![]() ![]() ![]() Too bad that all of this genuine enthusiasm, anticipation, and fan goodwill is going to have to suffer what is arguably the worst genre disappointment in recent memory.įor those who don't know (though I can't imagine why anyone who didn't would be remotely interested in this movie), Jason Voorhees is the hockey-masked, unstoppable killer of Camp Crystal Lake, who's made a specialty of slaughtering horny co-eds to avenge his own drowning and the death of his mother Freddy Krueger, on the other hand, is a powerful dream demon, the vengeful ghost of a child murderer who escaped legal punishment on a technicality and was burned alive by a vigilante group of parents.Īlthough I have a certain affection for the Friday the 13th films (ten, count 'em, ten entries previous to this installment), the best of them (except the playful Jason X) were never as clever and inventive as even the worst of the Nightmare on Elm Street (seven previous entries) movies. Jason has been almost as enticing the long-rumored and long-in-development Aliens Vs. For many horror movie fans, the prospect of Freddy Vs. ![]() So here we are, with the long-awaited smackdown between movie maniacs Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, delivering the merger of the two franchises suggested in the final shot of 1993's otherwise lame Jason Goes to Hell.
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