Taglines: Nightmare on Elmstreet meets Friday the 13th.
It’s been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger terrorized people in the dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory. Freddy still has one more plan on getting back to Elm Street. He resurrects Jason Voorhees and sends him off to kill. The more bodies which fall to the ground, the stronger in which Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realizes that Jason isn’t going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself.
Freddy vs. Jason (previously known as A Nightmare on Friday the 13th) is an American slasher action fantasy film directed by Ronny Yu. The film is a crossover between the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. It is the eleventh and eighth entries in their respective series, pitting Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees against each other. The film is also the last film in both the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises before they were both rebooted.
Freddy Krueger is trapped in Hell, because the teenage residents of Springwood have forgotten about him, rendering him powerless. Under the guise of Jason Voorhees’ mother, Freddy manipulates Jason into killing Springwood teenagers, hoping to inspire fear and restore his powers.
Lori Campbell now lives with her widowed father at 1428 Elm Street. Her friends Kia, Gibb, Trey, and Blake, are spending the night there. Jason kills Trey by stabbing him and folding him in half. The murder’s gruesomeness and the fact it happened in bed cause police to speculate Freddy was responsible. Later, following a nightmare, Blake awakens to discover his beheaded father beside him before Jason appears and kills Blake. The next day, the police say Blake committed the murders then committed suicide.
Lori’s ex-boyfriend Will Rollins and his friend Mark Davis, the last people to have had contact with Freddy, are patients at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital, forced to take Hypnocil to suppress their dreams. A news report of the murders prompts Mark to devise a successful escape plan. He and Will return to Springwood, where Mark informs Lori and the others about Freddy. Mark later learns of the city’s plan to erase Freddy by making the population forget about him and realizes he may have ruined their plan.
Directed by: Ronny Yu
Starring: Ken Kirzinger, Robert Englund, Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Jason Ritter, Chris Marquette, Lochlyn Munro
Screenplay by: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Production Design by: John Willett
Cinematography by: Fred Murphy
Film Editing by: Mark Stevens
Costume Design by: Gregory Mah
Set Decoration by: Rose Marie McSherry
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong horror violence/gore, gruesome images, sexuality, drug use and language.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: August 15, 2003
