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What about Jason? The real strength of the movie is its stellar cast.

It was a divisive move; movie by movie Freddy was sanitised and given more and more zingers as was common in contemporaneous mainstream movies. was the genre audience itself – how to cater to, and appease, too equally passionate fanbases. Drastische Horrorfilme Der Slasherfilm wird mit dieser Mischung aus dem alptraumartigen Freddy Krueger, der gegen den Serienkiller Jason Voorhees im ultimativen Kampf antritt, wiederbelebt. Freddy vs. Jason (2003). Your email address will not be published. It is the last film in each series before their respective reboots. Love interest is played in square jawed fashion by Jason Ritter, and amiable support appears in the form of the ever-dependable Lochlyn Munro. Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenage population.

The balance was best struck in 1987’s , arguably the Elm Street movie where Krueger manages to be both humorous and threatening in equally effective measure. Instead of opening credits, we see a screen full of flesh that is quickly slashed into pieces, which fly back and form the words "New Line Cinema Presents". (at around 19 mins) In the second dream sequence, the goat bleats twice, but its mouth doesn't move. Removed as we are now to such an extent, it’s time for another look at the slasher team up – is The first official moves to a crossover between the franchises was all the way back in 1987, some sixteen years before finally materialised. Renowned in Hong Kong as primarily a director of wuxia movies, and with only 1998’s as a genre credit, concerned eyebrows were raised by fans around the world.

There was great friction between Isabelle and Yu for the rest of the shoot, because of this incident. In Yu’s hands, it becomes something else; a brutal, violent, extended battle that veers from one side to the other throughout.

It did however reignite interest in at studio level; it finally went into full production shortly thereafter. Victor Miller (characters), 37 Min. More importantly for fans clamouring to see the slasher genre’s brightest stars go toe to toe was a final scene in which Freddy’s gloved hand pulls Jason’s iconic hockey mask into the ground; Cunningham’s signal to fans that may well be coming to screens sooner rather than later. On its fifteenth birthday it is time to give it another go; give yourself the chance to see it for what it is – a bloody fun slasher mash-up that is so much better than it had any right to be. $36,400,000


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How could the showdown between the two possibly be satisfying to everyone?

In response to persistent requests from genre fans, and after finally re-acquiring the rights to the franchise following the less than stellar , series originator Sean S Cunningham began to actively develop the concept with New Line.


Given the key conceit of New Line’s horror team up was the titular battle, someone with quality action movie chops made perfect sense.