Freddy vs. Jason Freddy vs. Jason Freddy vs. Jason (alternatively known as A Nightmare on Friday the 13th) is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film is a spin-off crossover between "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" series, and pits Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees against each other in the eighth and eleventh installments in their respective series. The film is also the last in both "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" series before they were both rebooted. In the film, Freddy (Robert Englund) has
Jason Voorhees calculated because he feels that he has been wronged and he is fighting back; he is meant to be more sympathetic in this film. Fuller and Form contend that they did not want to make Jason too sympathetic to the audience. As Brad Fuller explains, "We do not want him to be sympathetic. Jason is not a comedic character, he is not sympathetic. He's a killing machine. Plain and simple." In 2005, California State University's Media Psychology Lab surveyed 1,166 people Americans aged from 16 to 91 on the psychological appeal of movie monsters. Many of the characteristics associated with