Merrick here...

Last Friday, we got our first glimpse of Jason as he appeared in the new FRIDAY THE 13th film (the image ca,e from the current Entertainment Weekly). The shot shows Jason from a considerable distance & it's hard to make out any details.

In our initial posting about the image (HERE), I encouraged readers to take a stab at enlarging the image with whatever digitalish photo-trickery they had at their disposal. After all, a chance to get a glimpse of a newly Bayified 80's mass murdering pop icon was too good to pass up. We received many attempts at image enhancement & I truly appreciate the time and effort folks extended in this regard.

Alas, to a significant degree, the ability to enlarge an image is only as good as the resolution of the source image...and the "new Jason" pic that hit the nets Friday was of neither the highest resolution or best quality. As such, many the enlargements we received were never quite "there" in terms of being able to adequately distinguish details and what not.

However, a reader named J.J. Jeepers sent in this image late Friday afternoon.

We got this at roughly the same that Shock Till You Drop posted an enlargement of the same material, so I'm not sure how all of this went down chronologically. Whatever happened, you can still go to Shock Till You Drop for an even embiggender version of this pic by clicking HERE.

Thanks to everyone who worked to bring us a better image of Jason...including the Shock Till You Drop folks...and here's a clear & respectable shot of Jason from Nispel's FRIDAY THE 13th relaunch for your consideration:

Yes, all of this should've been dealt with over the weekend. I was experiencing MARATHON MAN-level dental pain that wasn't adequately alleviated until late last night.