Mr Krueger and Mr Vorhees
June 16th, 2008
I’ve recently been talking about how much I used to love the old school Elm St and Camp Crystal Lake movies when I was in my teens. I suppose it shows how much we change and our tastes develop over the years because the idea of a Freddy versus Jason movie did not interest me at all.
I did have a similar experience though with comic, it wasn’t that I wasn’t in to them, they just weren’t registering in my life.
So the other night when I heard the familiar Elm St theme being played over the opening New Line logo I was more than pleased to be catching up with an old friend (a pointy fingered nasty friend granted). At first I expected it to be one of the later instalments but just couldn’t work out which one, I saw scenes from Freddy’s Dead (Elm St 6) and realised that it must be Freddy vs Jason. So that really got my attention which at the time was hard because on one channel Snatch was showing and on the other Bachelor Party was just starting (yes there was some flicking during the ad breaks).
After the movie finished I was struck by how good an instalment in either franchise that it was. Some careful thought went into the way they got these two horror icons together in the same movie. I was concerned it would be badly done but I was pleasantly surprised. The idea that Freddy needs Jason to help the kids of Elm St to remember him was clever (there’s obviously a little more to it than that).
I also liked that no matter which franchise that you’re a fan of both characters were looked after and had nods to their respective movie history.
With all the remakes going on I can’t imagine someone replacing Robert Englund in the role of Freddy, it just doesn’t feel right!!!
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Categories: Movies | Tags: bachelor party, camp crystal lake, elm st, freddy versus jason, freddy vs jason, horror films, krueger, vorhees
oh my!1 You just shush your mouth Lee! They can’t possiblty remake with a different Freddy!
*sticks fingers in ears and sings ‘La la la”*
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Bachelor Party is an absolute classic.
I don’t like horror films as a rule. I don’t enjoy the shocks where you jump.
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What can I say Bettina I hear rumours, I’m not happy about them, but then I have no idea who to call and express my displeasure.
I’ll just ignore it and hopefully it will go away…
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Dan - that’s why I don’t like a lot of the horror movies coming out right now, they seemed scientifically refined to maximum ’send Lee behind the couch’ settings.
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