Scary, gory, nightmare-inducing slasher.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Director Ronny Yu loses energy when it shifts to the dumb teen protagonists, and the script faithfully wallows in cliches so ridiculous they border on Scary Movie territory.

| Apr 5, 2010

It's pretty obvious where director Ronnie Yu's sympathies lie. Still, he can't find a satisfactory resolution to that old teaser about an implacable force vs the immovable object: how to kill off your cash cow and milk her too.

| Jan 26, 2006

It may not be an all-time classic, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp blade/finger.

| Oct 24, 2003

It's completely daft, and the one-liners are by now just plain cheesy, but there's a good deal of gore to keep the faithful amused, if not completely happy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2003

It's bloody, it's loud, it's gratuitous, and it's ridiculous. Sweet.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 22, 2003

Though a stickler might ask what's at stake in a fight to the death between two guys who are already dead, the hard-core fans aren't likely to be disappointed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2003

New Line's smartest move was letting Ronny Yu direct.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2003

Only masochists need contemplate laying down good money on this atrocity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 18, 2003

Horror connoisseurs should consider this one a draw.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 17, 2003

Anyone going to see this movie isn't going to care an iota about the acting or intelligence of the characters, and they really aren't going to give a flying twat if the art of cinema is raised to any level outside of the bar lofting above the local sewer.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2003

A script was wanting for years, and still is.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2003

This corpse defies reanimation.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2003

Who wins? Without telling, I can say it's almost irrelevant. Buy a ticket and you lose.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Considering what the filmmakers had to work with, and the fact that it has all been done before, Freddy Vs. Jason isn't bad.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Unlike, say, the Scream movies, which playfully tweaked the conventions of the slasher sub-genre, the new film tends to serve them up '80s-style -- straight and bloody.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2003

Despite oblique references to Psycho and Children of the Corn, Freddy vs. Jason lacks the knowing wit needed to keep it afloat in an age when even the horror spoofs have been spoofed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Nicely balancing mayhem and mirth, Yu keeps his film kicking. The action is lovingly lurid, and the laughs keep coming.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 15, 2003

Too much chatting, not enough chills.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

The website is more entertaining than the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003