I had heard a lot of bad things about this movie, and therefore I rented this and placed it in my player with a fair amount of trepedition.

The movie tries to marry together two of the most well known horror villains in this modern age:

Freddy is from the Elm Street films and Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. Both are spychotic killers in a series of films (although in Friday the 13th Part 1 it’s his mother – but that’s being pedantic).

Originally both series were great, and then became so long and tiresome no one cared any more. The Elm Street movies became a parody of thier former self, as was the case with Friday the 13th.

Both series of films were about body counts and the most gruesome death scenes. Freddy lives in the dream world, Jason in the real world possessed by pure evil which is why he can exist. He can sleep,. but he can never die.

In any case, Freddy since his last movie has been forgotton in Elm Street and thus no longer exists. Fortunately he has enough power to control a mind, and devises a plan to awaken Jason to bring fear back to Elm Street – the fear is what powers Freddy.

So Jason goes about his business, and Freddy becomes stronger – until that is Jason keeps killing which means Freddy can’t be stronger as less and less people fear him, and more fear Jason. Thus the Vs monkier in the title and we witness a battle between Bad and, er, Bad.

The acting verges on extreme cheese at times which made me squirm more than the death scenes

The movie tries to keep fans of both movies happy, it provides the tits and girls and fucking that the Jason fans want – and also the violent and imaginative (sort of) death scene that Freddy inflicts.

Freddy lives in the dream world, Jason in the real world possessed by pure evil which is why he can exist

For what it tries to do is quiet ambitious, and for that it gets an A+ for effort. It doesn’t work all the way through the movie, but for the most part it works vwey well. We don’t get to see much of either of the bad guys until 2/3s into the movie.

I wasn’t shocked at any point, but I was very much entertained. The thing with both villains is that in their movies you knew the conclusion before you saw the movie – and you sort of know it here, but not quite. The movie is predicatable for the most part, although it did manage to spring a few suprises here and there.

Freddy vs Jason is entertaining, and a balanced amalgamation of two different sets of movies of the same genre. The acting verges on extreme cheese at times which made me squirm more than the death scenes. The almost almost final death scene., where freddy and jason embrace and stab and kill each other was almost hilarious in so much it was done in slow motion, making it seems like some romantic interlude better placed in a romantic comedy, er horror thing.

Overall though, I have to say, I actually enjoyed this movie – if this is a one off, then it’s good, because it should stay that way. A sequel would just be a money spinner, and probably not a good one.

Verdict: Cheap, brainless fun – sit back and let it run.