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Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong>\u00a0 (2003)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 97 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content, teen drug and alcohol use, partying)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ronny Yu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Damian Shannon and Mark Swift\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Graeme Revell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Fred Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 15, 2003 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland, Christopher George Marquette, Brendan Fletcher, Lochlyn Munro, Katharine Isabelle, Kyle Labine, Tom Butler, Zack Ward, Gary Chalk, Jesse Hutch, David Kopp, Paula Shaw.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $82.5 million (US)\/$114.8 million (World)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 20<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As a slasher movie fan, I dreamed about how cool a fight between horror icons Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger would be. A crossover between the Friday the 13th<\/sup> and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises had been in and out of development since \u201987. The final moments of Jason Goes to Hell indicated that such a flick was imminent, but it took Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong> an additional ten years to materialize.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0When it finally opened, I could barely contain my excitement. I took the day off from my job so I could attend the very first showing that Friday afternoon. Much to my delight, it was every bit as epic as I hoped it would be. Opinions vary as to whether Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong> counts as an F13 or NOES flick. I count it among the former myself. Either way, it totally rocks. For one thing, director Ronnie Yu (Bride of Chucky) doesn\u2019t skimp on the red stuff. The blood flows, squirts, shoots and splatters. This picture is knee deep in it. Now for the bad news. It\u2019s mainly the CGI kind. Sadly, the movie buys into the whole CGI movement which sucks because it takes something crucial away from the experience. Call me old-fashioned, but I\u2019ll take the cheesy effects from the original 1984 NOES any day. To me, they look more real and far scarier than anything a computer can generate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It\u2019s been a long time since Freddy (Englund) terrorized the Elm Street teens and he\u2019s feeling itchy. The adults have made sure that he\u2019s a forgotten figure from the past as a way of preventing their kids from bringing him back through their nightmares. This has rendered him powerless and trapped in Hell. In order to regain his powers, he manipulates Jason (Kirzinger) into doing his bloody work for him. In disguise as Pamela Voorhees (Shaw), he tells Jason that the kids of Elm Street have been bad and need to be taught a lesson. He sends Jason topside to claim a few victims hoping that it will inspire enough fear to give him back his powers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0There\u2019s a new family living at 1428 Elm Street. Lori (Keena, Undeclared) lives there with her widowed father (Butler, Renegades) and is on her own for the night. She\u2019s entertaining a group of friends- Gibb (Isabelle, Ginger Snaps), Kia (Destiny\u2019s Child member Rowland), Trey (Hutch, The Butterfly Effect) and Blake (Kopp)- when the trouble starts. Jason shows up and murders Trey right after he and Gibb have sex. Lori knows right away something\u2019s up by the peculiar behavior of the police. They\u2019re hiding something, namely they think they know who did it. Since it\u2019s not in the town\u2019s best interest to even speak Krueger\u2019s name, they come up with a cover story and hope the matter will be dropped. Not bloody likely!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0At a nearby psychiatric hospital, Lori\u2019s ex-boyfriend Will (Ritter, Parenthood) finds out about the murders in his old neighborhood and escapes with his friend and fellow patient Mark (Fletcher, Rampage). The two head back to Springwood to tell the others about Freddy and inadvertently make the problem worse. Now that the teens are terrified, Freddy regains his powers and no longer needs Jason. Unfortunately, Jason is bent on continuing his latest killing spree. This creates quite a problem between the two slashers with Lori and her friends right in the middle of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The fights between Freddy and Jason are awesome! The former has his bladed glove while the latter wields his trademark machete. I\u2019m glad to see that writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift came up with an intelligent way to bring Freddy and Jason together. Not only that, they make excellent use of each one\u2019s abilities- Freddy going back and forth between dreams and the real world and Jason\u2019s indestructibility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong> is the coolest horror movie match-up since Godzilla met King Kong in \u201962. It\u2019s one of the rare instances where a highly anticipated movie lives up to fans\u2019 expectations. It could just as easily gone the opposite way a la Phantom Menace. I like that the makers assembled a decent cast for this outing. Keena is such a good actress and so underappreciated. Rowland makes a pretty good debut with her first acting role. Ritter obviously inherited his father\u2019s (the late John Ritter) gift for the craft. Englund is awesome as usual in the role that made him famous. It doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019s bored with the character at all. Kirzinger makes a decent Jason, but Hodder\u2019s absence is still felt (he played the role four times!).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The score by Graeme Revell is also quite good. You almost don\u2019t notice that Harry Manfredini isn\u2019t involved with this installment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As for the killings, the highlights are as follows: a man get folded in half backwards on a bed after being stabbed repeatedly, a teen is cut in half, a decapitation, a teen gets impaled on a shelf bracket, a man is crushed by a metal door and many teens at a rave are slashed by a machete (lots of blood spray!). But the real highlight is the knock-down, drag-out fight between Freddy and Jason in the movie\u2019s final act. Believe me when I say it\u2019s a real doozy!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Also believe me when I say Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong> is freaking awesome! This is what a mad slasher flick is supposed to be. It neatly combines aspects of both franchises into one cohesive story. It\u2019s exceptionally well-made and a great way to close the series (at least for now). I want to see more F13 flicks. Specifically, official entries in the series and NOT a remake or a reboot like the 2009 abomination. Freddy vs. Jason<\/strong> is the best F13 flick since Jason Lives. Truly a modern slasher classic!<\/p>\r\n Freddy vs. Jason\u00a0 (2003)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 97 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity, sexual content, teen drug and alcohol use, partying)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Ronny Yu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Damian Shannon and Mark Swift\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Graeme Revell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Fred Murphy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 15, 2003 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Freddy-vs.-Jason-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Freddy-vs.-Jason-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C866&ssl=1\")
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