In the Crystal Lake Memories Book Greg Nictero comments on seeing some of this stuff at this person’s house.

So this guy must have something? Or he destroyed it like a jackass.

finger’s crossed for a director’s cut!!!

it’s a shame one of the kinda lame entries is the only sequel they have footage from, but it may very well be a decent entry with some more gore. i used to love that one when i was younger.

i would certainly love an uncut JTM on blu-ray!!…i’d pay a very nice price for it.

My bad, I thought the part of the interview that included the discussion of Part VII was up at Dread Central. Cody posted it over at the community message board. Here’s what he had to say (and, it’s not good news)…

“we did find several lost scenes from Part 7 that didn’t make it on the original box set. They are mostly “character moments” involving Lar Park Lincoln and Kevin Blair, as well as an extended scene with Billy Butler and his date on their way to the “birthday bash.” These are definitely included in the new Deluxe Edition.

We also found a few outtakes of Kane rising from the lake and a better-quality version of Melissa’s “ax to the head” death scene.

Unfortunately most of the trims from Part 7 were destroyed in 1991. Believe me, we would have killed ourselves to create the ultimate/uncut version of 7. But what we did find will hopefully give fans a chance to see (albeit not the best quality) some of that holy grail material, and we were grateful to John Buechler and Fred Mollin for providing us with the early work tapes that they (thankfully) kept safe all these years. Had it not been for that material, the Part 7 disc would have been sorely lacking. So thanks to John and Fred!

On the upside, Part 8 has pretty much everything that was excised from the film — lots of outtakes, alternate angles and a few never-before-seen moments. Scott Reeves, Jensen Daggett and Kane Hodder did an amazing commentary track that I know fans are going to love. The best feature (IMHO) is the “gag reel” that Rob Hedden and his team assembled for their cast & crew wrap party. We included it in its entirety — including a “piece” of Kane’s Jason you’ve never seen before!

Just wanted to fill in some of the gaps and to let everyone know that we put everything that exists on these DVDs. Paramount didn’t “hold out” on you this time — if it existed in their vaults, we put it on these Deluxe Editions.”

Kasch also posted over on the board that they found an document authorizing the destruction of the cut footage and that there will NEVER be uncut versions (since the footage has been destroyed).

Those of us who used to write letters to Paramount are feeling about like Clark Griswold, right now, after he rigged all those Christmas lights up only to flip the switch and have nothing happen. At least, we have a definitive answer.

I coped with VHS until 2024. I finally dished out for a DVD player at the end of that year and I just want to get my money’s worth. Seriously, the player cost a significant portion of my Walmart paycheck and I ended up spending a week eating Cup O Noodle soup just to afford the thing and not go into further debt. I don’t think I’m spoiled. I’m actually very poor and I try to get my money’s worth out of everything I buy.

“We definitely have some great stuff lined up for fans for these movies even though so much of the extra footage has been lost. I can promise you, as a fan, I still think they will be awesome to watch.”

If you follow the link to Dread Central up top, the Dan discusses what to expect on the part VII release.

Also what can be expected for Part 7’s release?

Personally, I shall continue to snatch up the remaining Deluxe Editions retail (cause no use using my usual 3rd party Amazon.com sellers I normally use monthly for my bulk orders; all of the Super Wal-marts near me, oddly enough given a certain poster here, are gonna carry’em, plus the Ghostbusters game I want).

I’m happy that Parts IV as well as VI are gonna have commentary over the un-used cut footage. We should all be thankful we’re getting these and let’s try not too bitch TOO much at Cashamount. Yeah, they’ve done much wrong in the past. However, as Mr. Ferrands has stated and promised to us, they shipped him and the other gentleman who are producing the new extras on these remaining Deluxe Edition’s all of the material that had “Friday the 13″ written on it, and they poured over it. Each frame of 35mm film.

Re-read that fine articale. At least we’re getting usable cut material as special features on The Final Chapter, as well as Jason Lives; even new stuff from The New Blood (though I know: we can expect the same atrocious quality from the ‘04 totally bullshit ‘Ultimate Edition’ set, however, let us just be thankful) and we’ve been promised plenty of stuff that Mr. Rob Hedden thankfully saved for his own private collection that they can use for the Jason Takes Manhatten disc.

Plus the sound on them has improved (if you own a solid 5.1 set like me and others, you can definately tell in the first three re-issued Deluxe Edition DVDs) as well as fine and much brighter HD-transfered film transfers. Especially nicer if you have a modern TV set and a fine up-converter theater system like me. And they’re all (the remaining ones that is) gonna boast fresh commentary tracks, so again, with all due respect, let’s not bitch TOO much, now. And some cast & crew gather for fresh, recently shot interviews as well.

I do agree on one thing, though: Shame on Paramount for throwing away all of the exercised footage/material on Parts 2, 3, 5 and 7. There was no reason to do that, even though Lasedisc hadn’t even taken off at that point, and I agree there was little reason to keep it, as throwin’ away footage on even more major films was quite common back then. So far, so good on the standard-def Deluxe Editions. I’ll up grade, just as a big time series supporter I also snatched up the slim-case boxset of the New Line Cinema years recently to have a fine lookin’ set of them and to have one more copy of each of them.

Personally, I don’t see what ALL the bitchin’ is about on these re-releases since the audio & video quality and much better. If anything, they shouldn’t take up disc space with those rancid & super silly fan films of a Jason-like killer. Honestly, does ANYONE truely (the majority, that is) like & want them?

Even still, does seem a bit silly that they did it. But to each they’re own.

You can’t say that we are getting somewhere when Paramount has hardly moved with this franchise in decades. The only thing we are getting from Paramount is a response to the remake. And these DVDs arent much considering how much fans have pleaded with Paramount over the years for good special features…but there are worse things y’know. You can waste your life away behind the register at Walmart and never have more than $2.00 in your wallet at any given time.