Our ‘Freddy vs Jason’ Weekend Concludes with the Epic Match-Up Between the 2 Terrifying Titans!

What do you do when two aging franchises that are in need of some blood pumping adrenaline to reinvigorate them? You join forces of course!

It’s been nearly ten years since Freddy Krueger terrorized people in their dreams, and the towns folk want to keep him erased from their memory, but 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 Freddy becomes. This is until, Freddy realizes that Jason isn’t going to step aside easily, and must be taken down himself.

This film marks Robert Englund’s last official on-screen appearance as Freddy, though he would occasionally appear as the character at conventions and events. In 2014, Englund officially “retired” from the role, after appearing in full costume and make-up at an event marketed as his final portrayal of the character.

Chronologically, the film is set after the events of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), but before Jason X (2001), which was released beforehand, as this movie spent so long in development hell.

The opening of the film uses plenty of flashback footage from the previous “Nightmare” films but none from the “Friday the 13th” films. This is because New Line Cinema did not have the legal rights to use flashback footage from the previous films, the rights to which were still owned by Paramount Pictures