The cinema discourse equivalent to the age-old taunt of “my dad could beat up your dad!” must be “my favorite horror movie icon could beat up your favorite horror movie icon!” It’s inevitable that such a competition would cross people’s minds.
How many times can you watch these masked killers slice and dice hordes of people before you start to wonder “who could take them down in a duel?” The tantalizing possibilities behind such a query fueled the creation of the 2003 movie Freddy vs.
Jason, which pitted horror icons Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger against one another.
It would seem like a movie pitting these two icons against each other would be such a recipe to print money that it would get greenlit right away.
But it took years and years for this production to finally carve its way to the big screen.
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