For someone not interested in special features is this worth it? Are there any differances?

If you want to save money,the box set is the way to go. If you only want to pick up a few select films in the series. The single releases are the way to go. If you want to pick up quite a few films in the series,but not all of them. The box set is the way too go since it's still the cheaper route

The features are not that great,since Paramount rushed this thing through production. But it's quite a bargin for the price and worth it.

Julie Walker's explanation is the main point...


I did get all Jason related DVDs (via boxset) but still pursue the R3 Uncut Edition

How many minutes and what was cut from the US version of part 1?

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I actually bought the Friday the 13th set a few weeks ago. I went with the box set because it was much cheaper. I'm not one interested in special features either but it's still a nice bonus, even though I'll probably never watch them.

This isn't rare and oop or anything, is it? I have a sealed copy lying around from when I picked this up cheap a few years ago.

Well you figure the original releases run you about $12 a piece and the box runs about $55, so if your looking into 5 or more of the films, the Box set is the way to go... In terms of video/audio they are equal (although the box set is a little brighter)... also, if anything else the Deleted Scenes featurette is a very good bonus...

Definitely get the box set. Not only is it cheaper, but it's more compact and will save you storage space.

Decent box for the price. I picked it up during the DDD 20% sale - great item to save for the sale unless you really want it now. I have enjoyed doing a couple Jason & Freddy mini marathons lately knocking out all the films in both series in a couple of weeks. If I did not get the box sets so cheap I would have picked up just a couple of the different titles as some are a little week. But at about $5 a movie I decided to just get the whole set (I am kind of a completist).

I love the boxed set.

I like the individual discs. Each movie deserves its own case.

The first Friday the 13th is also available in region 2 for cheap, in a non-snapper case.

can someone who owns the box set display a picture of the individual packages?

I bought all the single titles before the set came out and the box set isn't worth a double dip imo, but get it if you don't have any singles yet.

is there a differance between the box and the singles?

what's the difference in the region 2 and region 3 version? i own region 1 and if I'm missing on extended scenes i will hunt those down

The only difference really is with parts 1 and 4.

Part 1 used a weird hybrid print of the film which had one uncut death scene(Annies) and the killers death scene was further cut from the already cut R version(so very little of the aftermath is left). The box set version contains the original R rated version of the film. So Annies death is cut with a fade to white(but you hear her dying),while the killers death has more aftermath left,despite a few squirts of blood deleted to avoid an X rating.


part 4 had some missing sound effects/music cues and I've read the color timing of the transfer was off in a few sequences(the shower scene with lights off,had lights still on i'm told). This has all been fixed with the box set version.

And note the deleted scenes feature on the bonus disc does not contains Annies uncut death sequence,but does show the other uncut scenes from the film. It adds up to only a few seconds though,so don't get too excited about it. part 1 was one of the least cut films in the entire series.

death was also edited to avoid the X. But to tell you truth, I perfer the R-edit on this sequence because his neck looks too phoney on the uncut footage. The fake neck appears to be too long and it's color doesn't match his face. The side angle when we first see the arrow come out of the neck looks much more realistic and shocking, IMO.

I wish someone could show or talk about a comparison.

so i was just doing some more research at DDD, and their offering the box 48.40, but each disc is 6.03 which comes to about the same i think i might go that route unless someone can give me a good reason why not to, differance in video quality or sound? Im with Disc-Flipper on this I prefer the individual discs.

I heard it was OOP in R3 (if you would notice its WB not Paramount).

R2 uncut is still available.