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Staring: Ken Kirzinger, Robert Englund, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
EAN: 9780780646001
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780646002
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-01-13
Running Time: 97
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-08-15

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It's the battle everyone's been DYING to see! Teenagers find themselves caught in the middle of a battle between two legendary boogeymen: Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. Who will win in the bloodiest and goriest showdown in history?

DVD Features:
3D Animated Menus
Alternate endings:Alternate opening and Ending
Audio Commentary:Commentary with Director Ronny Yu, Actors Robert Englund (FREDDY) & Ken Kirzinger (JASON)
Comparison Scenes
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes:18 Deleted Scenes with optional commentary from Director Ronnie Yu and Executive Producer Douglas Curtis
Documentaries:--Behind the scenes coverage of the films development - including screenwriting, set design, make up, stunts and principle photography --Visual effects exploration
Featurette
Full Screen Version:Both fullscreen and Widescreen on one disc
Interviews
Music Video:Ill Nino "How Can I Live"
Storyboards
TV Spot:Lots of TV spots
Theatrical Trailer

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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

Customer Reviews

Don't sleep; otherwise the horror will appear in your dreams!, 2010-08-12

Freddy vs. Jason is one of these movies to be watched with friends a Saturday rainy evening. The bloody sequences along the film achieve the highest peak in the final confrontation between these abominable creatures.

Forget about the script. It makes no sense to talk about it. The main ingredient in the most of cases, is to maintain the spectator tied to his chair, providing us of abundant doses of scare and adrenaline with the accustomed satisfaction of having watched the gore in its highest level.

Robert Englund is the star of the show. Brilliant and effective as the feared Freddy Krueger.

My favorite film from Freddy OR Jason!, 2010-06-04
After many, many years of slashing teens, supernatural killers Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees are both in Hell, but Freddy has a plan to get back to work. He attempts to use Jason to bring the fear of Freddy back to Elm Street, and after a while, it starts to work, but Jason just proves to be too difficult to control. Freddy quickly gets sick of Jason stealing his best kills and becomes intent on taking him out of the picture now that he's no longer needed. However, Freddy's latest nemesis, teen beauty Lori, is working together with her friends to try and use Jason to finish Freddy off once again. It ends in a fantastic and brutal fight to the finish at Crystal Lake that is the stuff horror fans' dreams are made of!

"Freddy vs. Jason" is, in my opinion, the most entertaining film from either franchise to date. It stays true to the characters' pasts and manages to come up with a very clever way to bring the pair together, and even the ending is very well done. The teens in the film are a good mix of the partiers Jason usually takes out and the more relationship focused ones Freddy often encounters. And, of course, at the focus is a female survivor, this time named Lori and played by the always gorgeous Monica Keena. I'll admit that I've always had a thing for Monica, but that is not the main reason I love this film. In fact, I really prefer her in earlier films, when she had a much more natural looking beauty, like in "Snow White: A Tale of Terror", which I highly recommend. Nor is the main reason I love this film the fact that it also has the lovely Katharine Isabelle from the "Ginger Snaps" film series. No, the main reason I love this is its clever way the characters are brought together and interact. Everything in the film is well-balanced, making it a near perfect "vs." film. Granted, you have a few of the teen characters that aren't as well played and/or a bit annoying, but no big deal since they are probably going to get slaughtered anyway, ha. Robert Englund is back in perfect form as Freddy, and while many fans were outraged that Kane Hodder was not used to play Jason, Ken Kirzinger does a fine job in the role and makes quite the imposing figure. If you're a fan of the franchises, you'll love the throwbacks to the characters' pasts and all the brilliant ways they tie things together here without going over the top. The fire vs. water concept really adds an interesting, poetic aspect to it all. The writers and director Ronny Yu really should be commended for doing a wonderful job with finally making this film a reality, as well as New Line for not making it until they had something really, REALLY good. They had so many scripts before this one that would have been a REAL Nightmare onscreen...

New Line serves up a great 2-disc DVD set for this excellent film, complete with an enjoyable commentary by the stars who play Jason and Freddy along with their director. Robert Englund definitely takes command of this recording session, but he's a pleasure to listen to and it's a really fun commentary, which, if you've listened to as many as I have, you know isn't always the case. If you're all about the kill scenes, Disc one also has a jump to a death feature, and you can opt to watch the film in either widescreen or fullscreen. Disc 2 is where the bulk of the bonus features are, including a nice bunch of deleted and alternate scenes that can be watched with or without commentary (there's also a little Easter Egg on that menu). Disc 2 also has some nice galleries, theatrical trailer and TV spots, a music video, featurettes on Visual Effects and Behind the Scenes stuff, and probably its best item (besides the deleted scenes), a 2 part look at a Fangoria article that describes the various script ideas that came before what we finally saw on the screen. Don't let the page numbers deter you. Read this all through. It goes quite fast, and it will help you appreciate the final film all the more. There were some really lame ideas they could have gone with, but thankfully, they didn't. Also on disc two is a humorous pre-fight press conference and a look at the neat premiere event set up by the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Austin (my favorite theater; I'm practically going to live there when I move to Austin next month, assuming I find a job to pay for movie tickets) in which film goers took part in an all-day summer camp event that culminated in an outdoor viewing of the film. With innertubing, dodgeball, craftmaking, and a wet t-shirt contest, it looked like a real hoot! Sad that I missed it!

The New Line Platinum Series 2-disc DVD release of "Freddy vs. Jason" is fantastic. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the film, either franchise, or even just like the characters and the idea of seeing them pitted against each other. But, frankly, this is a good buy even if you just like cute girls,... but I seriously think Freddy and Jason are at their best here, and it's just such an excellent example of how to do a "vs." film or even a sequel right.

This was literally a fantasy movie come true., 2010-06-02
In 2003, I never recalled anticipating a movie with more excitement then this one. I remember posting on so many message boards, discussing this film before it came out and then going to an all day and all night summer camp event called Camp HackNSlash out in the woods to see this movie on a giant screen.

As a kid, I was terrified of Freddy and Jason, and there was always discussions on the playground among the boys at Sims Elementary as to who could beat who in a fight. When I got older discovered the Internet, I learned that this topic did not just belong to the young boys I grew up with at school in this little small Texas town. It was infact a discussion that children, teenagers and adults from all over the world talked about.

This movie was made because for so many years the fans talked about it and requested it and this big question over who was tougher became so huge that Hollywood knew this would be a money maker and it was and it was the number one film in the box office in the United States of America for two straight weeks.

Every time I watch this movie I am reminded of Camp HacknSlash and Salt Lick BBQ because that was the food that was served the evening that I went and saw this movie at Camp HackNSlash. It was also the very first official Freddy and Jason film I ever saw from start to finish. (I was too much of a chicken as a kid to ever watch the entire Freddy and Jason movies without switching the channel. lol.) It was also the first Freddy and Jason movie I ever saw on a big screen and since I went and watched the movie again in theaters back in 2003, it was the first time I ever saw one of their movies in the theater. So that is some of the reasons why it's a favorite for me. This was also the final movie that the orginial and REAL Freddy and Jason appear in, so it's a very bittersweet kind of film and I think it was great seeing two icons end their careers in a movie people have been wanting to see for a long time.

Thank you Freddy and Jason!

great horror movie!, 2010-08-19
Seeing Freddy and Jason in one movie is like a dream come true. You get to see both of them have a little fun before the awesome ending fight scene. If you're a Freddy or Jason fan (or both), GET THIS MOVIE!

The Original Is always The Best Nevermind Remakes., 2010-05-26
Freddy Vs. Jason? Why ruin two good franchises?? because Hollywood says SO! To me part 1-5,(with 1 of course being the very best),2 being good,and 5 downright silly.represents the height of the freddy franchise. Wes Craven's New Nightmare was also good, If your like me who grew up on this franchise watching On WBFS-33, or wdzl-39(the most) then NO REMAKE w/o Englund will due.

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