6. Freddy vs. Jason
The ninth installment in the franchise, Jason Goes To Hell, was pretty disappointing, but one moment made it worthwhile. In the final scene, we see Jason’s hockey mask being dragged away by Freddy Krueger’s glove, teasing a mashup movie with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Taking the two biggest slasher franchises of the decade and putting them together was an awesome idea, but we had to wait a full 10 years before the movie actually hit theaters. Luckily, it mostly lived up to the hype and it's a whole lot of fun.
The plot is actually kind of complicated for a movie like this, but basically, Freddy Krueger has been forgotten about and kids no longer are afraid of him, so he manipulates Jason into killing a bunch of teenagers for him in hopes of inspiring fear in them once again. Wouldn’t they be afraid of Jason though, not Freddy? Is it just general fear that would allow Freddy to come back, not fear of him specifically?
Anyway, it doesn't matter too much because it’s really just an excuse to get the two characters together. Freddy ends up getting pissed off that Jason is taking all his good kills and so the fight that we spend a decade waiting for begins. I kind of expected the movie to involve Freddy and Jason both individually killing people before they eventually fight towards the end, or maybe they fight towards the middle before eventually teaming up, but actually, they fight multiple times throughout the movie. Sometimes the fight takes place in the dream world and sometimes it’s in the real world, and so in that way, the movie has a good amount of variety to it.
Of course, there's no actual winner in an attempt to not anger either set of fans. In the last fight, it appears that Jason wins, but then Freddy is revealed to still be alive in the very closing seconds, winking at the camera. It's kind of lame to watch them fight so much only for nobody to actually win, but at the same time, the winner wasn't really what it was all about.
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