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Friday The 13th - The Series: The First Season
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Editorial Reviews:
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A suspense-mystery series that deals with the supernatural. In each episode, four brave souls embark on an assignment in danger and terror when they track down and retrieve cursed objects.
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Fans awaiting the DVD release of this 1987 cult fave made-in-Canada series, this is your lucky day! Friday the 13th: The Series has as much to do with Jason Vorhese as Halloween III: Season of the Witch had to do with Michael Myers; that is to say, nothing. But it stands on its own as a horror anthology series that delivers cheap, but effective, thrills. Louise Robey and John D. LeMay star as Micki and Ryan, distant relations who are reunited after inheriting her uncle Lewis' antiques shop. They learn that Lewis' death was by (super)natural causes; he broke his immortality pact with the Devil to sell cursed antiques. Now, Lewis is in hell (from which he returns in the episode, "Hellowe'en"), and Micki and Ryan must recover everything Lewis sold to an unsuspecting public. Jack (Chris Wiggins), Lewis' former friend, a magician with a helpful knowledge of the occult and an eventful backstory (as revealed in the episodes "Bottle of Dreams" and "Brain Drain"), helps them. The series gets off to an auspiciously creepy start with "The Inheritance," in which yuppie Micki and geeky Ryan attempt to retrieve a killer doll that has worked its demon magic on a spoiled brat (a young Sarah Polley) who uses it to dispatch her strict new stepmother. Perhaps worth the price of this set is "Faith Healer," directed by David Cronenberg, a grisly episode in which a charlatan gains the power to heal from an ancient glove. Atom Egoyan, another Canadian art house darling, directed the episode "Cupid's Quiver." Another memorable episode is "Scarecrow," which introduces a boogieman that gives Jason a run for his hockey mask, a scythe-wielding scarecrow. This inaugural season's most stellar guest star is Ray Walston as an embittered "has been" comic book artist whose superhero creation comes to murderous life. Unlike the movie franchise, Friday the 13th: The Series gets better as the season unfolds. The special effects are resourceful and the gore quotient at times pushes the syndication envelope. All in all, this show delivers--to quote the name of Micki and Ryan's emporium--the "Curious Goods." --Donald Liebenson
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Friday The 13th - The Series: The First Season
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User Comments About Friday The 13th - The Series: The First Season
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It was great to see that Amazon had this series in stock. I've been waiting a long time to see all of the episodes that I missed. The premise of the series was great and once you accept the cheesy acting its not that bad.
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Great stories, Glad to be able to get this - PQ purists may be disappointed though
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All of the disks played without any issues - also, something that is not universally guaranteed, since I've had tvdvd disks that were bad (wouldn't play or some episodes had glitches). Picture quality is not that great, tends to be dark and lean towards the red/orange end of the spectrum. Thanks very much to the studio for finally releasing it, longtime fans such as myself are grateful without a doubt. I'm very glad to be able to finally purchase this series on DVD. This isn't the best dvd transfer I've seen. I have waited years and so many times I came close to purchasing bootleg versions - glad I did not because now I have heard of identity theft problems involving those bootleg sellers.
this level of picture quality was once considered "acceptable". Also, take into account that we are spoiled in the modern hi-def age. I like the thin-style case (regular dvd size case) which cleverly holds six disks - would love to see that case become the new standard for box sets. The episodes are on a menu, that's great because I've heard some series like the new Sarah Connor series are not. I think that the enthusiasm for season one will show them that there is indeed a tangible market for this series. Now, the cons. Also it may be that this series wasn't highly regarded in it's day and probably wasn't stored under ideal conditions - who would think that 20 years later there would still be diehard fans waiting to watch it on hi-def 21st century tv sets.
First, the pro's. I hope the studio will follow up with a quick release of the remaining seasons on dvd so I can complete the collection. No problems at all with the playback. The quibbles about picture quality and even audio at times, pale in comparison to the delight I experienced in getting to enjoy the stories of occult mayhem and the quest to recover the cursed objects. I recently completed viewing the entire 1st season set. But in doing so, I hope there will be time and money to devote to improving the quality as much as humanly possible. I'm guessing a certain amount of that is intentional in the original.
All in all, I had a great time watching these stories again, some for the first time (I didn't get the chance to see all the original broadcasts).
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One of my favorite series
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Even though the quality is below average the show is still great. I am biased though because I loved this series growing up. Each episode is very involvedlike a short movie. It may or may not be for everyone.
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My review on Friday 13th the Series
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I had watched Friday 13 series on channel 11 in the early 1990's as a teenager. 13 'o clock involving a pocket watch from the story of January 2, 1989 had taken place in NYC because of the number 6 train run there.
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