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 Takes Manhattan", involves Jason being confronted by a street gang of young teenage boys one of whom threatens him with a knife, however Jason chooses not to kill them and instead scares them off by lifting up his mask and showing them his face. Likewise, director Tom McLoughlin chose not to have Jason harm any of the children he encounters in "Jason Lives," stating that Jason would not kill a child, out of a sympathy for the plight of children generated by his own death as a child. In "Jason Goes to Hell", director Adam Marcus decided to include a