Is Warner Bros. Releasing a Complete Friday the 13th Blu-ray Set This Year?
Steve Barton
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There’s a seven-hour Crystal Lake Memories documentary inbound this year, meaning Friday the 13th fanatics already think life is pretty sweet. But what if the good news didn’t have to end there? What if, for the first time ever, we obsessive fanatics could have it all?
And by “all” I mean every Jason Voorhees outing bundled in one bloody Blu-ray package.
For those unaware: Warner Bros. acquired the rights to 600 titles in Paramount’s back catalogue last October in a deal that went into effect on January 1st. Naturally, this got horror fans speculating as to what genre titles could hit the shelves with the Warner logo attached.
Now Warner Bros. is hinting (via their WBShop Facebook page) that a complete Friday the 13th box set could see the light of day this fall. A few months back a fan asked the WBShop where the rest of the Friday the 13th Blu-rays were, and the official response was, “There should be some news for Jason fans later in the year.” Another fan dropped a similar inquiry this week, asking for a boxed release of Parts 1-8. Again, the response was interesting: “You might get that and more…”
No, this isn’t concrete news. But it’s also not very surprising. It’s no secret that the Friday the 13th franchise had done really well for Paramount on home video. The studio infamously triple-dipped the first eight titles, first in bare bones releases, then with a half-assed box set, followed by deluxe editions (which were then packaged in another embarrassing DVD-only box for the worst suckers out there). The first three films slipped onto Blu-ray to coincide with the release of the 2009 remake, but since then the trail has gone cold, presumably because Paramount no longer sees the value in cultivating HD titles for a waning marketplace.
Now that Warner Bros. owns the distribution rights to all twelve films in the franchise, a complete box set sounds like a no-brainer. And these vague social media responses seem to suggest we won’t have very long to wait.
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