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Freddy vs. Jason
File:Freddy Vs. Jason movie.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed byRonny Yu
Written byDamian Shannon, Mark Swift (screenplay)
Wes Craven, Victor Miller (characters)
Produced bySean S. Cunningham
StarringRobert Englund,
Ken Kirzinger,
Monica Keena,
Kelly Rowland
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release dates
USA August 15, 2003
Running time
97 min.
CountryUSA USA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000,000

Freddy vs. Jason is a slasher film that was released in 2003 by New Line Cinema. The film was directed by Ronny Yu. The plot pits Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th series of films) and Freddy Krueger (of the Nightmare on Elm Street series of films) against each other.

Tagline: Winner kills all...

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is stuck in Hell. He is not able to get out of this situation as long as no one remembers him or his crimes. Therefore, he conjures up Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) who is capable of acting in the real world. In the disguise of Jason's mother (Pamela Voorhees, the one person to whom Jason will listen, and never kill), Freddy convinces Jason to kill teenagers living on Elm Street to make the residents of Springwood, Ohio think that Freddy is back.

Jason commits a few murders which are blamed on Freddy. A small group of youths - including Lori Campbell (Monica Keena), her boyfriend Will Rollins (Jason Ritter), Kia (Kelly Rowland), Charlie Linderman (Chris Marquette) and a sheriff's deputy (Lochlyn Munro) - notice that it was not Freddy who had committed the murders. However, when they realize this, it is already too late and the population's fear has made Freddy strong enough to come back from Hell. The group goes back to Weston Hills Asylum where Will Rollins was sent to find Hypnocil (a medicine to keep them from dreaming) so Freddy can't kill them. While there Officer Stubbs is killed when Jason throws him into a broken control board and is electrocuted. Freeburg, their marijuana smoking friend, gets high and is possessed by Freddy who then uses his body to dump all of the hypnocil into the drain, and take two full syringes of tranquilizers and pump them into Jason's neck to put him to sleep so Freddy can kill him. Jason kills Freeburg at this point.

The group takes Jason back to Camp Crystal Lake to "give Jason the hometown advantage" against Freddy. Lori volunteers to be put to sleep as well to pull Freddy out of her dream so Jason can fight him. While sleeping she appears in Jason's nightmare of when he was drowned; she attempts to save Jason but Freddy pulls him under. Kia gives Jason CPR, but as she begins, Jason wakes up and the van crashes near the gate to Camp Crystal Lake. They pull Lori to a cabin and try to wake her up. Meanwhile Lori is stuck in a dream where Freddy takes her in front of her house at the time of her mother's death. It is revealed that Freddy killed her mother, and Freddy traps her and scratches her near her breasts saying "Welcome to my world, bitch, I should warn you princess, the first time tends to get a little...messy." as he pulls up her skirt in an attempt to rape her. Meanwhile, Jason finds the group in the cabin and knocks over an oil lamp causing a fire as well as impaling Linderman on a pole. Meanwhile, in Lori's dream the fire wakes her up and she pulls Freddy into the real world where he must face-off with Jason.

Thus, a bloody fight begins between Jason and Freddy in which Kia is killed by Jason. The film ends with Lori spraying the propane tanks and the dock that they're fighting on with gasoline, and then lighting it causing an explosion. Freddy than appears wielding Jason's machete and his right arm chopped off about to kill Lori and Will. Then at the last minute Jason jumps from the water impaling Freddy with his own severed arm. Lori then decapitates him. The final scene of the film shows Jason carrying Freddy's head out of Crystal Lake. Freddy winks as the head moves by the camera at the end of the film. Template:Endspoilers

Cast

Actors/Actresses Role
Robert Englund Freddy Krueger
Ken Kirzinger Jason Voorhees
Monica Keena Lori Campbell
Jason Ritter Will Rollins
Kelly Rowland Kia Waterson
Chris Marquette Charlie Linderman
Brendan Fletcher Mark Davis
Katharine Isabelle Gibb
Lochlyn Munro Deputy Scott Stubbs
Kyle Labine Bill Freeburg
Tom Butler Dr. Campbell
Gary Chalk Sheriff Williams
David Kopp Blake
Odessa Munroe Heather
Jesse Hutch Trey
Paula Shaw Mrs. Pamela Voorhees
Chris Gauthier Shack

Reception

While a box office success ($82.1 million), the film received mixed reviews among critics, gaining a score of only 39% at RottenTomatoes.com. The plot is often cited as adding no more to the genre, and the characters being standard slasher stock characters.[citation needed] While these elements are argued to be expected in the genre, some critics have expressed the desire for something different in a film that they believe it to be grander than both sets of predecessors and other slasher films.[citation needed]

Trivia

  • Due to the movie's excessive number of violent scenes, Freddy vs. Jason was banned in Malaysia.
  • One draft of the film, as revealed in Crystal Lake Memories, involved Pinhead appearing at the end of the film, where he stops a fight between the two title characters: "Now, gentlemen, what seems to be the problem?"
  • In the scene where Will sees the news at Weston Hills, the name of the station show on the screen is KRGR (an obvious play on "Krueger," and the same station Johnny Depp fell asleep watching in the original Nightmare on Elm Street).
  • Wrestler Rey Mysterio has an uncredited role as Freddy's stunt-Double.
  • Fangoria magazine has had several interviews with Robert Englund and Kane Hodder (a former Jason), asking many times who they thought would win a Freddy vs Jason showdown. There even was an interview involving Englund, Hodder, Angus Scrimm (the Tall Man from Phantasm), and Andrew Divoff (the Djinn from Wishmaster) and asked them who out of all of them would win. The prevailing answer was "it would depend on where they were fighting", and no other answer.
  • During an interview with the cast, they were asked who they thought were better, Freddy or Jason. Most of the cast thought Freddy was the better choice.

Soundtracks

Released in the US on August 12, 2003, the official soundtrack for the film prominently features heavy metal musicians signed to Roadrunner Records.

The soundtrack is perhaps most notable for featuring a large number of songs that were previously unreleased.

Track Listing

† Indicates songs that were previously unreleased.

  1. How Can I Live (Ill Nino)†
  2. When Darkness Falls (Killswitch Engage)†
  3. Beginning of the End (Spineshank)†
  4. Sun Doesn't Rise (Mushroomhead)†
  5. Condemned Until Rebirth (Hatebreed)†
  6. Snap (Slipknot)†
  7. Army of Me (Chimaira)
  8. The After Dinner Payback (From Autumn To Ashes)†
  9. Leech (Sevendust)†
  10. Bombshell (Powerman 5000)
  11. Welcome to the Strange (Murderdolls)†
  12. Out Of My Way (Seether)†
  13. Inside The Cynic (Stone Sour)†
  14. Swinging The Dead (Devildriver)†
  15. The Waste (Sepultura with Mike Patton)†
  16. Middle Of Nowhere (The Blank Theory)
  17. Ether (Nothingface)
  18. Trigger (In Flames)
  19. 11th Hour (Lamb Of God)
  20. We Were (Electrocute) (Type O Negative)

A seperate score by composer Graeme Revell was released two weeks later from Varèse Sarabande.

Score Track Listing

  1. The Legend
  2. The House On Elm Street
  3. Girl With No Eyes
  4. The Psych Ward
  5. Gibb Meets Freddy
  6. Will's Story
  7. French Kiss
  8. The Control Room
  9. Jason's Surprise Attack
  10. Jason's First Dream
  11. Stoner Creature
  12. Freddy's Dream World
  13. Jason Unmasked
  14. In The Library
  15. Freddy Gets Young Jason
  16. Wake Up Lori
  17. Freddy In The Real World
  18. Fight On The Dock
  19. Freddy Express
  20. Is It Ever Over?

Possible sequel

Several ideas for a sequel to the film have been proposed. Many of these involve additional characters from other horror franchises. The use of Bruce Campbell's Ash Williams character from the Evil Dead franchise had been considered, but this idea was halted when Evil Dead creator and director, Sam Raimi, decided against it. However in the special features of the Evil Dead: Regeneration game Bruce Campbell himself says that the rumors are "partially true" and he would be willing to do the movie should it come about. According to an interview with Englund from March of 2006, New Line Cinema had participated in talks with John Carpenter concerning the use of Michael Myers in a sequel.

See also

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