Sometime in the last few weeks, Jason: The Rebirth passed 10,000 hits on YouTube. Who knew so many horror fans would happen across the video?
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!
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
“Jason: The Rebirth” now has a listing at Fanfilms.net. It’s a great directory of fanfilms, with links to filmmakers’ websites and online content.
Visit www.fanfilms.net
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.
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
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