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‘Friday the 13th’ Blu-ray Edition Announced!
Blu-ray.com reports this morning that Paramount Home Entertainment has officially announced that they will bring Friday the 13th Unrated: Deluxe Edition to Blu-ray on February 3rd, day-and-date with the DVD re-release. Technical specs have yet to be announced, but you can expect the usual Paramount treatment of 1080p video accompanied by a Dolby TrueHD soundtrack. Still no word on a box set.
Extras have also yet to be announced for the Blu-ray, but it should mirror the DVD release which includes:
Commentary: Commentary by director Sean Cunningham (on the WB international version – trying to access)
Fresh Cuts: New Tales from “Friday the 13th”
Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham
Friday the 13th – Special Reunion
Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 1
Theatrical Trailer – Used on 2004 release
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.