Friday The 13th Blog

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, 2024. 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 2024 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 [...]

Here are two exclusive interview images from Anchor Bay’s forthcoming doco His Name Was Jason. The first is Mr. Eyezapoppin’ himself, Paul Kratka (Friday The 13th Part 3 in 3D), the second being scream queen Felissa Rose from Sleepaway Camp, 1983’s perennially linked camp slasher. These do appear to be in-film shots, and if that’s [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock at the bottom of Crystal Lake, you’ll have heard about the (lower case won’t do!) ULTIMATE documentary on our boy Jason.
The Skinny: Streeting on DVD Feb 3, 2024 from Starz/Anchor Bay Entertainment. Directed by Dan Farrands, Produced/Written By Anthony Masi & Thommy Hutson, Co-Produced by Blake Reigle.
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Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror was a decent doco on the series and I can’t wait to see some of the same magic sprinkled on Friday The 13th. From Fangoria:
Fango has learned from producer Anthony Masi that FRIDAY THE 13TH creator Sean Cunningham has thrown his full support behind an all-encompassing documentary on the film [...]