Arrow Video‘s September slate is – as always – a veritable feast for genre fans, featuring Japanese crime dramas, giallo thrillers and, perhaps most excitingly of all for horror fans, 2009’s Friday the 13th on 4K UHD.
Mark Nispel’s remake of the 1980 slasher classic stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears.
One of the more successful remakes from the 2000s horror boom, Friday the 13th racked up $92,670,237 worldwide, and follows:
Clay Miller (Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Righetti), who is captured by Jason Voorhees (Mears) while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake.
The recent Crystal Lake news means this has been a pretty bad couple of weeks of news for Friday the 13th fans, but this announcement means things are certainly looking up.
Arrow’s limited edition release will contain two cuts of the film, the Theatrical Cut (97 mins) and the extended Killer Cut (105 mins). Addition special features (full list below) include a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin, as well as a collector’s booklet with new essays and writing.
Here’s what you can expect to slash into on Disc One…
DISC ONE: THEATRICAL CUT 4K (2160p)
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the Theatrical Cut
- Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by director Marcus Nispel
- Brand new audio commentary by writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
- Brand new interview with director Marcus Nispel
- Brand new interview with writers Mark Swift and Damian Shannon
- Brand new interview with cinematographer Daniel Pearl
- A Killer New Beginning, an exclusive video essay about why horror fans shouldn’t fear remakes, what 2009’s Friday the 13th remake gets right, and why the film serves as a perfect template for future franchise remakes by film critic Matt Donato
- Excerpts from the Terror Trivia Track
- The Rebirth of Jason Voorhees archival featurette
- Hacking Back / Slashing Forward archival featurette
- The 7 Best Kills archival featurette
- Deleted scenes
- Original teaser, trailer and TV spots
- Electronic press kit
- Image gallery
And as for Disc Two…
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the Killer Cut
- Original 5.1 DTSHD Master Audio sound
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
Arrow’s limited edition of Friday the 13th will release on September 17 and can be pre-ordered here.
