FreddyvsJason



	Freddy vs. Jason Dir. Ronny Yu

	Guts �n� gore movies are a little respected genre in the movie pantheon. I like them, though. They�re fun. They�re monster movies with human-shaped monsters. They seldom have delusions of grandeur. They are out to shock you, to make you cringe. If you say �Eeewww� or �That was so gross� it�s high praise. They are not actually scary, but they do show you horror. The new king of monster movies is Freddy Vs. Jason, a showdown between two of the most beloved horror guys of all. Freddy is the main character in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. His hunting ground is the dreamscape, although he prefers the dreams of the residents of Elm Street in Springfield. Jason belongs to the Friday the Thirteenth shows. He slays anyone who�s stupid enough to visit Camp Crystal Lake. The movie has twice the gruesome slayings, twice the horror humor, and does indeed use both locations. On top of that, the writing is top-notch, the special effects are great, and some of the fight sequences are really, really cool. Let�s face it, if hack and slash movies didn�t tap into a dark part of movie watchers it wouldn�t be a lucrative type of movie. The next time that dark part of you wants a show, this should definitely be it. The show starts off with Freddy resurrecting Jason. Okay, nobody remembers Freddy in Springfield anymore, and Freddy gets his power from fear. No memory of him = no fear of him. Since he has visited hell a couple of times he decides to see if there�s anyone there who can help him. He finds the soul of Jason Voorhees and speaks to him through his dreams. Jason can�t be killed, so whenever he�s in the �dead place� he�s really just sleeping. At least, that�s what Freddy convinces him, and since Freddy can talk to him, it�s got to be a dream. Ta-daa! That�s horror movie logic for you. So Freddy (looking like Jason�s mother) tells him to get up, go to Elm Street, and wipe out anybody there who pisses him off. Since fornicators are people who Jason doesn�t like he first kills someone in a bed, and the adults of the town figure Freddy is back. So Freddy�s plan works perfectly. Word of Freddy starts re-circulating and people who never heard of Freddy start to be scared of him. Hurray for Freddy. However, Jason keeps killing people, in non-sleep situations, and is seen doing it. People figure �Hey, it�s not some dream guy who�s doing this, it�s the huge guy in the hockey mask. You know, the one with the machete.� Bad for Freddy. Now Freddy has got to stop Jason from killing the people, because that�s taking victims and power away from Freddy. That�s where the �Vs.� part of the title comes in. Really the humans are just screwed either way. I haven�t seen every Nightmare nor every Friday show. In fact, until now I had only seen the first N.O.E.S. and the one of the F.T.T. movies. I thought I would be confused. At first I was. There were some characters talking about some murders and �suicides� that had happened in Springfield, and I figured they were part of the movie history. I asked around and found out they weren�t covered in any movie: they just set up the characters in the current one. I guess they can�t make a whole movie every single time one of these guys goes on a killing spree. There would be dozens of them. Oh wait�there are dozens of them. ANYWAY, you don�t have to watch these in order; you don�t have to have seen many of either series. The moviemakers fill you in on what you need to know, and then they fill in any blanks with stories that no one has heard before. It�s considerate of them. I rate it: Full Price (but only if you�re in a hack-n-slash mood) Robert Englund as Freddy Ken Kirzinger as Jason Monica Keena as Lori Kelly Rowland as Kia Jason Ritter as Will

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