Perfect cast and a good story

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Now that I've watched every Friday 13th movie I can confidently say that though they are certainly entertaining and undoubtedly genre defining they really aren't for the most part that good.This documentary does not really follow the movies per say, its more about Jason himself and bounces around across his 12 outings at random through interviews with both cast, creators and celebrity fans.Sadly for a documentary it really isn't very enlightening, it recycles information you'll already know if you've seen the films and the interviews are surprisingly tame.A few revelations came up regarding difficulties in production and censorship issues but outside of that I was very unimpressed.Kudos to Tom Savini for playing host but truth be told the whole thing felt extremely rushed. How do you make a documentary about such an iconic household name that spanned 12 movies in one 90 minutes documentary? For Friday 13th fans I'd say this is a logical watch, for everyone else I'd pass.The Good: Tom Savini hosts A few interesting tit bitsThe Bad: Feels like an advert for the 2009 remake Comes across as rushed Very little new content Things I Learnt From This Movie: The twins from part 4 are even dumber in real life than they were in the movie

If you are a real Friday The 13th fan or if you want to know more of one of the earlier slashers then I surely recommend this documentary. Especially disc one is extremely well done. You will have first of a one hour and a half about the whole franchise, even the remake. All you want to know you will know, secondly, all actors who played Jason are giving their view over their version.Disc two is more about entertainment. Here and there there are some interesting things to learn but there are also some stupid things on it. Luckily the items on disc 2 are all shorts. The only thing that I regret is the fact that when some actors are talking about some scene's they aren't shown, so if it's a while since you have been watching the movies you will have some questions about what they are talking about. But still, if you have the book and this DVD, I guess there's isn't more to learn.

With the influence of Halloween: 25 Years of Terror, a group of filmmakers set out to make a Friday The 13th retrospective documentary on the entire franchise.Sadly,these filmmakers failed.First of all, this documentary is all over the place.Rather than explore all the Friday The 13th movies in order, we get several rants from obnoxious horror filmmakers giving their dumb opinions on the films.They barely let anyone who actually worked on the movies talk.There were certain people who did not need to be in this documentary like Steve Barton,Seth Green,Joe Lynch,Adam Green,Jeff Katz,Ryan Turek and tons more people.They do not offer anything about the making of the franchise so what's the point of having them interviewed? Also the heavy metal music is so annoying and painful to listen to!! It was just so horrible to have that music blarring in the background. Also Tom Savini's hosting is very cheesy and annoying. Honestly, he's tries to be funny and entertaining but he fails every time.The special features on the second disc were actually better than the documentary itself. At least we get to hear the cast and crew actually speak!! This was just a horrible documentary that could have been so much better.But as horrible as it was, it was still a slightly entertaining look back on the Friday The 13th franchise. But if you want a real retrospective on the series, get the CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES book instead!

This I bought just before going to go see the remake and I have to say that for being a... partial fan?.... this was extremely eye opening for me. I learned crap that I had no idea even took place. The fact that The whole thing went so in depth was just icing on the cake for me. The interviews were great and it went though great deaths, the origins of the series, and whole bunches of crap that really just grabs your attention. I will say this however, because along with everyone in the world saying it and this little thing saying it, Friday The 13th did NOT invent the slasher genre. It may have pushed the envelope and made some of the rules that we see in all modern day slasher flicks but it sure as hell did not create the genre. Did everyone forget that Halloween came out two years before? Did everyone forget that there was a little film called Psycho that influenced both of these movies. Either way this documentary was great and for any fan of the series I recommend picking it up!