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Animate This! / Jason: The Rebirth / Subterranea February 13, 2009
It’s Friday the 13th! In honor of the theatrical reboot, I’ve remastered my Jason Voorhees fan film for widescreen. It’s never looked so good!
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Every once in a while, I check out what Ari Lehman is up to. He’s been an advocate of my Friday the 13th short film (see past stories on this blog). Ari is a musician whose band, First Jason, has been playing to horror convention crowds — they know him as the 12 year old […]
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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!
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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 […]
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“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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“Jason: The Rebirth” is a modest fan film that was created for entry in the 2003 ManiaFest competition. The judges liked it quite a bit, awarding it second place (with a cash prize!). The producers of the Friday the 13th DVD box set were sponsoring the competition, and for a while it looked like they […]