Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday mask while digging in the dirt. Freddy Krueger's gloved hand bursts out of the dirt and pulls Jason's mask into the ground. John D. LeMay is one of only two actors from the TV series to appear in the film series; the other is John Shepherd, who played Tommy Jarvis in "". Producer Sean S. Cunningham originally conceived an action-horror film in which Jason Voorhees would battle Freddy Krueger of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series. Paramount Pictures, who had released the previous eight "Friday the 13th" films, negotiated with New Line Cinema over the rights to the series,
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Voorhees actually exists, have begun making plans to trap him and "send him straight to Hell." Freddy Krueger's clawed hand coming out of the ground and taking Jason's mask was a reference to the future crossover "Freddy vs. Jason" between the two, which had been in development hell since 1987. It was finally finished in 2003, a year after this film's sequel. The film features the appearances of the skull dagger and Necronomicon from "Evil Dead II". Jason, Freddy, and Ash Williams would later meet in the comic book series "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash" (a story adapted by writer