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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Jordan Gerblick

They'll do anything but make a new Friday the 13th movie: the first new image of a live-action Jason Voorhees in 16 years comes from a YouTube short sponsored by a cider company

Friday the 13th.

Live-action Jason Voorhees has reared his ugly masked head for the first time in 16 years, and it's all very strangely courtesy of a short film premiering on YouTube and sponsored by the hard cider company Angry Orchard.

When I received the press for release for this, uh, project, in my email, I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing. Friday the 13th franchise rights holder Horror, Inc. has teamed up with Angry Orchard to produce Sweet Revenge, a "short-form vignette" designed to be "the centerpiece of the franchise's bold 45th anniversary campaign."

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