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Each series had become a losing game, and the only way to do something cool was by doing something different, and each film – the interesting but flawed New Nightmare and the lively and creative Jason X – had that "something different" in spades. The makers of this installment clearly should have taken note of the fact that the last two entries in each franchise ( New Nightmare and Jason X, respectively) went to great pains to separate themselves from the previous films. Jason, and I'm afraid the news isn't good. Which brings us, in a roundabout way, to Freddy Vs.
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Jason: I know these two franchises, their highs and their lows and their throbbing mediocrities, and I happen to like them, even if much of my affection is nostalgic (both series indelibly marked my youth and adolescence) and conceptual (the recognition of some nifty, if half-baked, ideas in both franchises) rather than being a hardcore fan of what's on the screen. Jason I say all this to let you know where I'm coming from when it comes to Freddy Vs. Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger and Ken Kirzinger as Jason in Freddy Vs. That's not to say either series had a sterling track record – the original Friday the 13th and the original Nightmare on Elm Street are the certifiable classics only the cyberpunky Jason X successfully did anything fresh with the Jason formula, and only Elm Streets 3 and 7 (that latter was the post-modern and deconstructionist Wes Craven's New Nightmare) offered any original takes on Freddy. It's no surprise that some notable directors and writers – including Frank Darabont ( The Shawshank Redemption), Renny Harlin ( Cliffhanger), Bruce Wagner (TV's Wild Palms), and splatterpunk novelists John Skipp & Craig Spector ( The Light at the End) – did time in the trenches of the Elm Street franchise early in their careers comparatively, the Friday films seemed to attract mostly fresh-out-of-film-school amateurs (with the exception of FX-wizard Tom Savini for a couple of installments) who brought enthusiasm and little else to the process.
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The two franchises, although routinely slotted together by non-horror fans and critics, actually couldn't be more different: The Jason films tended toward splattery gore and a fair amount of neo-realism (especially in the cheaper, cruder early films) while Freddy's adventures have been substantially more surreal and idea-oriented. Too bad that all of this genuine enthusiasm, anticipation, and fan goodwill is going to have to suffer what is arguably the worst genre disappointment in recent memory.įor those who don't know (though I can't imagine why anyone who didn't would be remotely interested in this movie), Jason Voorhees is the hockey-masked, unstoppable killer of Camp Crystal Lake, who's made a specialty of slaughtering horny co-eds to avenge his own drowning and the death of his mother Freddy Krueger, on the other hand, is a powerful dream demon, the vengeful ghost of a child murderer who escaped legal punishment on a technicality and was burned alive by a vigilante group of parents.Īlthough I have a certain affection for the Friday the 13th films (ten, count 'em, ten entries previous to this installment), the best of them (except the playful Jason X) were never as clever and inventive as even the worst of the Nightmare on Elm Street (seven previous entries) movies. Jason has been almost as enticing the long-rumored and long-in-development Aliens Vs. For many horror movie fans, the prospect of Freddy Vs. So here we are, with the long-awaited smackdown between movie maniacs Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, delivering the merger of the two franchises suggested in the final shot of 1993's otherwise lame Jason Goes to Hell.