People must be dying to see remakes of slasher flicks, based on how fast Hollywood keeps churning them out. The latest is the "rebooted" "Friday the 13th," which hits theaters on Friday, uh, the 13th. Which means, of course, that a new DVD of the original 1980 film also is out in stores.
The so-called deluxe edition of "Friday the 13th" (Paramount, $17; also Blu-ray, $30) features an uncut version of the movie for the first time. Look closely at the small print, though, and you'll see that the unrated footage totals just 10 seconds -- just a few extra blood-spurting moments in several killing scenes.
There's a simple reason, said Adrienne King, who starred in director Sean Cunningham's cult classic.
"There wasn't a whole lot left on the cutting room floor after we had shot it," she explained in a call from her home in southern Oregon. "That first one was strictly independent, and every penny they had was basically up on the screen."
Such anecdotes pepper the DVD's commentary track -- which includes King, Cunningham and others -- as well as an hour's worth of featurettes.
King played Alice, who survives the carnage in the first film only to meet a horrible fate in the opening scene of the sequel.
"It was so much fun," she said about filming all that mayhem. "Isn't that weird to say? But it was so much fun. Then when we shot at night, it became gruesome."
The new uncut version of the original film isn't the only DVD riding on the coattails of killer Jason Voorhees, whose legend haunts the horny teens of Camp Crystal Lake. Also out is a special edition of "Friday the 13th, Part 2," and, for the first time, a real 3-D presentation of "Friday the 13th, Part 3," with glasses ($17 each). All three DVDs feature new surround-sound mixes.
