Freddy Vs Jason Review
Director: Ronny Yu
Genre: Horror
Codestar30 Rating: 7.5/10
Its been nearly a decade since Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund) last invaded the nightmares of the children of 'Elm Street', and since then it seems everyone's done their best to forget about him, and those that haven't have been locked up. If no-one remembers him, then no-one fears him, and if no-one fears him he can't come back from hell in their dreams. Freddy needs to re-kindle the fear, so he resurrects Jason Voorhees (Ken Kerzinger) and sends him to elm street. Once Jason has hacked a few of the residents up, the rest of them are starting to remember the last person to kill around there; Freddy! So now Freddy is back in their Nightmares. However, he still has one problem. Jason is not willing to step aside and allow Freddy to kill 'Elm Street's' terrified teenagers, he wants them for himself. So its a fight to the death between them. Winner kills all.
First of all for anyone who loves graphic violence and gore, this is definitely a film you should see. There is a lot a teenagers getting hacked up over the whole course of the film, and once Freddy and Jason start fighting each other, they both seem to have an endless supply of blood to be spilled by the other. They are both seemingly indestructible as they hack, stab, slice, rip, crush, drown, burn, slash, smash, bash, crash, trash and generally destroy each other. As far as slashers go, this is my favourite so far. That isn't to say its the best of all time, just out of the ones I have seen. The violence is frequent, graphic, and gory.
The atmosphere throughout is incredibly tense. The characters are constantly terrified out of their wits. During their sleep they are attacked by Kruger, and in their waking hours, by Voorhees. They are never safe and a gory death seen is never far.
There's actually a bit of characters development for Jason. In a dream sequence we see flash backs to his traumatic death, and as Freddy strips away his terrifying exterior in order to attack the scared little boy at heart, Jason's fears, anxieties, insecurities and traumatic memories are revealed to us. I don't know about the original Friday the 13th, which I unfortunately have not seen, but in the re-make I have seen there was no where near as much insight into Jason's past.
If your looking for scares, this isn't the horror movie for you. If your looking for violence and blood, then grab a copy of this film, sit back, relax, watch and enjoy.
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