The following morning, Jason is seen walking out of the lake carrying Freddy's severed (but still alive) head. The battle ends with both villains exhausted, but Jason uses one of Freddy's own severed limbs to seriously wound him, before collapsing into Crystal Lake. However, this leaves Freddy open to be beheaded by Lori, the film's final girl. Freddy's speed and inventiveness serve him well, allowing him to land a number of attacks on Jason, but Jason's nigh-unstoppable physical stature means he can more or less brush off every attack thrown at him. After being pulled into the material world, Freddy is forced to confront Jason head-on in a full-scale battle. The entire film is positioned as a duel between the slasher icons, building to the climactic third act. RELATED: Are These Really the Worst Films in Each Major Slasher Franchise? This forces a murder-hungry Freddy to turn against Jason, attempting to destroy his psyche. In an attempt to terrify the populace into remembering him (restoring his powers), Freddy is able to resurrect Jason Voorhees. Quickly, rumors spread of Jason's newest rampage, setting up Freddy to make his return, but even as Freddy gets the chance to target a new generation of teens, Jason's insatiable habit of killing people steals a number of kills from Freddy.

Jason reveals that the events of the original Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street franchises had been quietly existing in the same world. After being defeated and trapped in the afterlife, Freddy Krueger's memory is hidden from the next generation of people in Springwood. Jason pitted two of modern horror's most iconic killers against one another, but at the end of the day, was it Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees who really stood out as the more prolific - and terrifying - slasher villain?įreddy vs. 2003 even pitted two of them openly against each other. Even before the current trend of combining franchises and series spiraled into shared settings like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, horror had a habit of allowing its creatures and characters to confront each other. Among the modern horror classics, the icons of the slasher era still hold sway over large swaths of pop culture.

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