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There aren't many great things about either of these two franchises, there are 18 movies between them (counting this one), so the seriousness of the plots went out the window years ago. When Paramount owned the Jason movies, I think they kept trying to bring it to a new level and make another Texas Chainsaw Massacre or any other classic horror film. By the time they got to Part 7 (Jason Takes Manhattan), they must've realized the formula didn't work and made it purposely made it campy. This isn't to say that parts 3-6 weren't but again, I think Paramount was searcing for a real horror film there.

New Line knew the formula years ago, and made the switch with Nightmare 3. The real way to grasp viewers was to come up with new and inventive deaths, quick Freddy one-liners, etc. Unfortunately, all of the middle movies were flawed by horrible acting and even worse scripts. Wes Craven came back in with New Nightmare, which is probably the only other movie in the series worth watching, save a few death scenes in the middle flicks.

So, Paramount sold New Line the rights to Jason, and for many years, did nothing with them. Jason Goes to Hell was New Line's first stab at the films, which again, wasn't well received because of the acting and absence of Jason. Freddy took a back seat for a while, too. For whatever reason, the film that's been talked about happening for years, finally happened.

What makes this movie so good? They finally have a script that is campy enough to suck, but not so badly it loses it's audience in minutes. I think it's great that these teenagers grab these outrageous concepts out of their hats to know how Jason and Freddy came back, and what Freddy's up to. The death scenes are new and inventive, Freddy is loaded with new dialogue and quips, and the girls are nice to look at. This movie has it all, death, Freddy, violence, girls, nudity, and one of the biggest battles since King Kong vs. Godzilla.

It's about time someone tried to do something with Batman, if Warner won't. It combines three movies I think fans would love to see, though because of this it suffers from lack of time. Very cool idea, it leaves a lot up to the imagination as to how it began or how it ends, or what happens to certain other villians. I thought the villians costumes looked amazing, I assume someone broke into the Fox props department for those. This was short, but darker than even Burton's first Batman movie, though this one relies a little heavy on his script, at least at first. The directing was great, too, there were several well composed shots, which says a lot about an 8 minute film. I loved the fact that Bats was in his classic black and grey costume, which was made of cloth and not rubber. If you have the disk space and the time to DL this, you won't be disappointed.