![]() ![]() Dreadful dialogue and performances scupper this cheap, chill-free claptrap that's still much too reliant on stale dreams-within-nightmares scenarios. ![]() But Jason isn't going to step aside that easily. To instil fear in the local teens again, Freddy coaxes Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) into causing machete mayhem, planning to take over the body count when his full strength returns. Because the Springwood folk have drugged potential Freddy (Robert Englund) victims with a dream suppressant, the razor-gloved bogeyman has been rendered impotent. Yu's half-hearted direction comes as the only real shock worth mentioning in this pointlessly gory and daft affair that plays ludicrous havoc with the myths of both horror icons. But director Ronny Yu fails to re-energise the Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises in the same way he saved the Child's Play series with Bride of Chucky, because the script and story here are so dire. First hinted at in Jason Goes to Hell: the Final Friday, a decade should have been plenty of time to get the clash of the terror titans right.
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