder.What's missing besides Yu and Miner are the "name stars" like Kevin Bacon,Crispin Glover and Corey Feldman.They also push the rebooted,retooled,reimagined whatever you want to call it Friday the 13th that was just released and did surprisingly well at the box office.Being a purist that frowns upon all these pointless remakes that have littered the screen this decade I don't care to see it.But if you want to learn a lot about a much maligned series of 12 films(and rightfully so in some cases like all the New Line Cinema films) then you owe it to yourself to watch this dvd set you will not be disappointed.
Description of His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees has carved his place into American pop culture and is one of the most recognizable cinematic killer in horror history. Now nearly, 30 years later, see how it all happened! With over 100 interviews with cast and crew, behind the scenes footage and dozen of film clips spanning the entire Friday the 13th series leading up to the 2/13/09 remake, there is no better way to get up close and personal with one of the most feared icons of our generation. Shut off the lights, lock up the cabin and get ready to learn all about a boy... His Name Was Jason.HIS NAME WAS JASON: 30 YEARS OF FRIDAY THE 13TH is a two disc set loaded with over 4 hours of bonus material. This film is a behind the scenes look at the franchise that broke horror box office records and made Jason a pop culture icon. With over 80 interviews from the cast and crew of the Friday the 13th film franchise, including the new Friday the 13th film, these firsthand accounts of never-before-told stories and rare behind the scenes photographs offer the ultimate look at the history of FRIDAY THE 13TH!
"Jason has no expiration date," as someone observes in the exhaustive His Name was Jason, a touch-all-the-bases approach to chronicling horror's blankest killer. Yep, it's all too true. Timed to mark the 30th anniversary of the Friday the 13th franchise, but probably more to serve as publicity for the 2009 remake, His Name was Jason is a two-disc set containing the 90-minute title doc plus a bevy of shorter, themed extras. Jason gives a quick run-through of all the Friday the 13th installments, filled out with detailed analysis of Jason as a cultural phenomenon and copious memories from the various casts and crew. (The better-known actors who have passed through the series--namely Kevin Bacon, Corey Feldman, and Crispin Glover--aren't around for interviews.) Special-effects gore maestro Tom Savini's wry delivery guides us through the story, with a few newly-staged murders along the way. Extensive clips are used to illustrate the grisly single-mindedness of Jason's killing, and various directors, including franchise guru Sean S. Cunningham, weigh in on the heaviness of guiding the various episodes. It all seems surreally weird, in the light of the movies' general lousiness and the trashy elevation of the empty-vessel killer to icon status. The 90-minute documentary is just the beginning, it turns out: fans can delve deep into the nuances of life (and death) at Crystal Lake. A 45-minute featurette on the actors who played Jason fills out disc one, and a plethora of other shorts (most of them culled from the same interview sessions, this time without the supporting clips) crowd disc two. There's another hour and 20 minutes of stories from directors, and 30 minutes of screenwriter anecdotes. "Dragged from the Lake" gives light to some amusing discrepancies in the series, as well as detailing actress Adrienne King's horrifying experience with a stalker. Fourteen minutes of fan films give parodistic views of the Jason experience, and "Friday the 13th in 4 minutes" gives a tongue-in-cheek shorthand account of the entire saga. Director Joseph Zito and actor Erich Anderson re-visit the set of The Final Chapter, and actress Gloria Charles takes a tour of the deadly barn from Part 3. Shorter extras include a 5-minute Crystal Lake survival guide (i.e., interviewees reciting the worst mistakes you can make while in proximity to Jason), a quick trip to a Comic-Con, and a tour of Universal Studio's Friday the 13th horror house. Things round off with a funny bogus ad for the law offices of a character from Part 3, Shelly Finkelstein, the kid that introduced the hockey mask into the series. It's a lot of effort for a low point in horror history. --Robert Horton
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