Freddy Vs Jason
Reviewed By : AVL

Release Year : 2003

Directed By : Ronny Yu

Written By : Wes Craven, Victor Miller

Starring : Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena

Related Links : IMDB, Official Site

 

Roll up, Roll up! Gather round ladies and gentleman, take your seats for the fight of the century. In one corner we've the butcher of Elm Street, Freddy "Razorpaw" Krueger, in the other the the terror of Camp Crystal Lake, Jason "Slow and Silent" Vorhees!

All that we're missing is Michael Myers and it would have been the face off of all the horror icons of the 80s, but I guess that Mikey boy was holding out for a better offer before getting bored and prostituting himself out to Rob Zombie and remake land. Ah well, we can't have everything I guess, 2 out of 3 will have to do, they can just duke it out mano et mano without risking Myers and kooky old Loomis baffling them with psychobabble.

And, duke it out they do - there might be some kids trying to stay alive caught up in the middle of it, and their little struggle might make up most of the storyline, but make no mistake about it, the movie is solely an excuse to get these two legendary horror icons together on screen and have them knock the shit out of eachother. Is that a bad thing? Nah, course it isn't, it's great fun watching them try and fuck eachother over.

It looks good, and despite being a no brainer effort with nothing but the flimsiest of storylines, it's a hugely enjoyable rampage of killer versus killer battle. There are some great scenes to keep the attention and produce the occasional wow, or laugh, or both, and it does exactly what a movie should - it entertains.

Great fun and, when we were youngsters, didn't we all always ask questions like that - who'd win out of Superman and Mighty Mouse, Batman and the Fantastic Four, Jason and Freddy? Now you can find out at least one answer while you chug some good beer and kick back in front of the TV screen. Can't be bad, can it?.