“I would love to see this redone right”

I, too, would also love to see this done right. If the parties involved heavily re-edited it with a voice-over (let’s say from like Adrianne King) and used the combo of film footage and rare behind-the-scenes stills and used more fresh/new interview footage and made up a new defanitive four hour documentary such as New Line did for Never Sleep Again, they chould easily–if they tried and went in franchise chrinological order and have Peter BRacke’s involvement especilaly–make the definative Friday series documentary. After all, everyone is still alive, so I would really push for it, and many have spoken about they’re general disappoint in “HNWJ”.

However sadly, I don’t see that happening all too soon. Ah well.

Oh and sort of staying with this lite off-topic discussion: I have most of the Blu-Ungerground Blu Rays (from The New york Ripper, to Argento’s underrated The Stendhal Syndrome to Romero’s original The Crazies) and I also pre-ordered Joseph Zito’s ‘81 slasher entry The Prowler. I too thought the older DVD tended to be soft as a lot of older films are, but it was a fine film. Blu Underground usually does a pretty damn good job as well.

Also the good folks on over at HorrorDVDs (aka: Horror Digital now) reviewed it with pics, and the Image Quality got an A! Enjoy the review: http://www.horrordvds.com/viewarticle.html?articleid=845 (fabulous site, by the way–I hate to somewhat advertise, but I like to go there every other month or so in addition to listening to deadpit.com, it’s where I get most of my general genre film news since I don’t buy in print physical publications that you can hold anymore; it’s just a waste of money in my eyes since it’s all more or less avilable for free online). But yeah, The Prowler does have it’s slower bits, but all in all, it’s a pretty cool late 1980 shot old school ‘body count’ film.

Sweet; Joseph directed and Tom did the gore.

Great slasher movie.

I would love to see this redone right.

Amen, Justin.

“I agree with one of the posters, the two naked girls, death reenactments, and savini’s unfunny one liners detracted from the documentary and were highly unnecessary.”

Why thanks once again, my dear Justin. But yeah, the documentary most DEFINATELY had potential to be as near epic as Never Sleep Again was this year for old school genre film franchise/series lovers, and it had all the winning ingrediants, but I don’t know: Never Slee Again with it’s narration and editing turned out simply much, MUCH better then His Name Was Jason chould ever hope to be with it’s never ending long-line series of assholes who are mods and main runners of genre fan websites such as Shock Till You Drop and all of that whom of course my main gribe overall have NOTHING to do with the mostly ’80s productions themselves and bring only outsider to the production’s opinions on the subject matter.

In that respect, His Name Was Jason, and the oddly enough better produced on the fly and rather quickly thrown together (as it’s makers told http://www.deadpit.com), which at least followed an order and give out rare behind the scenes info on the film, (sadly) easily triumpth the HNWJ doc. Not that I hated His Name Was Jason or anything; I just feel it has many lameoid parts, is barely mediocre, and I’m still a bit pissed off since it is of course mine–and I’m assuming everyone elses’ who posts here or why else would you be here?–favorite of the big name genre franchises, and it was barely even a half-ass’d documentary. I would really call it more of a VH1-esque overly long “I love the ’80s: Jason Voorhees Edition!” special for 92 or so minutes then a real doc more of less, but to each they’re own.

i hope the french release will be region-free! i don’t think i’ll be springing for a hacked player anytime soon like i did for dvd. region-coding is fucking retarded.

i agree 4-8 would be a much better treat, but i’ll take anything friday i can get.

The extras were great though.

Would much rather have 4-8 on Blu.

While it’s of course true that jasonsfury can’t report on what Paramount doesn’t do or doesn’t work on, like everyone said above, this is only a documentary and it being in HD wouldn’t be THAT much of an improvement as it’s not 35mm film.

I would rather finally have Blu Ray releases of Parts IV-through-VIII (from The Final Chapter right on down to Jason Takens Manhatten) of course on Blu. And with any inclusive extras and even ore cut scenes they can find down in the aramount vaults that sadly haven’t been thrown out. And it’s good to hear that Mnsters HD once showed them in High-Definition. So far the Blu’s for Parts 1-through-3D that I own all are vast improvements over the older from ‘04 on down standard definition DVD prints used, and so I just boughtt eh Deluxe Editions’ of arts IV and onward to tide me over for some reasons, the big series fan that I am.

And Jason Goes To Hell is one of my least favorite of the entire franchise series run, so I honestly don’t care if I ever see that in HD, as I’m sure it would look ever more cheap and “direct-to-VHS” looking horrible, but for it’s few fans and defenders, I hope it’ll eventually make it to Blu Ray one of these years, just for them. I just don’t care to ever own it again after re-watching a DVD copy I bought much earlier in the year up-converted. It’s stil lmy least favorite of the series along with Jason X and Parts VII and and the remake and Freddy Vs. Jason. But to each they’re own.

I have some news that could cheer someone up if they want parts 4-8 on blu-ray. On the Playstation network (Unsure about Xbox Live), you can watch parts 4-8 all in HD. I haven’t checked them out yet due to my intensely slow internet connection, but when I can, I’ll report on the quality.

And to hear it may get a b-r release before parts 4 – 7 is an outcry

I’ll pass on this docu.