Freddy Vs. Jason--An Era That Just Won't End

Welcome back, folks...

As promised, Freddy Vs. Jason, Part two-

Thus, the drunken dorm room dream of every vaguely geeky college student since the eighties comes to pass:

Freddy. Versus. Jason.

And what a brawl it is. Jason lifts Freddy and runs him through a wall. Horizontally. Freddy slices through windows, siding, studs, and wallboard like a diamond carbide-tipped chainsaw running at two million RPM. This, of course, should have torn the flesh-and-bone Freddy to bloody hunks. But Freddy apparently has been doing Tae-Bo during his stay in Ronny Yu's inky black version of hell. (He probably had a lot of time on his hands when he wasn't ranting about how everyone had forgotten him). There's plenty of room in hell to practice all the kicks and such. He is fighting back against Jason with a style and sheer verve that would make Jackie Chan wince in jealousy.

Somehow, Freddy is now a master of martial arts with a genius-level IQ that allows him to make all sorts of fancy strategic plans, including using construction equipment to his best possible advantage.

But what Freddy had not counted on- and what every Jason fan knew was coming- is that Jason is just as strong in the REAL world, if not MORE so, as he was in Freddy's little nightmare country.

Jason takes a beating that's even more preposterous in the real world than in the dream world. He has heavy things dropped on him. Canisters of pressurized oxygen, when full weighing probably a couple hundred pounds, are launched at him. A stack of rebar is dropped on him from a height of three stories.
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This is the most impressive of all, folks. Rebar, for those of you who aren't commercial contractors or haven't had a basement built recently, is the collective term for long rods of iron or steel that are inserted into a concrete mold to lend it extra strength and resiliency. They're typically about nine feet long and are cylindrical in shape. So, basically Jason has a stack of solid metal blunted spears dropped onto him. Many actually penetrate Jason's limbs.

In traditional Jason style, this is only enough to slow him down. He removes them himself. Pulls them from his legs and continues on as if nothing had happened. The brawl continues for some time to a climax that I won't give away, with an additional surprise twist at the end.

The DVD features deleted scenes which aren't necessary to the plot, and an additional ending which has even more of the aforementioned plot twist.

Some really interesting stuff makes an appearance throughout the movie...have a look around and see if you can spot these:

Children and their fear equal power for a matched pair of demonsan earlier installment of "Nightmare on Elm Street" declares all fans of Freddy are "his children." Is this a surprise commentary from the directors on the nature of Hollywood's movements?

Goats appear occasionally with Freddyclassic Satanic harbingers. Is this a hint about the nature of Freddy or something more sinister behind him?

1428 is the first house number that appears in the film. 1+4+2+8 makes fifteen, or three fives. Numerologists acknowledge the number five as the number representing death.

Ten 'Missing Child' posters appear in a police lobby. One of the ten at the lower left corner is blank. Again as before, we have the appearance of two fives, or two deaths.

A girl appears, her eyes destroyed, and she makes a prophecy about upcoming events. Why would Greek mythological characters make appearances in a movie geared toward an audience who likely isn't versed enough in Greek myth to catch the reference?

Mass-scale child druggings take place, using a drug called Hypnocil (from the Greek hypnos) that prevent the kids from dreaming. Again, an appearance from the Greek. Or, is this a commentary on using drugs like Ritalin in schools? When you watch the film, note that the children are handed Hypnocil in secrecy, never revealing the purpose of the medication. What would be some ramifications if a school, or a town government, decided to do something similar to children today?

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