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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Review for the DVD, October 27, 2009
FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER DVD
***** Out of 5
In recent years DVD releases have started to get really lame; so called SE DVDs is anything, but that. Even Blu-ray releases aren't always so excellent either. Of all the DVDs and Blu-ray's I own most of the weakest releases are always from Paramount and their releases of the Friday the 13th movies are terrible. With the Deluxe Edition DVDs and Blu-ray releases, Paramount has slightly made up for their horrible releases of the series. But The Final Chapter was an excellent release and quite honestly one of my favorite DVDs that I own.
AUDIO COMMENTARY- Joseph Zito, Barney Cohen, Joel Goodman
Solid track, which is the standard commentary track, but it is informative and a good listen, but the 2nd audio track was better; but like I said this was a good track.
AUDIO COMMENTARY- Adam Green & Joe Lynch
Adam Green is of course the writer/director of Hatchet and Joe Lynch the director of Wrong Turn 2 and these two are truly a blast to listen to. Like all of us they are fans of the movie and it's just a blast listening to these guys talk about the movie; they have fun with the movie and have a few jokes about the movie, but not in an insulting way. Like I said, like all of us Green and Lynch are fans and it's sort of like hanging out with a couple of friends and watching the movie. I wasn't sure if I liked the idea of a fan commentary, but it turned out to be possibly the best part of the disc. Both Green and Lynch are horror geeks and it's so much fun listening to them go on about the movie.
LOST TALES FROM CAMP BLOOD PART IV 6:19
Directed by Andrew Ceperley and like the others I found this enjoyable; while it's nothing amazing, it is fun for the most part. This may not be the strongest feature on the disc, but makes for a decent filler.
SLASHED SCENES 15:17
This is a collection of alternate footage that features extra gore, but you can see the cast and crew so it's not the typical alternate footage. There is also no audio, since the track was lost, but director Joseph Zito provides commentary on it. This was an excellent feature and this alone makes the disc more than worth a purchase.
JASONS UNLUCKY DAY: 25-YEARS AFTER FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER- 11:02
This features interviews with many members of the cast and crew and while it's pretty much the same stuff we've heard in the past it's still a very solid feature.
THE LOST ENDING 3:19
Like Slashed Scenes there is no audio, but commentary is provided by Joseph Zito and Kimberly Beck; despite no audio there are subtitles provided. This was really great to finally see; I'm not sure if it would have worked in the film itself. But once again this disc provides the goods.
THE CRYSTAL LAKE MASSACRE REVISITED PART 1 18:05
This is a really fun feature, which is a spoof on the series; it centers on people who live around Crystal Lake and they discuss the legend of Jason; this feature is rather silly, but it's also very funny; keep a watch for the names horror fans and Friday fans should pick up on them; Director Stuart Gordon appears as Shelly' father; Shelly of course being from Friday the 13th Part 3. This one is just silly fun and another excellent feature. This was directed by Daniel Farrands the writer of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
JIMMY'S DEAD DANCE MOVES 2:06
Commentary is provided by Joseph Zito and once again we have another winner; this was a really fun feature and I'm sure fans of this movie will love it.
THEATRICAL TRALIER 1:54
No need to explain this.
TRANSFER
All the prior releases of The Final Chapter were quite poor with a lot of grain and dirt; to be honest the past DVD releases were slightly better than a re-mastered VHS and at times the quality was no better than a VHS. To be honest the only reason to buy the DVD is for the Widescreen; if not for that the DVD wasn't an upgrade over the VHS for the most part.
Of all the DVD release for the Friday the 13th movies The Final Chapter was the worst transfer. Forget the features for a moment the picture quality alone is worth the price of the disc. This transfer is far better than the lousy releases in the past; while there is still obviously some grain and dirt this transfer looks amazing and far sharper than the prior releases.
The colors are sharp and the movie looks brand new. This DVD was re-mastered in High Definition and it just looks amazing. Sometimes these movies are too cleaned up and they lose their low budget charm, but that doesn't happen here. But the picture is sharp and spot on; the past releases were horrible, but this DVD is top notch.
The scene where Jason kills Doug was horrible in the original release; the POV shots are so grainy and it just simply looked horrible and plus the light was turned off, but yet it was still bright in the room. That problem is gone on this transfer. The original release the picture quality was terrible, but this new DVD gets it all right and the movie looks amazing and brings a new layer to the movie;
AUDIO
The new 5.1 Surround sound was alright; to be honest on this release and the Blu-ray releases for the first 3 I have preferred the original Mono track. The 5.1 sounds great in terms of music, but I wasn't too fond of the dialogue. It didn't sound bad or anything, but I didn't really like it all that much. Again it sounds good, but I preferred the original Mono track.
FINAL WORDS ON THE DISC
I'm sure many will wait for a Blu-ray release, but the DVD is very worthy. Due to the age of the film and the Blu-ray will be taken from the same source when the Blu-ray does come out it really won't look that much better and odds are the extras will be the same. But if anyone is hesitant on picking this up due to Paramount's track record I can faithfully say Paramount did right this time; this is one of the few releases that is worthy of being called a Special Edition (or in this case Deluxe Edition). The only thing really missing is the TV scenes that were included on the Crystal Lake to Manhattan set. But it's really not a big deal. This disc is jam packed with solid extras and has a great transfer and is highly worth the upgrade.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
make your own DIRECTOR's CUT with this edition, July 5, 2009
finally, oh finally, paramount has given us what we wanted! as you can tell by the fact that every kill in this movie is about a half-second, they were forced to only use very quick clips of tons of special effects footage that was shot for this movie. the fans have been complaining for years about it.
included as an extra is "slashed scenes" which is every single bit of film that was left over from these death scenes. you can even see the jump in the clips where they pulled out their half-second shots to use in the movie. so you can imagine what you can do with this!!
i imported everything into windows movie maker, grabbed all the stuff i thought was meant to be in there and edited it back in. unfortunately there is no audio because it was lost (and the scoring and audio was done after it was edited), and there is no color correction of course...it's just raw film footage, but the quality is TOP NOTCH! i color corrected to the best of my ability (obviously the pros have highlighting effects and things that i can't afford), looped some sounds, dropped some unnecessary cutaway clips, zoomed everything to match the shots in the actual film...and after about two weeks of spending a few hours a day on this, I NOW HAVE THE DIRECTOR'S CUT OF PART 4 THAT I'VE WANTED FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS!!!! i love it!!! you can do the same if you're good with windows movie maker and download some of "blaine's" free effects and stuff like that.
in addition, you get a great looking transfer...the sound effects missing from the previous releases are fixed...and you even get some other awesome extras, like outtakes of jimbo's dead f*** dance. this release is perfect! thank you paramount!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
NOW PLEASE RELEASE IT ON BLU-RAY!!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best Friday!, July 2, 2009
For me, this is simply the best Friday The 13th ever! I own the previous DVD release of this, but this Delux version is the must-buy!
If you like extras they are here. 2 commentaries (1 screenwriter/editor and 1 fan commentary) deleted scenes/outtakes (Crispin Glover is hilarious with his dance death scene). The Lost Ending is an alternate ending that shows how different it could have been. The Making Of was very interesting and probably the best extras feature. The Crystal Lake Massacres is like an amaeture documentary ala Blair Witch only not as good, pretty lame. Lost Tales Of Camp Crystal Lake Part 4 (this is weird cause I have the Delux edition of 3-D and there isn't a part 3 there so who knows where the first three parts are and why they would be out of order). Jimmy's dead dance moves is hilarious! Crispin Glover cracks me up here! Jason's Unluky Day - 25 years later is a nice recap on this movie.
Ok, extras aside this film is the best in the Friday The 13th's for me. Part 3 comes close and Freddy vs Jason & the remake of Friday are nice and all, but this part is top notch. I think the casting was perfect for this film, from having two stars like Crispin Glover and Corey Feldman to the others who are relatively unknown, but all did good jobs. The death scenes are amazing, spooky and the visuals of this film just beat out any of the other Fridays easily.
This Delux edition is a must-buy for the quality alone (like the other Delux editions these are far superior to their original releases). The extras are just gravy to having the movie remastered so well. I wouldn't even suggest renting this movie. GO BUY IT! NOW!
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