FREDDY VS. JASON (2003)

The idea of a Freddy and Jason movie has always fascinated me since I was a kid.  I spent many hours as a youth thinking of various F13 / ANOES mix ups.  Including not only Freddy versus Jason but also Freddy and Jason...together.  No, not as lovers you fucking perv.  I'm talking about Freddy and Jason together hunting and killing people.  So...when the news that a Jason versus Freddy movie was in the works I was pretty excited, although the last few films of both franchises had given me reason to be leery.  And with good reason...

...cause this movie ended up being pretty weak.  The basic premise is Freddy (Robert Englund in his final appearance, to date, as Freddy) has been forgotten by the teenagers of Springwood and that has left him too weak to continue killing.  Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense, but whatever.  Anyway, so while Freddy might not have to power to go into a dream and stab someone he does have the power to summon Jason back from the dead and lead him to Springwood.  Somehow, Jason killing people will conjure up the memory of Freddy and then he can return.  But then when Jason starts stealing some of the teenagers that Freddy wants to kill he gets all butthurt and starts feudin' with Jason.  It's kinda silly.  You're telling me there's not enough teenagers around for both Freddy and Jason??

The fights between Jason and Freddy are nowhere as awesome as they should have been.  Also, Jason looks like shit.  He had a overcooked baked potato head in JASON GOES TO HELL and this time around his noggin looks more like a eggplant.  Badly shot topless scenes on girls that looked to be quite attractive.  I know for damn sure that Katharine Isabelle is hot as fook!  Meow!

Dated CGI, weak kills, goofy story, pinball noises while Freddy and Jason are fighting, a few interesting visuals (Freddy jumping out of the lake), mediocre acting.  Overall it's not a terrible film, just kinda meh.

Part 1 - Friday the 13th (1980)
Part 2 - Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Part 3 - Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Part 4 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Part 5 - Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Part 6 - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Part 7 - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Part 8 - Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Part 9 - The Final Friday: Jason Goes to Hell (1993)
Part 10 - Jason X (2001)
Remake - Friday the 13th (2009)

 Recognize that pretty face in the background?

TREMORS 4: THE LEGEND BEGINS (2004)

The storyline from Part 3 continued on into the TV series, so Part 4 instead tells about how the Graboids first showed up in Perfection Valley way back in ye olde 1889. Water from a hot spring hatches some old Graboid eggs that have been sitting there for Satan only knows how long.  The new baby Graboids kill 17 miners that are working nearby.  The mine is now effectively closed, so the owner, Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross), travels from Philadelphia to personally see what the hell is going on.  What he finds is a dying town.  Everybody has hightailed it and there's only a small handful of people left.  People that suspiciously look like they could be the distant relatives of the characters from Part 1.

City-slicker Gummer isn't accustomed to the frontier life, but he goes to investigate the silver mine anyway and finds it infested with Graboids! Barely making it back to town alive, he hires the help of a bounty hunter and even buys a wagon full of guns.  He quickly discovers that he really, really likes guns.

I like TREMORS 4. The budget is respectable, there's less CGI than in Part 3 and the awesome full-grown adult animatronic Graboids are back. I also liked the story and enjoyed seeing the origins of Perfection.  The transformation of Gummer from city boy to rough, gun-toting outdoorsman was silly, but funny.  If you like the TREMORS series then this film is a must watch.

Part 1 - Tremors (1990)
Part 2 - Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Part 3 - Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Part 5 - Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
Part 6 - Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)

Part 7 - Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)