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After waiting for a couple of weeks for the Friday The 13th boxset to arrive I couldnt wait to crack it open and over a couple of weekends watch all the films in the order they were released. But those plans went straight out the window when I opened the set and BOOM old school blue and red 3D glasses and a copy of Part 3 in 3D. Would this be a great nostalgia trip or just look stupid lets have a look
This is not a film review because everyone has seen the Friday the 13th films and you love them or hate them. I love them myself not so keen on Jason X but the rest I have always had a soft spot for them and I always have a good time with them all.
No not a film review I want to talk about the 3D real classic old school 3D. I remember as a kid at Halloween they would give 3D glasses away with the newspaper because they would show some 3D films on tv every Halloween. Every year without fail we would be treated to The Three Stooges so much fun getting poked in the eye smacked in the face with a pie or some household object would come flying through the screen. Thats 3D not what we pay stupid prises to watch at the cinema. My idea of 3D is not "oh look im surrounded by foliage" my idea is " Holy shit the film is coming out to try and get me ".
I was unsure how well it would work when on Blu Ray on a wide screen TV would it recapture the magic I remember from my childhood or would it hurt my eyes looking through these funny coloured glasses and look stupid. I was excited and a little worried.
The film starts and we are notified that the first few minutes will not be in 3D as we get some flash backs to Friday The 13th Part 2. The wait continues my mind is racing I am like the 12 years sitting in my grandparents house again waiting for Moe , Larry and Curly to burst on the screen and hit me with something. The few minutes of the flashback drag I want to skip the scene and put myself out of my misery but I wait. The title shows up and we are in to the 3D action. It feels strange on my eyes for the first few minutes but soon that passed when bed sheets blowing on the washing line appear like they are about to brush across my face. I feel like I am standing in the garden I can almost feel the soft cotton brushing my face. Then out of nowhere the first big moment the pole for the washing line is lift and it comes straight through the screen it makes me move to the right to avoid it myself and my girlfriend burst out laughing like schoolgirls in the playground. We are barely given a second to compose ourselves when a TV aerial is adjusted on top of a TV set and it whips across the screen making us duck again once again we are laughing our asses of this is awesome and there is plenty more where that came from
I paid €113 with p&p for this set and I got my monies worth just by watching one film from the set. It took us back to our childhood and gave us a thrill that modern 3D just can never recapture it maybe cheesy having a knife fly out at you or a snake pop out of the screen but this is what horror is about giving you a thrill a scare a jump and a good time. Even if you are not the biggest fan of the series this is worth a watch if you get the chance just for the chance to be excited just a kid for 90 minutes.
Films are not always to be judged on acting or plot or from a technical point of view some films are to be judged by how they make you feel and where they take you maybe to a time and place where you sat around a small TV with you friends as a teenager watching a mangled VHS of a horror you were not supposed to watch but the oldest guy in the group managed to rent it from the local video store or your first time you took a lady friend to the cinema to see a horror you were both too young to get in and see but your dodgy pubescent facial hair all four strands of it fooled the guy at the ticket office.
We need more of this 3D
Film 8/10
3D Fun 10/10