Freddy Vs. Jason

Horror

Ken Kirzinger	Jason Voorhees
Robert Englund	Freddy Krueger
Kelly Rowland	Kia Waterson
Ritter, Jason
Jason Ritter	Will Rollins
Brendan Fletcher	Mark Davis
Monica Keena	Lori Campbell
Lochlyn Munro	Deputy Scott Stubbs
Tom Butler	Dr. Campbell
James Callahan	Tim
Christopher George	Linderman
Katharine Isabelle	Gibb
Kyle Labine	Bill Freeburg
Chris Marquette	Charlie Linderman

Director	Ronny Yu
Producer	Robert Shaye; Sean S. Cunningham
Writer	Wes Craven; Victor Miller

After 11 years in development hell and screenplay drafts by 13 different writers, the long-awaited smackdown of Freddy vs. Jason finally arrives. After making their respective debuts in Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger, replacing long-time Jason performer Kane Hodder) and razor-gloved Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) square off in a slasher-franchise combo-deal that only their most devoted fans will appreciate; turns out this is a lightweight match in which nobody wins. It's an average entry in the histories of these horror icons, comparable to half of their previous sequels, and Bride of Chucky director Ronny Yu satisfies purists with plenty of gushing blood and mayhem when Freddy recruits Jason to slice 'n' dice the ill-fated teens who've forgotten Freddy's once-formidable reign of terror. While it logically connects the gruesome legacies of Nightmare's Elm Street and Friday's Camp Crystal Lake, this horror hybrid is shockingly uninspired. It briefly peaks when Freddy gives the unconscious Jason a dream-world pummeling, but their ultimate showdown's a draw. In the immortal words of Peggy Lee, is that all there is? --Jeff Shannon