Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Deluxe DVD
Popular Third Sequel Worth Another DVD Upgrade.
Oct 23, 2009
First released on DVD in October 2000, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was like it's three predecessors in their initial DVD release: No upgraded picture or sound, and the only extra was the theatrical trailer. Fans were clearly unhappy about this; and some eagle-eyed fans (with good hearing) noticed some missing sound effects on the DVD. Paramount Pictures could do better and had the means and the material to do so.
In October 2004, Friday the 13th - From Crystal Lake to Manhattan , an eight-movie DVD boxed set with a special features bonus disc was released, which offered fans some new material. The bonus disc included deleted scenes such as Trish (Kimberly Beck) and her mother (Joan Freeman) discussing going jogging in the morning, Tommy (Corey Feldman) showing Rob (E. Erich Anderson) some more of his makeup creations, and Doug (Peter Barton) and Sara (Barbara Howard) talking in their bedroom about the party planned for that night. But still no picture or sound upgrades, although the missing sound effects in the first DVD release had been restored. Fans were less disappointed with this DVD incarnation but they knew Paramount had more material in the vaults.
Fans Can Finally See the Lost Ending with 2009 Deluxe Edition DVD
In June 2009 it was re-released on DVD in a deluxe edition and newly remastered in high definition with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. That alone is worth the upgrade, not to mention some all-new special features: Two commentaries, one with director Joseph Zito, editor Joel Goodman, and writer Barry Cohen, another with directors Adam Green (Hatchet, Spiral) and Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End). Both are fun and full of interesting trivia.
Slashed Scenes is over fifteen minutes of some pretty gory outtake death scene footage, rather than deleted scenes per se (the deleted scenes on the 2004 boxed set bonus disc do not appear here) and The Lost Ending, much talked about by fans over the years, is an excised dream sequence bookended between Tommy's mad attack on Jason and his reconciliation with Trish in her hospital room at the end of the movie. This neat little sequence is unfortunately missing the audio elements, though star Kimberly Beck and director Joseph Zito do provide an interesting commentary about it.
Jason's Unlucky Day: 25 Years After Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is an interesting eleven-minute featurette featuring comments from Kimberly Beck and Joseph Zito as well as makeup artist Tom Savini. In Jimmy's Dead F*ck Dance Moves we get an extended sequence of Crispin Glover's dance technique, and The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited Part 1 is an eighteen-minute fake true crime documentary with interviews and clips as if the Crystal Lake murders really happened. A intriguing concept that loses credibility by sometimes trying to be funny or goofy, and it wouldn't be if these events had really happened.
Again, the bottom-feeder of the special features is Lost Tales From Camp Blood Part 4, another installment of the short "story" spread out over the Friday the 13th deluxe edition DVD releases. No known killer, no known story, no known reason to watch it more than once. The theatrical trailer is included as well as a trailer for The Uninvited.
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