This is going to be a weird one as there are so many things that I am potentially going to pull off this movie and explain what was bad and all the while there is 77% up at the top of this statements. I will bring in the scores now as it got 5.7/10 from IMDb and that was generous compared to 41% from Rotten Tomatoes. Released after both Freddy’s and Jason’s stories had appeared to run its course in 2003. It stars of course Robert Englund with Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Jason Ritter, Chris Marquette & Lochlyn Munro. This was a crossover movie as the epic villains of Elm’s Street’s Freddy Kruger comes face to face with Friday the 13th or Camp Crystal Lake’s Jason Voorhees what could possibly go wrong. It was directed by Ronny Yu who had become renown as a good director back in Hong Kong and we given the reigns of Bride of Chucky and the 51st State before being given this epic concept of a movie. It was a success at the box office returning a figure of $116.6m from a production budget of $30m so it was a success there, it just dipped in likeness there-after. It did signify the last appears of Robert Englund as Freddy on the big screen which is a sad thing as he made that role his. I am trying to think of an equal and Tim Curry’s pennywise in the TV version of It is all I got.
The plot follows on from the Final ever, cross our hearts this really is the last ever Nightmare on Elm street Freddy Kruger movie honest gov’na (so please come and see it) movie that turned out to not be the last Freddy Kruger movie after all as this one came along. Well at the end of that one Freddy had been banished to hell an left to rot because he was forgotten by the children of Springwood. Freddy hatches a plan to use Jason Voorhees to go to Elm Street and kill anyone there just for him to take credit and grow stronger. Hopefully strong enough to come back into the world he loves to destroy. So, releasing Jason on an unsuspecting population. The police and media is out to suppress the reports but Freddy is growing stronger and ready to come back. Freddy is back but not strong enough to kill yet and lines up his first victim only for Jason to kill them in their sleep thus removing Freddy’s opportunity to grow strong. Realising what was going on those plucky kids get a plan to bring Freddy back to their world to fight with Jason. The two finally get to do what the whole horror fandom wanted as the two do battle firstly in a dream world where Freddy holds the upper hand and then at Camp Crystal Lake. But this is what we all wanted isn’t it!! Two icons of horror duking it out.
Well no I didn’t, many crossovers stink of desperation of two or at least one failing franchises and in this case Freddy was done and run his course. Jason was equally buried along with the franchise but as Jason did not have the iconic face and actor behind the role it could live on a bit longer with just another person in the role. No need to stop with this one, he’d been to Manhattan, been stabbed, drowned, electrocuted, buried, chained to the bottom of the lake, replaces, redone and probably anything else you could imagine. You will also not find any of those movies on this list as I didn’t enjoy them. They took elements of movies I love, the suspense, the what is going to happen who is where and what are they hiding. Friday the 13th doesn’t have that element in abundance it went for there is a killer about bang your dead. So are you, your next then you and went along the most inventive death route rather than story and mystery. The difference that Elm Street had was that Freddy scared the crap out of me when I was young enough to hold that thought in my head and even now knowing the movies inside and out they still have this hold over me. This is where this movie falls down, Freddy had become a film star of this movie. It was someone playing Freddy now and didn’t have the same terrifying hold that it used to. This could be because I am that much older. This movie just felt a caricature of the former greatness that once was. There were some scenes in this movie that had me shaking my head praying for the end and that is hard to say. I respect both franchises one because it scared me and the other was loved by many of my horror fan friends but I think I really wanted to enjoy this movie more than I did. It wasn’t what it could have been. Rather than saying lets make a great story with both of these characters come together they went with we are going to bring these two together to fight, so how why would they do that? I did warn earlier that I am going to tear strips off this movie and still leave the 77% at the top. Why because it did bring two icon’s together it is the only Jason movie I have an its not his best but it does mean I don’t have to by the 11 or 12 films there are in the Friday the 13th franchise so I got one and that will do. Is this film terrible no! is it what it could have been? Well that is a no as well. But it tried and that is just enough for me to give it a [slightly wonky] thumbs up.
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