Paramount F13th Double Features

[CampNewBlood]

Anyone going to buy these next month? I am thinking about it just for the fact they are Friday the 13th films.....and the cover art is kinda cool.

[Brett H.]

No chance in hell.

[Lammert]

can someone post the coverart?

[Franchise]

http://www.amazon.com/Friday-13th-Part-Double-Feature/dp/B000PHX5NW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-3555222-8412811?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1184838928&sr=1-3

I only saw that one on the Amazon site.

[Titan]

There's no chance of me picking this up. It doesn't have anything new on it so it wouldn't be worth it for me.

[kramerfan]

Only if it had some cool extas or uncut but thats not happening so i wont be buying it.

[Wheatjedi]

The only way I would ever have this release would be if someone gave it to me. There's no way I'll buy it.

[Rich]

How many double features are there going to be? As far as I know there is only going to be the one for the first two.

can someone post the coverart?

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iM-NomvgL._AA240_.jpg

I wrote a review of this release on amazon. It is basically a review of the films together, not the actual disc release. It is not on the site yet, it may take a day to process. I wrote the review purposly the way I did so that it wouldn't spoil the story for anyone who may be new to these movies. Here it is:

Here we have the best two films in the legendary Friday the 13th series. One of the things that really make these movies work well is the scenes where the stalker lurks, stalks, and watches before he or she makes a kill. That plays on the juvenile fear that we all carry in our heads that there is something out there watching you. When you were a kid, your parents always used to tell you to be a good little boy or girl because Santa, The Easter Bunny, or God is watching. If you are bad you will not get a present or you will not go to heaven. The constant here of course is the idea of something watching you, and if you get out of line, there is a consequence. Perhaps, that is the best theme of all that is played out in these early Friday installments.

- Friday the 13th (1980) -

In 1957 a young boy drowns in Crystal Lake. In 1958 two young camp counselors are murdered by an unseen assassin. Years later Steve Christy is preparing Camp Crystal Lake for re-opening despite warnings of the superstitious locals of the “death curse.” It seems that as a result of the camp’s unexplainable dark history the locals suffer from a sort of mass hysteria by attributing unsolved crimes to some sort of ghost story. These new people should have listened to the warnings to stay away from the place the locals call “Camp Blood,” because on Friday the 13th 1980, there is a string of horrifying and grizzly murders ending in the beginning of an urban legend come to life.

- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) -

Five years after the events of the original film, Paul and Ginny are running a summer camp counselor training facility. This place is not exactly at Camp Crystal Lake, but it is on the same like, adjacent to the old (not condemned) murder site. The locals believe that Jason is out in the wilderness as some kind of monster. Some claim to have seen him. Others claim that he is just a legend, a ghost story for the campfire. This film puts the story into the urban legend context, putting the story on the same wave length as Big Foot or Loch Ness or The Jersey Devil.

For anyone who does not already own these two movies, you can’t beat the price for these two classics and the cover art is worth it alone.

[Lammert]

I'm glad that they used the original font and covers again.

[Jenosis]

Same disc that is in the boxset unless it's the single release discs? Either way, nothing new.

[CampNewBlood]

The websites claim it's 2-discs, but you never know.

[Darth Sinister]

Since I don't own the DVD's yet, I probably might just get this. I had once held out hope for a nice boxset, but I've long since realized that ain't happening.

[CampNewBlood]

If they are a reasonable price, I will prolly get them just to have them.

[Rich]

You keep saying them. There is only one double feature (the first two) coming out. Do you know something we don't?

[Joshg]

Wow. There's a Halloween II/Halloween III DF too! Funny,

[Franchise]

Yeah, it's cashing in on the re-imaging.

[CampNewBlood]

You keep saying them. There is only one double feature (the first two) coming out. Do you know something we don't?

THEM.....2 movies. Part 1 & 2. That's what I mean.

I guess I should say...I will prolly get IT. It....it is usually referred to as being 1.

Make of it what you will. :shifty:

And if I knew something you all didn't, I wouldn't beat around the bush...I would just come out and say it.

I WILL BUY THIS DOUBLE FEATURE RELEASE AND ANY SUBSEQUENT DOUBLE FEATURE RELEASE PARAMOUNT PICTURES RELEASES.

There, is that better?

[Joshg]

LOL, odd sub-convos always arise.

Two movies in one DVD case...I think I'd call that them, but, meh, what do I know?

[CampNewBlood]

LOL.....OMG.

Anyway, maybe Paramount will re-release 3-7 on double features too with the original cover art as these are.

[Rich]

LOL, odd sub-convos always arise.

Two movies in one DVD case...I think I'd call that them, but, meh, what do I know?

You would call it "it" because you are referring to one piece. You don't call the box set them, you call the box set "it" because it is one piece. :)

That is why, when CampNewBlood kept saying them, I though he was referring to "other" Friday double features that I didn't know about.

Not only is Halloween II and Halloween III being released as a double feature to cash in on the remake, Anchor Bay is re-issuing the restored edition with the original poster art on the front.

[CampNewBlood]

Now that we have the English lesson for today....I think I will speak the way I want to.

Thanks

[Autobotsdie]

But is it worth it and are they doing that for all of them?

[Rich]

Now that we have the English lesson for today....I think I will speak the way I want to.

Thanks

You are welcome. :D I wasn't trying to be an a**hole or anything. I wasjust explaining why I got confused.

But is it worth it

That is up to you. If you don't already have these two movies, it is a good deal $25 and you get the original cover art.

are they doing that for all of them

That is what I was confused about earlier. No, they are only making the first two into a double feature...for now at least. Who knows what will happen though.

[CampNewBlood]

LOL, odd sub-convos always arise.

Two movies in one DVD case...I think I'd call that them, but, meh, what do I know?

Yea me too JoshG.

[Autobotsdie]

It'll be sweet. 2 for the price of one.

[rpchurch]

Nice concept, if you don't already own them. I think this was done better with the MGM Midnite Double Feature Movies that were coming out awhile back. I wouldn't mind picking up Halloween II/III. Halloween II kind of sucks, but III is so bad it is great.

But, I wish Paramount would stop fucking around, and just put out a nice boxset. And by nice, I mean NOT the set that is out now. :D

[Rich]

Why was Halloween 3 "so bad it was great"? Halloween 3 was a great story and probably the best made sequel and scariest sequel too.

I remember those MGM double features. Honestly the Friday one is going to be the same as them. I have the MGM ones with Vincent Price staring in Edgar Allan Poe inspired movies. They are so awesome.

[Lammert]

Halloween 3 didn't make any sence, it was just a bad bad movie... even for being standalone.
I just don't buy the fake as hell story. Lucky for me I only watched it once way back in de early 90's.

[rpchurch]

Halloween 3 didn't make any sence, it was just a bad bad movie... even for being standalone.
I just don't buy the fake as hell story. Lucky for me I only watched it once way back in de early 90's.

Say what you will about Halloween III, but Challis and his mustache were the SHIT!!! Mustache rides are only 50 cents. Paging Dr. Challis.

[CampNewBlood]

I like Halloween III. Always have always will.

[Rich]

Halloween 3 made perfect sense. Of course the story was fake, it was a horror movie. It was no more fake then a guy who comes back to life in dreams or walking corpses. As a matter of fact it has much more to do with the day then a guy walking around in a William Shatner mask.

[CampNewBlood]

My thoughts exactly....but I love all of the Halloween films.

[rpchurch]

What I'd love to see, is more of the combo DVDs. Say, My Bloody Valentine with April Fool's Day or Happy Birthday to Me with Silent Night, Deadly Night.

[CampNewBlood]

The first 2 are possible since our favorite studio (sarcasm), Paramount, owns them but, Happy Birthday To Me is owned by Sony and Silent Night, Deadly Night is owned by Anchor Bay (Starz).

[Rich]

I just wonder if Paramount will be making the other three double features. I'm sure they will if the sales of this one saticfies them enough.

[The Dream Master]

And if they do, you just know they'll use the classic art for parts 5-8. Just watch.

I still won't buy them, though. Not until they're in an HD format, anyway.

[jackdeth]

I just wonder if Paramount will be making the other three double features. I'm sure they will if the sales of this one saticfies them enough.
If sales are good, I bet they will. It would make sense to anyway.

[Rich]

For what it is worth, it has nice packaging, and the back pictures don't give anything away on first time viewers for once.

http://images2.dvdempire.com/gen/movies/1324777h.jpg http://images2.dvdempire.com/gen/movies/1324777bh.jpg

[James M]

The pictures don't give anything away, but the Part 2 blurb kind of spoils Part 1, mentioning that Mrs. Voorhees murdered seven camp counselors.

On second though, you may or may not say the Part 2 picture does kind of give something away. I think the head on the altar was supposed to be a shocking surprise towards the end for first time viewers. Earlier in the film the cop sees something we don't (the shrine), and says "oh my god!" First timers would wonder what the cop saw, and then they are given the shocking answer when Ginny discovers the shrine.

[CampNewBlood]

That's pretty cool. I wanna get me one.

[jackdeth]

Nice cover, front and back. I won't buy it cause I already have these films on VHS and DVD several times over. But for someone new to the series... it's a no brainer. Still has Mono Audio... a good thing IMO. But I wonder what it would sound like in 5.1 or better?

[MaDMaNMaRz]

The packaging is definitely nice. But, seeing as how their aren't any special features, I won't be buying this.

[The New Blood]

Total waste of money IMO. I don't even understand why they are releasing this. The single discs and box set are readily available.

[Hockey Mask]

That is up to you. If you don't already have these two movies, it is a good deal $25 and you get the original cover art.

Probably a better deal to get the 1st 8 in a box set for less than $50.

[MaDMaNMaRz]

Probably a better deal to get the 1st 8 in a box set for less than $50.

But then again, somebody that's new to the series won't necessarily want to buy the box set. They would want to see at least one or two of them before buying the whole set.

This DF DVD set is basically targeted to the mainstream horror fans.

[The Dream Master]

The single disc editions of the first two films are out of print, but I don't really know how hard they are to find anymore. This set is pretty much aimed at that small percentage of the population who like the first couple of films but don't want to necessarily buy the set. Any hardcore fan already has the box set or the single disc editions (or both).

Also, the fact that this is only $13 really puts the growth of the DVD market into perspective, as I paid over twice that amount just to buy one Friday DVD when they first came out.

[kramerfan]

No uncut films or extras on these so i wont be buying it.

[Rich]

I saw this thing at K-Mart for $10. Now for anyone who is new to these movies, that is a steal!

[Darth Sinister]

The single disc editions of the first two films are out of print, but I don't really know how hard they are to find anymore. This set is pretty much aimed at that small percentage of the population who like the first couple of films but don't want to necessarily buy the set. Any hardcore fan already has the box set or the single disc editions (or both).

Also, the fact that this is only $13 really puts the growth of the DVD market into perspective, as I paid over twice that amount just to buy one Friday DVD when they first came out.

Bingo. It's not just Paramount doing this, but a lot of studios are putting out these types of features. Most are pairing films in a series together. Others are pairing a slightly more popular film with a box office bomb or a DTV feature.

[Rich]

Also, the fact that this is only $13 really puts the growth of the DVD market into perspective

I think the dvd market is going down not growing. Once upon a time Paramount was able to charge nearly $30 for one single movie on a barebones dvd. Today, they have to put two movies on a $10 dvd (at K-Mart) to sell it. Let's face it, most movies you have herd of have been on dvd more then once and I don't think most people are willing to buy movies as many times as we are. I barely am anymore.

his set is pretty much aimed at that small percentage of the population who like the first couple of films but don't want to necessarily buy the set

I think it is more aimed at people who are new to the series. There is no better introduction to the series then the first two films if you ask me. It is really just Paramount putting two popular horror films together for one low price for fast cash.

[The Dream Master]

But Rich, my point is that the DVD market has grown tremendously in the past few years. It might be dwindling a bit now, but the fact that you can now get two movies for about half of the price that one used to cost shows that the market's a lot bigger now than it was in 2000. No matter how much the market starts to dwindle, it'll never again be the niche product that it was from about '97-2000.

[BlakeTyner]

That's very true. I can recall that, during that time period, Blockbuster had one section for all DVDs - it was about three shelf units, while the rest of the store was still VHS. When I went in and saw that they'd completely gotten rid of VHS, and all the new releases and classics were DVD, I knew it had finally gone past niche.

~Blake

[The Dream Master]

I remember that too, Blake. I'm kind of going through the same thing all over again already with Blu-ray, as one of my local stores has about six shelves worth of titles. I doubt the whole store will ever go Blu, though--I think that format's destined to be a niche product for a long, long time.

Interestingly enough, Friday the 13th was the first DVD I ever rented from Blockbuster (way back when I watched DVDs on my computer). It was scratched all to fuck, though, and didn't play all the way through. That's when I decided to go buy my own copy.

[Darth Sinister]

Hey, for someone like me, it's all good. I've gotten DVD's of a lot of films over the last two years. More so than I had when I first got a DVD player back in 03. And if I can get two movies for ten bucks or three movies for fifteen, I'm going for it.

[The Dream Master]

I've got no problem with DVD prices coming down, even if I did get burned by essentially paying pretty much $200 to get all the Paramount Fridays once they were actually released.

I've been buying DVDs regularly since '99, but I've really been buying a lot more the past few years especially because of the steadily declining prices.

[Rich]

I don't have a problem with them coming down either, however, what those price drops mean is that dvd is an aging format and will probably be absolete soon enough. I hope movies don't become like video games where they release new technology every couple of years, because who can afford to keep up with that?

[Darth Sinister]

Well, the VCR hung in there for a long time, despite Laser Disc. And I think it's been ten years, last year, since DVD began. But you do have a point, it could easily turn into a video game console situation.

[The Dream Master]

I think the high def formats are the next laserdisc, and that's not so bad, really. Don't get me wrong, I hope one of them (more than likely BD at this point) take off and go mainstream, but as long as there are enough quality titles out there, I'll be happy.

[Rich]

DVDs may have been around for 10 years, but for their first few years, the technology was out of the average person's (like me) price range. So, although the technology was out 11 years, most people haven't had it that long.

[jackdeth]

I got a High Def TV, but no Blue-ray, or HD DVD's to go along with it. I'm very happy with the standard-dvd we've had for the past 10 years. TV channels look good in HD, but that's as far as I'm willing to go with HD at the moment. I really don't see myself upgrading unless I'm forced to do so. I only got an HD TV cause the old TV broke, and I was forsed to upgrade.

[Darth Sinister]

So I got the double feature the other day. But though it says that the trailers on there, they're not there. It's from the boxset as it shows the footage from all eight Paramount films, when you have to choose which film to watch.

[Rich]

That is just damn lazy! They couldn't even make a new menu for it? What does the disc itself look like?

[Darth Sinister]

The disc is similar to this one.

http://www.alexallied.com/wp-content/uploads/friday13.jpg

Except is has part two Jason on it.

http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/a-m/fridaybox/fridaybox_menu2l.jpg

That's the menu.

[James M]

So it's disc 1 from the boxset repackaged.

[Darth Sinister]

Basically, except I can't find the trailers. What's even more interesting is that I looked and cannot find this listed anymore on Amazon.

[James M]

Well, there's no trailers because it really is just disc 1 from the boxset. All the trailers are on the Killer Extras disc.

[ChoKo]

Like others, I probably won't pick this up. I already own about three versions, each, of the F13films. I don't really need this.

On second thought, I might pick it up just because it is what it is... and I'm a fucking nerd.

[Darth Sinister]

Well, there's no trailers because it really is just disc 1 from the boxset. All the trailers are on the Killer Extras disc.

That explains that. However, I wonder if they pulled the DVD's as they didn't have the trailers though they advertised them.

[Rich]

Why would they even put theatrical trailer on the back of the cover if they are not there. That is dirty and bad business. I think Paramount should be ashamed of themselves.

[Darth Sinister]

I agree. It's very off for them. Here's the weird part. Suncoast video claims that it has two discs.

http://www.suncoast.com/Friday-the-13th-Parts-1-and-2--2-Discs--Front-Page_stcVVproductId14769511VVcatId455365VVviewprod .htm

Which doesn't make a whole lotta sense unless someone fucked up on Suncoast or Paramount fucked up. Amazon also lists it as two.

http://www.amazon.com/Friday-13th-Part-Double-Feature/dp/B000PHX5NW/ref=sr_1_10/104-0679381-8027115?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1189716135&sr=1-10

I'm wondering if I and everyone who did buy the first release, got screwed. Anyone who has bought this, let me know if you had two discs or one.

[Rich]

It is a one disc release.

[Chex]

I've still yet to pick up the box set and just happened to come across a double feature DVD the other day. After looking at it, I think I'll just skip them and go for the set.

[MaDMaNMaRz]

I've still yet to pick up the box set and just happened to come across a double feature DVD the other day. After looking at it, I think I'll just skip them and go for the set.

Good choice. :)

I could see picking it up if you're new to the series. Otherwise, it's better to just save up and get the box set. The DF doesn't even have trailers, from what i've heard.

[Patrick]

I guess it's good I never did buy the double feature release then. Couldn't Paramount be sued for false advertisement saying the trailers are on there and they aren't? The same way MGM was sued a couple years back by someone claiming MGM was cropping the full-frame version of a movie and making it look widescreen?

[Rich]

Legally they could be, but who's going to sue them? Who has the money to do so? Some law suits are simply not worth it. This, to me, is one of them.

[Deathscythe]

Yeah, sue because you didn't get some one minute trailer? Thats kinda lame...

[sCabbOy]

Sue for your money back? haha.

I don't even care. America is too sue happy.

[nottidelterrore]

I'm going to pass on these. It's a repackaging of the first disc from the box set that I already own. It'd be a good acquisition for someone who doesn't have the first two movies & wants them for a decent price though.

[Patrick]

Yeah, sue because you didn't get some one minute trailer? Thats kinda lame...

If you are asking ME if I would, the answer is no. And if you ARE asking me, I didn't say I would to begin with. I was just mentioning it because it is false advertising and it reminded me of the MGM incident.

Ask yourself why that dude would sue MGM just because of widescreen/full frame issue. That IS lame, but he did it none-the-less.

As sCabbOy said, people will sue for anything.