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• Actors: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon
• Directors: Sean S. Cunningham
• Writers: Ron Kurz, Victor Miller
• Producers: Sean S. Cunningham, Alvin Geiler, Steve Miner
• Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: September 9, 2008
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001AGNMGM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,389 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart

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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Uncut, November 8, 2008

By	gooniemcfly (out there) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friday the 13th Uncut (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

One of the most-repeated fandom gripes I heard at the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival was directed squarely at Paramount -- they won't release the uncut DVDs of the slasher movies that they produced and/or distributed in the 1980s, even when the materials are plainly available. Well, one such complaint may be silence now -- Paramount Home Entertainment has announced new DVD and Blu-ray "Deluxe Editions" of Friday the 13th that will restore gore footage that has been missing from all US releases of the film (Warner Bros., owner of the foreign rights to the movie, has had the uncut version out for years in Europe). Both will come out on February 3, 2009.

Special features on the Deluxe Edition will include:
Director Sean S. Cunningham's commentary track,
Four featurettes:
Fresh Cuts: New Tales from "Friday the 13th"
Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham
Friday the 13th: Special Reunion
Lost Tales from Camp Blood: Part 1)
The trailer.

Also due out on February 3rd are Deluxe Editions of Friday the 13th Part 2 and Part 3, although both appear to be the theatrical versions. Part 2 will also be heavy with special features -- five featurettes (Inside Crystal Lake Memories, Horror Convention, Slasher Films: Going for the Jugular, Jason Forever, and Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 2), a Jason trivia text track, and a trailer. Part 3 will feature both the regular 2D version, as well as (for the first time ever on DVD) 3D version, complete with a pair of 3D glasses. It will also feature the theatrical trailer.

There will be about 10 seconds of extra footage added into this unrated edition.

The extended death scenes in Friday the 13th part 1 include:
Annie's extended death scene. Annie getting her throat cut.
Marcie's death scene. Marcie getting an axe to the head.
Jack's (Kevin Bacon) extended death scene by arrow through the throat.
Mrs. Voorhees's death scene.

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars paramount fails this series again, as expected, February 8, 2009

By	T. Whyle "tRoK" (coraopolis, pa United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Friday the 13th Uncut [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

a few months ago when i heard paramount was releasing friday the 13th UNCUT for the first time in the US on blu-ray, i thought for the first time they had come to their senses and were going to finally give us a good release of this movie...man, was i wrong!!

first of all, let's look at this new revamped cover art. it looks like it was made by a high school student using photoshop for the first time. the arms are not proportionate to each other and the forearm of the one holding the knife looks deformed. i don't know what's up with the squiggly line that makes up the right leg under 'uncut'--i think it was supposed to look like creases in the pants, but it doesn't. it looks like bad photoshop clone-stamping. basically, it's amateur work from a professional company. i can't believe they wouldn't touch it up some before releasing it to the masses.

second, the movie is ZOOMED IN. normally i wouldn't notice something like this, but they've cut out like half the shot from previous releases...'Friday the 13th' in the opening credits actually get's cropped off at the top. i compared this to the previous paramount DVD release and Warner's uncut overseas DVD, and they both have a significant margin above the name. you notice it other places too...when the couple at the beginning is flattening out the blanket on the floor--completely cut out of the shot, when you could see it before. marcy's buttcrack when she's sitting on the bed in her panties with K.Bacon, completely cut out of the shot, when you could see it before....i always loved that buttcrack shot as a kid!! now it's gone!!!! if you grew up with this movie like i did, you'll definitely notice it throughout the movie...every shot is right up in the actors's faces when you knew that before you were seeing clear down past their shoulders.

as for extras, there's a few cool interviews, but most of it is recycled from previous releases.

'LOST TALES FROM CAMP BLOOD' is the worst piece of crap anyone's ever created! it's a mini-movie (filmed recently, so in no way pertains to a release of the original F13th). a couple is awakened by an intruder, so one at a time, they go downstairs and call people's names for about 5 minutes. then they die gruesome deaths at the hand of some bald dude who looks nothing like jason. all this while the score of the original movie plays in the background. I HATED THIS. apparently this is all paramount thinks a F13th movie is...they must have missed the fact that F13th required creativity, talent, a script, and good filmmaking.

all in all, the only thing they got right is they finally released it uncut. everything else is wrong and a step down from previous releases. the hi-def picture was okay but i was fairly unimpressed...probably because all i could think about was how weird it looks zoomed in like that. if it were zoomed out to its true ratio, it would have made the picture look clearer and less grainy.

paramount is a disgrace to F13th. they always disappoint me beyond my expectations.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe LUV2SHOP@AMAZON review this IS UNCUT, May 6, 2009

By	the reviewer "me" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friday the 13th Uncut (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

Aaah Friday the 13th, love it or hate it everyones got an opinion. And the series and Jason Vorhees as much as it's detractors, critics, etc etc deny, it was as much a part of 80's pop culture as hair-metal and Michael Jackson.

So finally after all these years Paramount has finally released it uncut, is it worth it? Depends on your point of view. As a die hard Friday fan I say yes. But here's the thing, don't go into this expecting a bloodbath. Remember this movie came out in 1980, just like Psycho might've been graphic in 1960 and looked tame in 1980. Friday the 13th in the words of Bart Simpson "pretty tame by today's standards"


But I bet people in 2029 will be saying the same thing about Hostel and Saw. That's the drawback of gore, it doesen't age well.


The dvd itself is well done and I have 1 minor complaint. The commentary track consists of quotes taken from other sources and is not the cast and crew watching the film and commenting as they watch. Some of the comments from director Sean Cunningham are lifted from the extras for example. But that's just a minor gripe.


Now to address a falshood by LUV2SHOP@AMAZON, this dvd is uncut. the 2 scenes he mentions were never filmed.


I've read about Brenda supposedly being shot with an arrow on camera. However this was from a fansite and neither is mentioned in the commentary, or on the bonus features or on the excellent His Name Was Jason documentary or even on IMDB's entry on Friday the 13th.


The second one is common among Friday fans. The picture of Claudette(the girl killed just before the opening credits) with a hatchet in her neck was not a still from the movie but was a photo taken on set for the horror magazine Fangoria.

It seems like some fans are just fishing for reasons to bash the release when they really have nothing to complain about. I mean really, it's the same with My Bloody Valentine, we've been calling for this for years. Paramount delivers and your still complaining? Give me a break. You know they're gonna look at this and figure they're damed if they do damned if they don't and will still treat Friday fans like a red headed stepchild.

The transfer is fine
The film is uncut

Quit your whinning your all acting like spoiled little kids, never satisfied. While Paramount deserves all the flack it's gotten for not treating the Friday films right, they deserve credit for releasing the first film uncut and while it would've been nice if it was uncut, releasing 3 in 3-D.