Friday The 13Th Workprint Download It Somewhere

This workprint version is missing the soundtrack, some special effects and has multiple reel changes.

The workprint also has a couple alternate and longer shots that are not present in the DVD release.

Quality has been well preserved and only has some minor quality loss.

The workprint has Peg watching Ned behead the snake, while the DVD shows Ned beheading the garden snake.

I dont think Ive ever seen him looking so lanky before, especially considering how huge he got for Showdown in Little Tokyo just 2 years later.

I was only recently made aware that there was even a workprint edition of this film in existence, and it was completely by accident.

Friday The 13Th Workprint Download It Somewhere

Only thing is, apparently its really only readily available in Germany, unless you feel confident enough to try and download it somewhere on the internet without getting a nasty virus.

In my case, I need to thank my good buddy and fellow filmgeek Ingo (who lives in Germany) over at Hellford 667 Movie Reviews for hooking me up with a copy.

Youre the best You know, I was always suspicious of there being an alternate cut, or in the least, some deleted scenes floating around somewhere.

They were never presented on the standard and only U.S.

DVD release, but even as far back as the VHS release, theres an image of Dolph as Frank Castle in his street clothes standing on a dark street holding a gun with his partner Jake standing next to him and Sam (who would show up in the film as a detective who teams up with Jake because she also believes Frank Castle is in fact The Punisher), dressed as an undercover prostitute on the back cover.

However that scene is not in the final cut of the film, even though its specifically mentioned when Sam introduces herself to Jake in the beginning of the film as he is investigating the house that The Punisher just blew up.

Right in the beginning, before were shown any familiar footage from the regular U.S.

Frank Castle before he became The Punisher.

Right of the bat were shown Frank and his partner Jake during a stakeout waiting for a deal to go down in a warehouse with Sam undercover as a prostitute inside.

We see them talk, joke and banter back and forth giving us a much clearer definition of there relationship before Frank went AWOL.

And you see they were in fact best friends, one would say even more like brothers.

Afterwards we see Frank go home to his waiting wife and family as it moves onto the next morning where Frank is at home getting ready for work when Jake shows up to pick up his partner and they head off to the airport to put the heat on Franco.

Franco, incensed that Castle is trying to shake him orders a hit.

As Frank and Jake are heading back to Franks house, we see his family getting into the family car where they are supposed to meet up with Frank later at a party where it ultimately blows up just as Frank and Jake are pulling up.

Frank runs to the car and bangs on the window (this scene is actually shown in a flashback sequence in the U.S.

Cut to the scene where Moretti (One of Francos men) is leaving the courthouse after being released as hes interviewed by a female reporter before getting into a waiting limousine with The Punisher watching from his motorcycle nearby.

And thats where the film resumes to the regular U.S.

DVD release.

For me, it shows The Punisher was actually a human being capable of feeling actual emotions.

Whether or not thats something you want to actually see is a different story.

I mean, we kinda knew he had some kind of soul since the only reason he even got involved in the whole mess to begin with was because he was going to rescue the children of the all the mob bosses who had been kidnapped by the Yakuza.

More than anything though, it was cool and kinda strange seeing Frank wearing a bright blue suit as he goes to work as a detective.

Hes shaven, clean cut and more than anything, just plain clean and healthy looking.

Although its in these deleted sequences that we see how strangely thin Dolph Lundgren was when he made this.