If you’re going to do a film where you get two famous characters from different franchises to battle out then I guess this how you do it, it’s just a shame the characters are from some of the most nauseating horror film franchises. Perhaps it was inevitable that the antagonists of “A Nightmare On Elm Street” and “Friday The 13th” would fight one another and at least it’s more entertaining than the “Alien vs. Predator” pictures.

In this film, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund “A Nightmare On Elm Street”) is sick of the fact that the teens he loves to terrorise, are no longer afraid so he enlists the help of Jason Voorhees to help him out. As the two are hacking away teen after teen, Freddy suddenly realises that Jason is stealing his business so the two engage in combat. Who wins? Who cares? You know they’ll bring them both back for a sequel or remake or whatever.

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees are not scary and never have been but it is fun to watch them fight one another. They fight by burning, stabbing, slicing, cutting, punching and pretty much anything of a similar nature. The teenagers are as dull as ever.

If you wanted to watch Freddy and Jason batter one another into submission, this film offers just that; if you wanted anything more than that, you were being too optimistic. For a film designed to just show two characters from rival franchises hitting one another then it succeeds, it does what the “Alien vs. Predator” films failed to do. I still prefer “Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man” for my favourite film of this type but maybe you’re a fan of slasher films from the 80s and 90s rather than the 30s and 40s so maybe this will be more of your kind-of thing.