Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection (WB)

[bkfountain]

Originally Posted by BluPat

Yea people keep griping about the packaging to Amazon. Amazon has nothing to do with it. Warner Bros. is who released it. The packaging is completely fine as far as I'm concerned.

I can see the packaging causing issues if Amazon just sends it out in bubble envelopes like everything else. The tin may get dinged up and I'd rightfully complain after paying retail price for a set like this. Amazon just screwed up a recent order of mine and one day shipped a replacement, certainly cost them more than what I paid for it.

My F13 set is in flawless condition, but I got it at Best Buy.

[Fritz]

Same here bkfountain. I paid $79.99 at BestBuy and it is perfect.

[thebat2]

Selling my UV code.

[rickah88]

^^Good, advertise it in the proper forum. Not here.

[shaysaysHAHA]

If anybody would be willing to sell just the tin for the set, I would pay 25-30 dollars to buy it from you.

I have purchased this set from four various sellers on Amazon/eBay, and all of them have arrived damaged. I also went to Best Buy once and bought one, and it turned out when I unwrapped it, the back of the tin had a huge dent. I couldn't tell that when I bought it because the card thing on the back was covering it.

[The Great Owl]

Here's a question for everyone reading this thread...

How did you first discover the Friday the 13th movies?

I'll get the ball rolling here...

Back in 1980, when I was only eight years old, some relatives from Alabama came over to our house to stay for the weekend. One of my cousins, who was several years older than me, could not stop talking about this movie, Friday the 13th, that he had seen at the theater the night before. While a bunch of us were playing ping-pong, this cousin excitedly summarized the entire movie with a play-by-play description of all of the kills. I thought that my cousin was making up the whole thing, because my own real name happens to be Jason, and I believed that he was talking about a Jason drowning in a lake just to pick on me in front of everybody. He kept talking about how awesome it was when Jason came up out of the lake and grabbed the girl at the end, but I didn't believe him.

A few years later, when I was 10 years old or so, I had started buying issues of the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, because I was fascinated with movie monsters at that early age. My mother reluctantly allowed me to buy a Famous Monsters Yearbook Issue that had the "melting face" from Raiders of the Lost Ark on the magazine cover, because that was my favorite movie at the time. This Yearbook issue included a huge section on Friday the 13th: Part 2, along with a long play-by-play spoiler-heavy narrative of the entire movie. Since I was too young to see the movie itself, I read this spoiler narrative over and over, marveling at the accompanying photos of the baghead Jason, of the head of Mrs. Voorhees in the refrigerator, of the machete in the face of the wheelchair guy, and such.

The following summer, I remember seeing previews of Friday the 13th: Part 3 on television. I had thought that the baghead Jason photos in the Famous Monsters magazine were incredibly spooky, so I was disappointed by the new look of Jason in the previews for the third movie, and I thought that the hockey mask was the stupidest idea in the world.

Shortly after that, I saw edited-for-television airings of the first two movies, and I was blown away. The second movie, in particular, scared me to death. For some reason, the scene with Jason running across the street in front of the police car freaked me out, and I had nightmares about random figures running across the street in front of me in our wooded neighborhood.

Fast forward a few more years to the mid-1980s...
One of the cable channels aired the first five Friday the 13th movies in sequence, and, since I did not have cable at the time, a friend of mine dubbed all five of the movies onto VHS tapes for me.

My first experience seeing a Friday the 13th film at the theater was when The New Blood was released in 1988.

[Patriot666]

Originally Posted by shaysaysHAHA

If anybody would be willing to sell just the tin for the set, I would pay 25-30 dollars to buy it from you.

I have purchased this set from four various sellers on Amazon/eBay, and all of them have arrived damaged. I also went to Best Buy once and bought one, and it turned out when I unwrapped it, the back of the tin had a huge dent. I couldn't tell that when I bought it because the card thing on the back was covering it.

I know people speak of these "perfect tins" but I don't believe they exist. I've had 5 sets and all the tins had dents and/or scratches.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by Patriot666

I know people speak of these "perfect tins" but I don't believe they exist. I've had 5 sets and all the tins had dents and/or scratches.

Mine was perfect but thats because Amazon shipped it in a box with actual padding.

[Fritz]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Here's a question for everyone reading this thread...

How did you first discover the Friday the 13th movies?

I'll get the ball rolling here...

Back in 1980, when I was only eight years old, some relatives from Alabama came over to our house to stay for the weekend. One of my cousins, who was several years older than me, could not stop talking about this movie, Friday the 13th, that he had seen at the theater the night before. While a bunch of us were playing ping-pong, this cousin excitedly summarized the entire movie with a play-by-play description of all of the kills. I thought that my cousin was making up the whole thing, because my own real name happens to be Jason, and I believed that he was talking about a Jason drowning in a lake just to pick on me in front of everybody. He kept talking about how awesome it was when Jason came up out of the lake and grabbed the girl at the end, but I didn't believe him.

A few years later, when I was 10 years old or so, I had started buying issues of the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, because I was fascinated with movie monsters at that early age. My mother reluctantly allowed me to buy a Famous Monsters Yearbook Issue that had the "melting face" from Raiders of the Lost Ark on the magazine cover, because that was my favorite movie at the time. This Yearbook issue included a huge section on Friday the 13th: Part 2, along with a long play-by-play spoiler-heavy narrative of the entire movie. Since I was too young to see the movie itself, I read this spoiler narrative over and over, marveling at the accompanying photos of the baghead Jason, of the head of Mrs. Voorhees in the refrigerator, of the machete in the face of the wheelchair guy, and such.

The following summer, I remember seeing previews of Friday the 13th: Part 3 on television. I had thought that the baghead Jason photos in the Famous Monsters magazine were incredibly spooky, so I was disappointed by the new look of Jason in the previews for the third movie, and I thought that the hockey mask was the stupidest idea in the world.

Shortly after that, I saw edited-for-television airings of the first two movies, and I was blown away. The second movie, in particular, scared me to death. For some reason, the scene with Jason running across the street in front of the police car freaked me out, and I had nightmares about random figures running across the street in front of me in our wooded neighborhood.

Fast forward a few more years to the mid-1980s...
One of the cable channels aired the first five Friday the 13th movies in sequence, and, since I did not have cable at the time, a friend of mine dubbed all five of the movies onto VHS tapes for me.

My first experience seeing a Friday the 13th film at the theater was when The New Blood was released in 1988.

I went to see it during it's initial run at our local theater. I grew up being a big monster kid and I knew the movie was going to be great, a few of my friends had seen it and they were blown away. I was 14 years old and the first horror movie I went to see at the theater was The Omen when it came out.

[VoorheesBD]

I got my copy courtesy of a generous forum member here who helped me out some time ago and the tin arrived in mint condition however it came with two copies of the final chapter but yeah after all the horror stories regarding dents etc i was very happy, he packaged it up fine, i wouldn't say extra padding or anything, maybe lucky

Cheers V

[Lyle_JP]

I was introduced to Friday the 13th (parts 1-3) through USA Network's "Saturday Nightmares" back in the mid 80's. Yes, the nudity was cut and the swearing dubbed, but USA Network kept every drop of blood (at least, as far as what was in the R-rated cuts), so it wasn't a total loss.

[Markgway]

For me it was a mix of VHS rentals (BBFC censored) and TV screenings (even more censored). Didn't see them uncut until DVD. I would've been about twelve-ish when I saw my first (which, I think, was Jason Lives).

[confusedcrystal]

From what I remember as a child during late night HBO viewings, I had originally thought the F13th franchise was just two films (which turned out to be part 6 and 7) Then as years passed I falsely had assumed there was 13 films total. It wasnt until 1994-96ish thatI discovered many of the films through cable and VHS rentals and got a general idea about the fanchise.
That definitive "look" of Jason that everyone mentions as being in Part 6 and 7 with the mask and being an unstopable monster was my first real discovery for Friday the 13th.

[confusedcrystal]

Originally Posted by Markgway

For me it was a mix of VHS rentals (BBFC censored) and TV screenings (even more censored). Didn't see them uncut until DVD. I would've been about twelve-ish when I saw my first (which, I think, was Jason Lives).

same here about first real uncensored viewings was through DVD. its a shame how much is cut for tv.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by confusedcrystal

same here about first real uncensored viewings was through DVD. its a shame how much is cut for tv.

Thankfully things have changed since the 80s and 90s and horror movies are no longer cut on UK network TV (you can curse and stab as much as you like, even on the BBC!)

That said, it's been forever since any of our five network channels has screened one of the original F13 movies.

Channel 4 have shown the F13 remake a couple of times, and some years ago there was a rubbishy red/blue 3-D screening of Part 3 as part of a dedicated 3-D weekend (which only served to remind me how much I hate 3-D!).

[diceman89]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Mine was perfect but thats because Amazon shipped it in a box with actual padding.

Same here, and it arrived in perfect condition.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by diceman89

Same here, and it arrived in perfect condition.

I know I was shocked that Amazon actually did that.

[Bubba_Hotep]

Got this as a gift, discs are scratched.....

[Viper187]

Originally Posted by Bubba_Hotep

Got this as a gift, discs are scratched.....

What the hell is it going to take to get the individual releases, fixed JGTH, or even for Warner to actually acknowledge there's a ****ing problem here!? Amazon has probably pulled the listing a dozen times now.

[Bubba_Hotep]

Originally Posted by Viper187

What the hell is it going to take to get the individual releases, fixed JGTH, or even for Warner to actually acknowledge there's a ****ing problem here!? Amazon has probably pulled the listing a dozen times now.

It came from blowitoutofhere.com and they are not even responding to my return requests.