World Famous Comics: Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th
By: Peter M. Bracke Publisher: Titan Books Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Titan Books Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 11, 2006 Release Date: October 01, 2006
Product Description: When "Friday the 13th" premiered in 1980, the film introduced moviegoers to a new kind of cinematic terror - shocking, visceral, graphic and relentless. Spawning ten popular sequels to date, the series has become the most successful horror franchise of all time, and the character of 'Jason' an icon known around the world as the first name in evil. Now, uncensored and in their own words, over 200 alumni of the series recall a quarter-century's worth of behind-the-scenes stories - the struggles, feuds, foibles, controversies and calamities. Fully illustrated with nearly 600 never-before-seen photos, rare archival documents and production materials, this huge hardback volume is the ultimate oral and visual memoir of the series - a must-have for fans and cinema historians alike.
A must have for any Friday fan! This is a wonderful book that is a must have. It is packed with interviews with the actors , directors and production crew from all the Friday The 13th films. The photos are awesome, with inside information on how important scenes were filmed. It is very well constructed and the print is high quality. With the upcoming release on 2/13/09 of the new Friday film , it is even more reason to get it now where you can relive this great horror series.
friday the 13th book... If you are a fan of these movies, then this book is definately for you. Lots of detail about each movie, and loads of cool pictures. Don't be scared buy it !!!
If Your Memories of Each Movie Aren't Crystal Clear This Book Will Bring Them Back but it Could Have been Done Better! Friday the 13th was my favourite horror series as a kid and nothing has been made since to take its place. This book takes the reader back to where it all began and gives us an insight into each subsequent sequel made after, even the controversial taking Jason away from Camp Crystal Lake direction films such as Jason X and the changing body snatcher style killer for most of the film Jason Goes to Hell where you'd think those responsible wouldn't want to talk about, but no there's plenty of stuff on both. The final film covered is Freddy verse Jason which at the time of this review was also the latest movie in the franchise (although on the movie timeline Jason X is set later).
My main problem with this book is that although obviously well researched (the hard part for the writer) it isn't well written. All we've basically got is a cut and paste job of transcripts from interviews with the cast and crew. It's almost as if Peter Bracke and the publishing company Titan Books had taken a while to gather their information, were getting a lot of "when is this book going to be published" type demands from hardcore fan and instead of telling them to be patient and actually writing the book they just gave in and said, well they'll buy it anyway and published the quotes instead of writing an account of each film and including the quotes in the articles. This theory also would explain the more than you'd expect amount of typos and obvious grammatical errors, you'd expect any editor who spent any time would have picked up.
A further downside is that a lot of these quotes are exactly the same as on the DVD commentaries, or which have appeared in other mediums such as magazine articles and no further elaboration or going back and asking the quoter further unanswered on points they've made questions have been done. But even without additional material having to delve through quotes to find information you are after is not the easiest way to read a book.
There are a lot of great photographs and a lot of good and interesting information on the making of and marketing of each film is in here, just the finding that info is sometimes a bit difficult. The book is good for reliving the memories from the films or Jason killing certain characters especially if you were having a conversation with someone and you want to be certain which sequel such and such occurred in.
It also only very briefly (just talks about four young adult novels) delves into the massive Friday the 13th world outside of the films. It doesn't mention the growing number of Jason Voorhees action dioramas and figures on the market or the inspired by the films adult fiction novels out there at all.
I have this book, at the time of this review it has more information than any other non fiction Friday the 13th book out there. I recommend it for any fan of the greatest slasher horror films ever made. I don't plan on getting rid of it until something better comes along but that's the point. The author and publishers have left the door wide open for something better to come along. If they'd spent a little bit more time and effort on this project there would be no need for Friday the 13th fans to be looking for something better.
Excellet Friday the 13th 'All you need to know' book! Having grown up on the Friday the 13th movies I had been wanting this book for a while. I decided to throw don the $$$ and I'm glad I did.
This is an excellent book and a true must have for any fans of the series. You can see why and how they ended up making both the good (Jason Lives) and bad moves (Jason Goes to Manhattan) in the series.
I do wish they had more pictures of the cast though. I had to keep looking up names to go with the little images they had. But still a great book!
Friday the 13th (On your coffee table) Wow! This is one amazing book. If you have any interest at all in the Friday the 13th movies, you have to buy this book. If you have a friend or relative who loves horror movies, you have to buy this book. This would make one hell of a gift for a horror freak. The book covers absolutely everything on every single Friday the 13th movie! Every aspect of each film and the entire filming process is in this book. A great book about a great franchise of the horror genre.
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