Where the story left off was the townspeople of Elm Street had figured out how to beat Freddy Krueger and had banished him from their lives. Because he fed on fear by not thinking about him and forgetting him he no longer had any power to haunt them. But the problem is that Freddy does not like being forgotten and has come up with a plan to make them remember him once more. The plan involves Jason Voorhees who has also been beaten and no slumbers on the shores of Camp Crystal Lake. When Freddy comes to visit Jason in his dreams he disguises himself as Jason’s mother and tells him that he must wake up and go to Elm Street to punish the children who have been bad. As Freddy sees it the people of Elm Street will instantly think he has returned and begin to fear him once more, thereby restoring him to power. But when Jason arrives he instantly goes to work and starts to slaughter the children in mass numbers, so Freddy’s plan has backfired as all the children are dieing and Jason is leaving nothing for him. So now Freddy must find away to draw Jason back into the dream world where Freddy has the power to defeat him and get back his children. It appears to horror icons are about to clash in a climatic battle to the death, winner take all.

When I was a kid these movies were like the Holy Grail for us because we were forbidden to see them making them that more enticing. They had everything a twelve year old wanted in a movie from nudity, to blood and gore, even an element of scaring the crap out of us. I have to admit, as I have gotten older I have come to dislike horror films and I rarely give a good review to such films, as they are not my cup of tea. But that it why I am pleasantly surprised by this movie because I actually enjoyed it and found myself wondering what was going to happen next. By no means did the movie scare me, I think I may have slightly jumped once and that was it, but I don’t think that was the point of the movie. I think the point was the climatic battle between two classic horror icons that have huge followings. The movie did this to perfection they took exactly enough time setting up the battle, they took exactly the right amount time with the battle and they even had the courtesy to set up the story by letting us less knowledgeable viewers know where both series left off. What more could you ask for they did not exclude those of us who have not seen a movie from either series in at least ten years and at the same time managed to totally entertain us and draw us into their movie. The movie is no masterpiece and does not hold a candle to some of the greater horror movies like Psycho but I don’t think that was ever their intentions, I think the movie was about a what if the two great horror icons met in battle and they gave us that. I probably will never see the movie again but that did not stop me from enjoying it the first time I saw it.
3.5 stars out of 5