Movie Review - Freddy Vs Jason (2003)

Freddy Vs Jason (2003)

Freddy Krueger: [narrating] My children... from the very beginning, it was the children who gave me my power. The Springwood Slasher, that's what they called me. My reign of terror was legendary. Dozens of children would fall by my blades. Then the parents of Springwood came for me, taking justice into their own hands. When I was alive, I might have been a little naughty, but after they killed me, I became something much, much worse. The stuff nightmares are made of. The children still feared me, and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams, and that's when the fun REALLY began. Until they figured out a way to forget about me. To erase me completely. Being dead wasn't a problem, but being forgotten, now that's a BITCH. I can't come back if nobody remembers me. I can't come back if nobody's afraid. I had to search the bowels of Hell, but I found someone, someone who'll make 'em remember. He may get the blood, but I'll get the glory, and that fear is my ticket home.

Omg the excitement this movie envokes in me when i think about it, i mean what isn't there to love when you blend to of the most iconic stalk n slash killers of all time, in Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees!!!, it makes me laugh cry and squeal with glee, when the blood starts to squirt squish and splatter across the screen i feel that big grin spead across my face and i sit back and enjoy the carnage that follows !!

Having read only a couple of reviews on the IMDB.com website, it gets mostly good reviews especially from the hardcore Freddy and Jason fans, and like most of them i wandered from the start whether they could ever make this work, that they could combine the two stories well enough to make it blend into some semblances of a watchable movie.

and thank god for small mercy's they made it work well together, the idea of the story starting with krugers little speech (see above) as he raises Jason from his watery grave to set him loose on elm street to make them remember him, when Jason stumbles onto Lori and her friends drinking at her house and one of her friends disappears up stairs with her boyfriend where we get the typical tit shot sex scene, that ends in the poor guy getting stabbed in the bed then bent in half by Jason when his girlfriend comes out of the bathroom and finds him screaming we cut to her running out of the house in just a towl covered in blood and her friends race after her they then flag down a passing police man.

When the police are called in it sets off a chain of events when Lori over hears the Police Chief speaking to another officer mentioning the name Freddy Kruger and she slowly starts to remember him, reminding all her friends and school mates around her, we get the typical party scene with death and carnage as Jason goes stab happy on a bunch of drunk and passed out teens much to the dismay of Freddy when Jason stabs the girl he goes after, the kids slowly start putting two and two together when Mark (Lori long lost love who vanished without even saying goodbye) breaks out of an institution he'd been admitted to with his friend Mark because they where the ones who remembered Freddy and where locked away and given drugs to stop them from dreaming, so when Will realizes whats been happening they head to the institution to steal the drugs to keep them drom dreaming and keep Freddy at bay.

Of course their plan is thwarted by freddy and Jason shows up to, to do a bit of slicing and dicing, till Lori formulates a plan to bring Jason back to his home turf of crystal lake and bring freddy out of her dreams into real life and set Freddy and Jason against each other which then leads to the inevitable show down that is done well a set up perfectly.

Freddy though seeming to be more pivotal in the movie then Jason doesn't really get much kill, Jason does all the slaughtering in his big mute hulking scary way that he does, even at times when Freddy's going in for the kill he's too weak, or Jason gets them before freddy does, but even still the friday the 13th movies where always the best for a good kill scene where as freddy was the best for the scary nightmare scenes of bloody pouring out of places and down walls and those creepy children playing jump rope singing that freddy song.

The actors do a well enough job and they seemed to be enjoying it too, Kelly rowlands was a stand out for me as the witty token black girl with an attitude to boot, shes the typical final girls best friend, whos there right up till the very end till Jason steps in and stomps her out, as he does best of course. The nerdy guy whos sweet and misunderstood and in love with the final girl, who plays loyal puppy dog till he takes a blow from Jason, Will the dependable boyfriend who was sent away becuase he knew too much about Freddy adn they couldn't let him infect any of the other teenagers in town, and his friend Mark whos with him, who believes Freddy is real when everyone else doesn't because Freddy killed his older brother but everyone believed it was just a suicide.

Theres enough blood splatter for the avid slasher fan who, like myself, love their gore, the showdown is probably the ultimate scene and the most scrutinized scene in the movie thankfully it was made over the top, and when you match to unkillable killers against each other ya wander where can they really go with that, but the face that Freddy slashes up Jason with his own knife and Jason stabs Freddy with his own severed hand it was well done in my terms of the simple minded fanatic that i am.

There honestly isn't anything i can complain about with this movie, the only thing i didn't like about it was they killed of Mark who was the one all along warning Will that Freddy was real and his charactor to me was just to likeable that his brother had been killed by Freddy that Will had never stopped believing in him but couldn't dream about him because of the drugs they were taking in the institution. i would've liked to at least seen him in the final scenes with Lori and Will, maybe he could've been killed in the cross fire of Jason and Freddy show down or something like that, or even better he could've been a survior too an instead could've killed of Will cause i didn't really like him as the final guy that much, he didn't seem all that... right i guess.

though the whole back story of him thinking Lori father had killed Lori mother and discovering the truth at the end worked well to understand WHY he'd been institutinalised, but honestly i really am just nit picking at a movie that doesn't really have any flaws to it that i could see, it had EVERYTHING a slasher film enthusiaust could ask for, theres the nudity the sex the drugs the random back story the token black charactor the vriginal final girl, the heroic guy, the nerd, the slut and the knowledgable guy that NO ONE listens too ( i mean when are people going to start realizing when the crazy person tells you someones gonna stab you if you go in there that maybe you should LISTEN TO THEM!!)

and of course theres enough blood splashing across teh screen to make any genre fan swoon with happiness and joy as i do everytime i watch this movie, its a well blended movie of two iconic charactors that have been immortilazed on screen for so many years, and i hope that the rumours that have been floating around since 2006 of a sequeal will soon become a reality because there is definatly room to make this movie become even bigger and even better and what genre fanatic can get enough of Freddy or Jason i ask you !!! maybe they could throw in some micheal myers for good affect hehe.

So if you've watched every Firday move and Seen all the Freddy Gems, then maybe its time to throw down some Freddy Vs Jason and to feel that joy and happiness as you sit back and watch the blood fly and squish and splash all over the place and the fun ensue and the show down of all show downs occurs right before your very eyes and sob with Glee this is a DEFINATE must see for any genre fan and i'm pretty sure every fan out there has seen it so if you haven't then SEE IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[after seeing Jason at the rave]
Kia Waterson: Was that him? The guy you were talking about... Freddy Krueger?
Lori Campbell: No, that wasn't the guy in my dream. That was somebody else.
Charlie Linderman: Who cares about some fucking dream guy, okay? That psycho in the hockey mask was real.
Bill Freeburg: Dude, that goalie was pissed about something.