Whoever wins, we lose.

The Movie: Freddy vs. Jason, directed by Ronny Yu
Recommendation: D
Reason: She hadn't seen it before.

There are good movies, there are bad movies and then there are movies that are good for what they are. Freddy vs. Jason is a good Freddy movie, it's a good Jason movie, it's just not a particularily difficult or challenging movie overall. Is it ever pretty though. Gouts of blood, beautiful fire effects, the boiler room of everyone's nightmares...gives a person a chill, it really does. With Robert Englund reprising his role as Freddy yet again (and no one else could ever do it better) and a new, frighteningly huge Jason in place, the movie kicks off with an excellent summary of the pair's previous antics.

A lot of the movie is fairly straightforward. Teenagers do bad things emphatically, like smoking weed, drinking and having premarital sex. I do mean that, by the by, they jump into 'sin' with great gusto. Then Jason hacks them into tiny pieces. Some of them fall asleep, and Freddy does creative things with their heads. Eventually, rivalry over the victim-herd takes over and the apex predators collide in a reasonably spectacular showdown.

If you like Freddy or Jason, if you enjoy slashers and have a couple of hours free, this isn't a waste of time. The movie's entertaining and certainly fodder for discussion. There's a potential sequel in the works, which makes me very happy (especially since they talked about bringing in even more slashers-fingers crossed for Pinhead or Michael Myers!).

-167/365 down, 198/365 to go