Freddy vs. Jason


Colosseum (4005939649821)
Varèse Sarabande (0030206649826)
Movie | Released: 2003 | Format: CD
 

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# Track   Duration
1.The Legend2:39
2.The House On Elm Street1:40
3.Girl With No Eyes3:08
4.The Psych Ward0:40
5.Gibb Meets Freddy2:58
6.Will's Story2:33
7.French Kiss1:56
8.The Control Room1:46
9.Jason's Surprise Attack2:49
10.Jason's First Dream0:56
11.Stoner Creature0:54
12.Freddy's Dream World1:09
13.Jason Unmasked3:46
14.In The Library2:40
15.Freddy Gets Young Jason3:28
16.Wake Up Lori1:48
17.Freddy In The Real World0:57
18.Fight On The Dock2:33
19.Freddy Expires2:36
20.Is It Ever Over?1:28
 42:24
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Freddy vs. Jason - 04/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at (English)
When it comes to grudge matches, the one I'm looking forward to the most is a rematch between George W Bush and a Pretzel; it would probably make a better film than Freddy Vs Jason. Still, if two horror series' are failing, what better than to cut out the effort of making two separate films and just combine them into a single slanging match? I don't recall ever having seen any of the Nightmare of Elm Street or Friday the 13th films, I don't actually see the point of going to the cinema with the sole intent of being frightened. If I wanted to scare myself, I'd think of William Shatner naked, which, as you can imagine, is a lot cheaper and a lot more frightening. The Nightmare on Elm Street films have had a succession of different composers, perhaps the most notable being Christopher Young who scored the first sequel. Friday the 13th almost exclusively relied on the talents of Harry Manfredini and Jason's Theme from those scores makes a cameo appearance during Graeme Revell's.

I don't know if it's my imagination, but almost every other new score I review seems to be from a horror film and the one thing I almost always say about horror scores is that they are invariably less interesting on disc than they are in the film. Unfortunately, this applies to Freddy vs Jason which largely sounds like bits cobbled together from every Marco Beltrami, Elia Cmiral or Revell horror score ever written. There are the obligatory eerie, high strings, the occasional thumps to keep you awake and lots of discordant brass, but frankly, it's often not music, it's just sound effects done with an orchestra. Ten out of ten for sound design, but one out of ten for musicality. The aforementioned Jason's Theme is, I think, some weird, synthetically altered vocal effect that sounds like somebody sneezing slowly in a very large, echoey cave.

Fortunately, the action tracks are a little more interesting, with skittering synths that are a little more effective than the norm and tracks such as Jason Unmasked are modestly exciting. Despite my reservations about its listenability, I suppose it is impressive achievement to conceive some of the mixtures of synths and orchestra that Revell (and Beltrami in his scores) has come up with as it's quite a bizarre combination of sounds. Of course, it's entirely possible that the orchestral parts are written, performed and then Revell plays around with synth noises overlaying then randomly. Freddy vs Jason isn't exactly the worst modern horror score I've heard recently, but I'd still be hard pressed to recommend it. It's not exactly enjoyable (but then most horror scores, by their nature, aren't), doesn't really break any new ground and at times, is frankly irritating. For fans of the genre, it's a midline entry, but for everyone else, there are much better discs to invest in.
Freddy vs. Jason - 09/10 - Review of Sybren van der Schoot, submitted at (Dutch)
Het was een script dat bijna 20 jaar in de maak was: Freddy Krueger en Jason Voorhees, die op de vuist gaan in dezelfde film. Regisseur Ronny Yu ( Bride Of Chucky), schrijvers Damian Shannon & Mark Swift ( Friday the 13th 2009) en een cast van nieuw talent beloofde een knaller van een versus film te maken. Jason word via Freddy opnieuw tot leven gewekt, en moet naar Springwood om tieners aan de Elmstreet af te slachten, hopend dat de angst voor de droomdemoon hem uiteindelijk sterk genoeg maakt om weer in iedere tieners'nachtmerries rond te slashen. Jason laat zich echter niet snel van z'n favoriete hobby afhouden en aldus begint de Clash of the Titans. Graeme Revell ( Bride of Chucky, The Fog, Hand that rocks the Cradle) scoorde ook deze film, en weet een aardige balans te maken tussen de Elmstreet muziek en de bekende Jason themes, overgoten met een sausje gitaar, beats en snerende strijkers. De score is afwisselend en bied voor de fans van beide iconen een interessante kijk. Elke scene is herkenbaar uit de film, iets wat ook positief is in mijn ogen, en de tracks zijn niet te kort en zeker ook niet te lang. Het enige minpuntje is dat de score vrij kort duurt, maar ik ben al blij dat er uberhaupt een fatsoenlijke score bij deze film hoort.
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