Starring: Robert Englund & Ken Kirzinger

The two biggest baddies from 80s horror clash in a battle for the ages.
This film was a long time coming, and I'm glad it finally got made.  The
meeting of the classic characters from the Nightmare on Elm Street and
Friday the 13th series takes place in the 18th film starring either of them.
The town of Springwood has protected their children from Freddy Krueger by
not mentioning him and by giving them a drug which suppresses dreams.
Freddy wants to kill again, so he tricks Jason Voorhees (who was just
"sleeping", not dead, you see) into coming back to life and killing again.
That way the kids will be afraid again, and that fear will strengthen
Freddy.  So Jason is back on the loose, hacking away at alcohol-drinking
underage-sex-having teens.  And Freddy's name gets out there again.  Just as
Freddy starts getting powerful, Jason is stealing away his victims.  Krueger
decides to put a stop to this killing machine, and we have an all-out brawl
between the silent stalker from Crystal Lake and the gabby killer from your
dreams.

This movie delivers what horror fans have wanted for a long time.  The
battle between these two is great.  It's long, gory, and the tide swings
back and forth, so we can see each of them in their glory.  Not only does
this movie have their violent battle, but there's plenty of the normal
killing we've come to know and love from their own series.  Some really
memorable kills - my fave is Jason on fire walking through the cornfield and
throwing his machete through the throat of a high teenager... and the
machete still burns!   There's decapitations, dismemberments, slices &
dices, plenty of severed arteries and buckets of blood.  And even a few
titties.  What else can an 80s horror fan ask for?   Of course, the plot was
weak, and some of the acting too, but what would you expect?   This is a
must see for any fan of either Nightmare or Friday series - you won't be
disappointed.
 
 

Quality: 4.0  Visuals: 6.0  Intensity: 7.0  Gore: 8.0  
OVERALL RATING: 6.3