During the teen slasher craze. Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, H20, Valentine, Final Destination, etc. etc.
Freddy and Jason were absent for this era and this is the closest they got. Would have been neat if this movie came out 4-5 years earlier.
I agree. It's a shame they couldn't get the license away from Paramount for so long. The movie was good. I think it could have been better if it was released years earlier though. Watching the Never Sleep Again documentary, they had alot of ideas they were tossing around and scripts they had been written that seemed interesting.
shareShut the fck up!
sharei feel you but this movie still would have been lame regardless. it needed a more "realized" screenplay.
shareIt would've been too meta, wouldn't it?
shareI don't think it would have been better as a 1997/1998 film than what we got in 2003.
Now 1988-1989 may be up for debate, hard to picture how this would have turned out in the late 80s.
They *did* try to get this made all throughout the 90s, and it couldn't get off the ground because all the scripts they commissioned all had overly complicated plots trying to get Freddy and Jason to meet and fight each other, usually introducing elaborate high-concept gimmicks that didn't resemble either A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th at all.
Even if they'd managed to reign that in earlier, I'm not convinced FvJ would've turned out all the different in the late 90s. It already is pretty much the last of the Scream wave of horror, if it had come out 4 or 5 years earlier I think it would've been much the same but with worse special effects, and I suspect it would've only leaned even more into cheesiness, not less.
I liked this movie but the real problem with it and with the previous New Line Jason films is that they technically can't reference the original movies. It's why in Freddy Vs. Jason Stubbs just says, "Then they made the mistake of killing his mother." Basically, Alice and all the other characters from the original movie can't legally be named. Parts 2-8 never happened. New Line can only use Jason and his mother. Nothing else. It's why they can't make a sequel to the original movies like the fans want.
Then again, Jason Goes to Hell doesn't feel connected with the original movies anyway. Especially with him having a sister, a niece, and a great niece. Hardcore fans of it will defend that by saying Adam Marcus intended her to be the offspring of Jason's father and a woman he married after Pamela's death. Except she's way too old for that to be the case. The orginal took place in 1980 so that would mean Jason's sister would not have been born til the early to mid 80s. She shouldn't be old enough to have a grown up daughter. What a poorly written, poorly thought out film!