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Our friend daizab received his copy of His Name Was Jason and shared with me some pics and information about the package and extra features. This release is missing three features the US release included:  “Freddy vs Jason in 30 seconds with bunnies”, “Jason takes COMIC-CON”, and “Shelly lives”. What this release lacks in features [...]

Yes, we’re a FRIDAY THE 13TH site, but HIS NAME WAS JASON was all kinds of rock, so now that the same creative team are back to conquer Freddy-land, I felt I had to chime in with a show of support. Besides, you just know it’ll be touching on FREDDY VS JASON, though it’ll be [...]

On Septemeber 16th, His Name Was Jason will be released in Japan. There are two versions that are being sold. One version is the normal version which looks to contain the same content that was released in the United States. The other version is the Memorial Version and it comes with an original design T-Shirt. [...]

HIS NAME IS JASON must have been a powerhouse success in the genre market because Anchor Bay Entertainment are re-releasing the documentary in a single-disc edition on June 16th with a $14.95 RRP.

Here’s a great new interview with Dan Farrands, (pictured here at last year’s Writer’s Strike with The Shape) the friendly director of His Name Was Jason (now availible, for those of you sleeping inside a zipped camping bag). Pay close attention to his comments about the DVDs for part 7 and 8. Long lost [...]

REVIEW: Christian Sellers
Thanks to Michael Moore, Metal: A Headbangers Journey and Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, the documentary is no longer something that is reduced to a DVD featurette and has now become a movie in its own right. The one movie that gorehounds have been counting [...]

Throughout the long history of Friday the 13th, there have been many men to put on the makeup and the mask and call themselves Jason Voorhees. Some have embraced the role often show how proud they are to have been Jason. Some dismiss the mask. Regardless of how accepting they are about playing Jason, [...]

For those of you fans living the Burbank, CA area there will be a Friday the 13 reunion celebrating the February 3rd release of ‘His name was Jason’.
Burbank’s famed gothic book retailer Dark Delicacies will host a thirty guest DVD signing that night – including the first Los Angeles appearance of the actors who have [...]

For those of you who live in the Los Angeles area, go by the New Beverly Theater (7165 West Beverly Blvd) on Friday January 30th for a special midnight showing of His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th ,the brand new documentary from Starz and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Co-sponsored by Bloody-Disgusting, [...]

Hi everyone. So what better way to wet everyone’s appetites until the new Friday is released than a trip down memory lane?
Fangoria has reviewed His Name Was Jason and the review goes quite in depth about what is included and which gold nuggets to keep an eye out for. Sadly it does confirm that Steve [...]

Here are the menu screens for ‘His name was Jason’ DVD.

Shock Til’ you drop

On February 3rd at 7 p.m. at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, signing session for His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th. It’s released the same day, but many places online you pre-order tend to ship DVDs out a few days early. You can also pre-order it from Dark Del for $19.95 fully [...]

Fangoria have the first review of the jam-packed His Name Was Jason DVD and you can read it right here.
The first disc offers the docu, plus a collection of bonus interviews called The Men Behind the Mask. Here, fans get brief chats with every gent who ever played you-know-who (yes, the Steve Daskawisz/Warrington Gillette and [...]

Raise your hand if you’re just as interested in this documentary as the remake. *Raises hand* Here’s the official promo for His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th, due to street on DVD on Feb. 3rd, followed by a world-premiere broadcast on the Starz network on Friday, February 13th.

Images provided courtesy of Anthony Masi.

HIS NAME WAS JASON: THIRTY YEARS OF FRIDAY THE 13TH (2-Disc Splatter Edition DVD Cover)

More images from the forthcoming documentary His Name Was Jason: Thirty Years of Friday the 13th, provided courtesy of Anthony Masi.

TOM SAVINI (FX artist; Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Host; His Name Was Jason: Thirty Years of Friday the 13th)

GLORIA CHARLES (Fox; Friday the 13th Part 3)

DARCY DEMOSS (Nikki; Friday the [...]

Just in from Fango:
Anchor Bay Entertainment gave Fango the word that it will release the documentary HIS NAME WAS JASON: 30 YEARS OF FRIDAY THE 13TH on DVD February 3, 2009. The exhaustive saga of Voorhees cinema will then have its broadcast premiere on Starz Friday, Feb. 13.
Directed by Dan Farrands (screenwriter of THE GIRL [...]

If you attend, be sure to have him sign your DVD copy of Anchor Bay’s His Name Is Jason – which he hosted! From Fango:
Makeup FX legend Tom (DAWN OF THE DEAD) Savini has joined the entire 2009 FANGORIA’s Weekend of Horrors tour and will be appearing in all three cities. Savini will first hit [...]

Here are some more names interviewed for the upcoming landmark doco, His Name Is Jason. Happy to see some remake faces in there!
Harry Manfredini
Steve Daskawicz
Richard Brooker
Ted White
Dick Wieand
Tom Morga
Ken Kirzinger
Derek Mears
Amanda Righetti
Travis Van Winkle
Nick Mennell
Marcus Nispel
Brad Fuller
Greg Nicotero
Tom Savini

Read on for the rest of interviewees this adds to.

One of the giddy tidbits you’ll discover about His Name Was Jason is that not only is Tom Savini hosting it, but that they’ve been filming linking vignettes for the FX legend to star in, which recreate key scenes from the Friday The 13th series.
You’ll be sure to write me off as a minutia-obsessed moron [...]