At least Jason X actually takes place in space. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child feels like almost everyone involved was high on some kind of drug that doesn't lend itself particularly well to telling a scary story.
Halloween: Resurrection erased any goodwill created by Halloween H It felt immediately dated with the shaky camera work popularized by The Blair Witch Project a few years prior. The worst part, however, was centering the entire story on the tired concept of having a group of people spend the night in a house where an act of evil had previously taken place.
The film suffered greatly from Robert Englund not being in the role of Freddy Krueger, as well as the failure to even try to get Craven involved on any level. And unlike the original where you instantly disliked some of the teens while rooting for others, there was no depth at all to the characters.
I am definitely a Rob Zombie fan and have always loved horror, but not necessarily a ton of gore. His films teeter in that direction quite often. The Friday the 13th reboot was totally disappointing. A Nightmare on Elm Street was such a great series, and the buzz was that this really was the last installment.
But boy did it go off the rails. There's no Michael Myers here, but there's more of a supernatural element. Friday the 13th Part 2. Jason takes over the spotlight in a story that picks up five years after the original.
It retains the feel of the original without coming off like a mere retread. The second movie was pretty much the original with a different title. The third film is way more inventive. The idea of having distinctively unique teens in a psych ward like some kind of tormented version of The Breakfast Club , plus the use of hypnosis as a means for them to control their dreams and fight Freddy, was very creative.
Plus, there were some of the most memorable deaths of the series, including one where Krueger replaces his customary glove of blades for fingers of syringes. The former offers the perfect balance of gore and comedy while extracting an engaging and entertaining performance out of Corey Feldman.
Still, the result is an entertaining slasher flick, signaling that the series would continue to flourish into the 21st century. Can we give it up for a sequel that completely ignores the things that made the original great and instead revolves around a mask-factory caper? Friday the 13th Part II. I love the humor that infuses some of the later installments, but I'm a sucker for filmmaking, so I'm going with the one that not only features a nicely constructed narrative but pays cheeky homage to horror classics like The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Mario Bava's gonzo Bay of Blood.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Everyone loves the pseudo-action movie vibes of Dream Warriors , and the gay subtext of Freddy's Revenge was fantastically subversive for its time, but I'm going with the film that revolves around the idea that Freddy is now stalking the real-world actors and filmmaker who brought him to life, because it's just so much fun.
Christopher: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors put things squarely back on track, with the return of Craven and Heather Langenkamp, the final girl in the original film. There was no subtext, just a cadre of kids being pursued by Freddy Krueger while they were trapped in an insane asylum, and Englund takes Freddy to another level by turning him into the wisecracking killer audiences have come to love.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the climax of the battle between Jason and Tommy Jarvis, and the film is the perfect balance of camp, faithfulness to the myth and memorable characters who have their own narrative. The Halloween was fashioned as a direct sequel to the original. Jamie Lee Curtis finally looks comfortable again in the role of Laurie Strode for the first time in nearly four decades, playing a troubled but tough-as-nails protagonist who is perpetually ready for the threat of Michael Myers, despite all conventional logic suggesting otherwise.
Even before Scream , the whole poking-fun-at-the-series idea started with this film. If considering his already formidable stature, high pain tolerance, weapon skills, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, he's certainly more than a fair match. Jason is single-minded and near unstoppable.
People have tried to kill Jason in a multitude of ways, and even as a human, he was able to survive things like being hung, stabbed in multiple ways, and taking an axe to the skull. Also, he's relatively invulnerable to complete bodily destruction since his demonic heart can hypnotize people, leaving them vulnerable enough for him to possess them and be reborn.
If his heart was targeted in some way and destroyed, that would likely be a real end of him. Also, if he was incapacitated in a way that he couldn't regenerate being cryogenically frozen, for example, as seen in Jason X , that would mean sure defeat if killing him outright wasn't an option.
Freddy Krueger's stat card isn't as extensive, range-wise, but his powers are more than impressive. Though Freddy has been killed - he was burned alive by the angered parents of all the Springwood children he murdered - he isn't considered to be undead.
Instead, Freddy is a dream demon who lives in the dream world where he is nigh invincible. His imagination and passion for unique kills is showcased in the alternate reality, plus he can shape-shift into numerous different objects or whatever he chooses in order to be menacing.
Where Jason is brawn, Freddy is most certainly brains and his unlimited imagination and brilliant, psychopathic mind may very well be an edge he needs in the fight. He isn't hardy or sturdy in build, but he has a speed and dexterity on his side, as well as an advantage whenever he's inside the dream world as he can influence anything in their surroundings, including his victims.
Freddy feeds on fear, and, in doing so, can weaponize someone's fear. He is certainly immortal, though it has been proven time and again that he's very vulnerable outside of the dream state. This has been exploited by potential victims who maintain control inside their dreams, gaining the ability to pull Freddy out of the dream state. Which movie monster is more badass? Jason," and it wasn't super clear who won the brawl.
Who do you think would win in a rematch? Well, keep reading and we'll recap what makes these icons so great. Freddy Krueger was created by horror master Wes Craven, who based Freddy's aesthetic off of a creepy man who peaked through his window as a child.
Craven also drew inspiration from studies of people who died in their sleep. So Freddy's creation is even rooted in creepy, real-life situations. Freddy was a child murderer who was burned by a mob of angry townsfolk in the fictional town of Springwood, Ohio. But Freddy Krueger would later get revenge on the families who live on Elm Street. He returned as a demonic spirit, hellbent on killing off the mob's teenaged offspring one-by-one in their nightmares.
Dying in your sleep meant dying in the real world, which makes Freddy even more terrifying than some psycho chasing you around with a meat cleaver. Freddy has used his astral projection abilities to kill off teenagers in their nightmares in some pretty creative ways, typically preying on their deepest, darkest fears. It was Robert Englund's performances as Freddy Krueger that popularized the character in the '80s, making him one of the most legendary monsters in pop culture.
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