Today I’m going to fix the 2010…horror…movie… (seriously is it even horror if it isn’t scary?), Freddy Versus Jason. The movie that pitted two iconic horror villains against each other!
….in a terribly written way that made no sense if you think about the canon at all…
Anyway! The story starts out the same way; Freddy tricking Jason into waking up and going o a killing spree in Springwood to spread fear again so that he can resume his own killing spree, only to realise that Jason is an uncontrollable monster (y’think, Fred?!), leading him to draw him into the dream world again to fight.
This is where I diverge from the movie. Remove Jason’s fear of water. It has never made any sense. Jason HAS no fear. He is beyond it. He IS the fear. Freddy and Jason would continue fighting as our teen protagonists drive to Crystal Lake. HOWEVER, halfway there, Jason wakes up. Why? Because Freddy realises he can’t actually hurt the guy, and Jason can’t hurt him either. This forces the teens to split up and try to get away. The Final Girl ends up falling unconscious at some point during this chase, and Freddy gets into her dreams. Instead of killing her, though, he provides a vital clue to stopping Jason: the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, which thanks to Jason Goes to Hell AND the Freddy Versus Jason Versus Ash comics, is canon to this universe. He lets her wake up, and she goes to find the survivors of Jason’s latest rampage.
Their goal becomes a search for this book, and they find it in the now-ruined and abandoned Vorhees house from Jason Goes To Hell. In the minutes before Jason inevitably finds them, they look through it and realise that they can use its magic to trap Jason in Crystal Lake. One mad chase later (with at least one of them being caught and killed by Jason), and they’re back at the lake.
Final Girl ends up on the lake, luring Jason into the water, and uses the book’s power to trap him under the water. This means Freddy wins by proxy, right? Wrong. Final Girl also puts Jason into a permanent dream-state, and further uses the book to trap Freddy in Jason’s dreamscape.
Two evil birds, one stone. Jason can’t kill Freddy, Freddy can’t kill Jason. The climax of the movie is that same epic fight between the two on the shores of Cyrstal Lake, only for the dreamscape to rewind and the fight to begin anew.
Cut to black, credits roll, and the comics can still happen too.
There, I fixed a movie for you.
Posted by Justin J. 
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