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Alex Aja’s Becomes a ‘Sleepwalker’
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen anything from French genre director Alex Aja, who is currently in post on his latest, The 9th Life of Louis Drax.
The filmmaker behind Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha 3D and Horns has lined up his next, Sleepwalker.
Sleepwalker, which involves a sleep lab study, is penned by Jonathan Hirschbein, who wrote the Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe-led action/drama Bad Country and Jason Momoa’s directorial debut Road to Paloma.
Ian Bryce and Jason Blum are producing.
It was back in the Summer of 2025 that the Jason Universe partnered up with Angry Orchard Hard Cider to launch the 13-minute short film Sweet Revenge, the first official Jason Voorhees film project since the Friday the 13th remake way back in 2009. But it wasn’t long after the promotion ended that Sweet Revenge was pulled from YouTube entirely.
If you missed it or you’ve been hungry to watch it again, you’ll be happy to know that Sweet Revenge is now once again streaming in its entirety on the Jason Universe YouTube channel!
What is Sweet Revenge, you ask? It was described as a “vignette” by the team but it’s really a full-on short film that served to introduce the new Jason Universe branding as well as the fresh new redesign for the Jason Voorhees character. It was also part of a larger partnership between Jason Universe and Angry Orchard Hard Cider, with special Jason Universe-branded Angry Orchard beverages and 12-packs being released in stores last Halloween season.
Actor and stuntman Schuyler White wears the iconic hockey mask in Sweet Revenge, which comes courtesy of director Mike P. Nelson (Silent Night, Deadly Night).
We wrote in our review of Sweet Revenge last summer, “Sweet Revenge is a promising step in the right direction that should restore any lost faith in the franchise. Beyond tiding viewers over until Peacock’s Crystal Lake prequel series, the vignette begs for expansion.”
Our review continued, “Presented as something of an urban legend, with the area’s troubled past alluded to without any specifics, Jason is played with urgency by stunt coordinator Schuyler White. This version of Jason harkens back to his early appearances as a lean killing machine rather than a hulking, undead monster.”
Watch Sweet Revenge below and expect more from “Crystal Lake” real soon.
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