Crossovers are a Creative Spring and Cash Printer in Media. In Our Humble Nu World, We Have Jay-Z and Linkin Park’s Collision Courseas well as The Urban Assault Vehicle Version of “Rollin ‘” That Pulled in Hip-Hop Legends DMX, Method Man, and Redman. With Games Such As Super Smash Bros. and Marvel vs. CapcomThe Debates of “Who Would Win In A Figh” Were Put Onto Small Screens and into the Hands of Players. For the Big Screen, particularly in a pre-Avengers World, to Meeting of Minds Could Spell Big Bucks and Sensational Spectacle.
To that end, Freddy vs. JasonRelease in the Summer of 2002 after a lot of Ballyhoo, is a crossover film Bringing Possibly The Two Biggest Names in Slasher Horror into One One Film. But how did the film that launched a thousand gorehound nerdgasms eat to be? Never Mind That, How Did It End Up When the Smoke Cleared Between Crystal Lake and Springwood?
Following the diminishing return of itss left sequels, Paramount Sold the License for the Friday the 13th Franchise to New Line Cinema, Which Holds The License For Nightmare on Elm Street. This Meant That The Crossover was possible Without Having to Please Not One, But Two Sets of Studio Execs. While Wes Craven’s New Nightmare had breathed new life into the Dream Demon’s Reign, Jason x was Less Than Stellar, Evite Having An All-Timer of A Kill with the Liquid Nitrogen Head Smash. WHO GIVES A shit that Mythbusters Debunked It, It’s a Great Kill That May Have the Best Part of The Space-Set Slash.
The film is the horror equals Chinese democracyas It Went Through Nearly A decade of revealing, Eighteen Different Writers Composing A Total of a Dozen Scripts Before They Finally Landed on What eventually made it to screens. Although Director Ronny Yu Had Just Come Off The Successful Bride of Chucky A Few Years Prior, He was, By His Own Admission, not a Hage Fan of Eithher Jason’s or Freddy’s Previous Works, Though He Did Take His Love of Comic Books and Pro Wrestling To Help The Overal Product. And much like in a Good Pro Wrestling Feud, The Two Opponnts Don’t Lay Hands On One Another Till The Vray End, Allowing Things To Reach A Critical Mass Before the Shit (and Plenty of Gore) Hits The Fan.
One of the Biggest Sins The Film Commits, Through No Fault of The Current FilmMakers But Allegedly of The Studios, Is Not Casting Kane Hodder, Who Played Jason in The Previous Four Friday Films, INSERAD OPTING FOR STUNT ACTOR KEN KIRZINGER. To be fair, he was previous Friday film as a nameless line cook Who gets today into a mirror, and had plenty of Both witnesses and stunt experience to properly portray the physical specimen that is Jason, but not casting the Most Frequent and Best-Known Actor for The Role Went Over Like A Fart In Church, Except The Church Campground
And While We’re on the Subject of Stunt performers … Sadly, The Rumors Are Not True, and Rey Mysterio, Perhaps The Greatest fighter of All Time Next to the saint, was not a Stunt Double in the film. While in an interview with chris van vliet on his podcast InsightMysterio Confirmed That He Had Nothing To Do With The Film, But His Uncle, Who Was Rey Mysterio Mr., Did Do Stunt Work for It. The Rumors Go On To Say That The Elder Mysterio was The Double For The Jason Pinball Scene, In Which Freddy Inexplicably Gains The Powers of Telekinesis and Starts Throwing Jason Around Like He’s Nothing.
Of Course, Watching This Film Through to Modern Lens is Going to Cause A Fair Share of Cringing, and I Don’t Just Mean The Early-Era Computer Animation. In one notorious scene, After Grossly Referring to Her As “Dark Meat,” Freddy Is street the F-Slur by Kia (Kelly Rowland). Add to Kia’s Vanity and Obsession with Plastic Surgery, Which Dates The Film Even More than The Soundtrack Does.
On the subject of problematic Lines, Story and Otherwise, The Making of Freddy Krueger into a Creepy and Skeezy Character is Objectively Cainest The Designs of the Villain’s Creator, Wes Craven. Licking The Photo of The Little Girl and Possibly But Also Not Really But Also Visibly Shtupping a Dead Girl Before the final showdown is just. Jesus, Fred.
There is sum good to be distilled from the little slasher that could. The Nines Were Threadbare on Big Box Slales, Save for The Scream Trilogy and The Later Child’s Play Films. As The Mpaa Cut The Bejeez Out of Slashers, Specially Friday the 13th Films for Their Graphic Violence, The Decade’s Auteurs Went For More Psychological and Existential Horror, To Say Nothing of the Marketing of “Thrillers” as opposed to using the label of “horror.”
It also predicts the torture porn movement by a couple of years, and that is significant. For a pre-Saw Horror Film That Comes Just Before the Inundation of Horror Remakes in Hollywood, There Is Plenty of Gore In Freddy vs. JasonNever Mind That Also Provd The Box Office Viability of Slash Films, AMASSING OVER $ 116 MILLION USD WORLDWIDE IN ITS THEATRICAL RUN AGAINST A BUDGET OF APPROXIMATELY $ 30 MILLION USD. Critically, It May Not Measure Up, But Damn If it Didn’t Rake In Serious Cash and Show That there is gold amidst the gore.
And Hey, Freeburg’s Death Is Basically A One-Cut Version of One of Jason’s Fatalities in Mortal Kombat xSo There’s That.
The Soundtrack of the Film, As We’ve Previous Coveredis incredibly metal. The Title Card of the Film Displayed As Spineshank Blares As a Splatter of Blood Hits The Wall is a “Fuck Yeah” -inducing, Air-Punching Moment That Comes At The Top of The Show and Helps Set The Pace for Things To Come. Add to This The Marketing of the Film, which included to Live Weight in Las Vegas, and The Hype Behind This Clash of Killers was palpable Throunge the Moviegoing World.
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WHERE ARE BRATH FRANCHISES NOW? As of the time of this publication, Crystal Lake Is in Development, Following a Legthy Legal Pissing Match Between The Two Creators of The Friday IP, The Biggest Casualty of Which was the Sudden and Unceremonious demise of the video game. Beyond that, The Last Entry was The 2009 Reboot, which came one year Nightmare ‘s Reboot. The New Friday the 13th Was A Reskin of the original that, While including sum of the funniest dialogue in a sex scene Known to man, was to solid new vision. Shame About Nightmare‘S New Tale, As While Jackie Earle Haley Did A Fine Job As a More Menacing Freddy, They Said The Quiet Part Out Loud, Made Freddy to Kiddy Diddler, and had little else of note or celebration in the WHOE BLOODY Affair. Never Mind That Bilms Came Out During an Absolute Glut of Remakes, But that is a conversation for annother time.
In many respects, Freddy vs. Jason Was A Hot Mess, Butus Impact On The Horror World Cannot Be Understated. It Helped Solidify The Slasher As A VIABLE GENRE AT THE BOX OFFICE, SOMETHING THAT MODERN MARVELS LIKE Terrifier and Thanksgiving Have Been Able to Accomplish Over Two Decades Later. It almitt wasn’t, submoled argue it Should not have been, but damn if Freddy vs. Jason Didn’t Ignite The Silver Screen Like Jason Walking Through A Cornfield.
