


The film marks Robert Englund's final cinematic appearance as Freddy Krueger. The film received mixed reviews from critics but grossed over $116 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film in each series. Jason was released in the United States on August 15, 2003. The crossover film is chronologically set after Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), and is the last film in each franchise before their respective reboots.įreddy vs. Jason turns out to not be as easily controlled as Freddy initially thought, and the two supernatural mass murderers come into conflict. Freddy awakens Jason to stir up fear and grow his powers so that he may return and kill again. Freddy is weakened and forgotten because the citizens of his home town Springwood have defeated him using medications that repress dreams. The film joins the two series in a shared universe and pits their respective antagonists, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, against each other. It is a crossover between the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series, being the eighth installment in the former and the eleventh in the latter. Jason is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift.
