Jason: The Rebirth from Mike Boas on Vimeo.

Hey, it’s not a runaway viral phenomenon, but it feels good anyway.

Check it out and leave me a comment if you so desire!

It’s rewarding to even be considered for such a list, [...]]]> I was quite pleased to open my email this morning and find a message from Sergio Gaviño, who writes for Spain’s CineFantastico.com. He informed me that Jason: The Rebirth was ranked number three in their article on the 12 Best Fan Films online.

It’s rewarding to even be considered for such a list, which contains such notable fanfilms as Troops, Grayson, Batman: Dead End, and World’s Finest.

Here’s their fanfilm rundown:

12) TROOPS
Kevin Rubio, 1997

11) CATWOMAN: COPYCAT
Collin Blakeston, 2006

10) FIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE
AMDS Films, 2006

9) FAST TIMES AT HERO HIGH
Kyle Peck, 2003

8 ) BATMAN LEGENDS
Aaron Schoenke, 2006

7) STAR WARS: REVELATIONS
Shane Felux, 2005

6) LOBO PARAMILITARY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Scott Leberecht, 2002

5) WATCHMEN: PAGE 5
Bryant Hodson, 2005

4) BATMAN: DEAD END
Sandy Collora, 2003

3) JASON: THE REBIRTH
Mike Boas, 2003

2) GRAYSON
John Fiorella, 2004

1) WORLD’S FINEST
Sandy Collora, 2004

If you want links to each film, or you read Spanish and want to see what they’ve got to say, visit CineFantastico.com

Visit www.fanfilms.net

From Fanboy Theatre:

“This short is meant to fill in the gap between Firday The 13th 1 & 2 and it does just that. Using an scratchy and loose drawing style with a limited color palatte really gives [...]]]> A careful search of the internet has yielded a couple more reviews of “Jason: The Rebirth.”

From Fanboy Theatre:

“This short is meant to fill in the gap between Firday The 13th 1 & 2 and it does just that. Using an scratchy and loose drawing style with a limited color palatte really gives this film an eerie feeling, and Mr. Boas even uses actual music from the original Friday The 13th films adding more to the overall coolness of the short. Very brave, very unique, and a damn fine Fan Film. I would have liked this short to be a tad longer, but sometimes in the world of Fan Films that can become a bad thing and ruin the finished product. Nope, this one is definitely a keeper, Awesome stuff!”

And here’s some thoughts on franchise animation from VisibleH20.com:

“I found this (Jason Animation) inventive and fun. I hope that someday we will see much more animation for such works. Perhaps many such works that are awaiting new creative juices to flow, should be animated until better scripts and or creators are at hand. Take The Batman, for instance, the Cartoons continued with or without the live action movie. It took ten years or so for Batman to Return.”

Lastly, I see that “Jason” is listed with other F13 fanfilms at scabboy.net.

Peter Sciretta writes:

“The animation is better than you’d expect, with a style of its own”

TDavid writes:

“That washed out green/black texture for the fanfilm has its own dark flavor to it. This is actually much better than [...]]]> Cinematical.com has been running features on fan films lately, and “Jason: The Rebirth” made the cut.

Peter Sciretta writes:

“The animation is better than you’d expect, with a style of its own”

TDavid writes:

“That washed out green/black texture for the fanfilm has its own dark flavor to it. This is actually much better than I thought it would be.”

I suppose the trick is to keep people’s expectations really low, so they’re pleasantly surprised with the film itself…

Read the story at http://www.cinematical.com/2005/06/11/fanfilm-jason-the-rebirth

“Yours and Rupert Takes Manhattan were winners. Yours screened on a 10 foot screen facing Hollywood blvd. all night (looped) on Thurs. night a ‘coming attraction’ for the weekend. It was a cool spectacle.”

So [...]]]> The “Friday the 13th” 25th anniversary celebration was a big success. I heard from Eben, convention head honcho:

“Yours and Rupert Takes Manhattan were winners. Yours screened on a 10 foot screen facing Hollywood blvd. all night (looped) on Thurs. night a ‘coming attraction’ for the weekend. It was a cool spectacle.”

So I’m imagining unsuspecting passers-by walking down Hollywood Boulevard, being subjected to my strange little cartoon. Pretty wild. This sort of response makes me want to get my next shorts out to festivals as soon as possible.