His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th |  | Directors: Sean S. Cunningham, Daniel Farrands
Actors: Tom Savini, Kane Hodder, Seth Green, Travis Van Winkle, James Roday
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Format: Color, Widescreen, Anamorphic, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: DV16269
UPC: 013131626995
EAN: 0013131626995
ASIN: B001L9EXNO
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: February 3, 2009
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time: 84 minutes
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"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 Stills from His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (Click for larger image)
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 FRIDAY THE 13TH, Halleujah! February 24, 2010
Daniel A. Foster (Falmouth, MA, USA)
This documentary is one of my favorites next to MONSTER SQUAD: FOREVER and HALLOWEEN: 25 YEARS OF TERROR. This documentary has a fine share of cast members from the franchise, some of the writers, some of the directors and some hardcore fans. The list includes:
Betsy Palmer
Tom Savini
Victor Miller
James D. Rolfe (a.k.a. Angry Video Game Nerd from YouTube, [..])
Mark Swift & Damien Shannon
Joe Zito
Kane Hodder
C.J. Graham
Warrington Gillette
 Dumb, self-congratulatory doc with little of interest to say January 18, 2010
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
His Name Was Jason offers the occasional interesting morsel of information for people interested about the films, but mainly consists of the interviewees talking about how great and underappreciated the series is; if you go in looking for behind the scenes information, as I did, you'll almost certainly be disappointed during the unending sequences of self-aggrandizing indulgence.
2/4
 his name was jason dvd review November 1, 2009
Yann Pauziere
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!
INTERESTING LOOK INTO THE FRIDAY THE 13TH SERIES! October 28, 2009
! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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!
An In-Depth Look at the F13 Franchise May 6, 2009
C. Sawin (TX)
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
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