Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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Freddy vs. Jason (2003; dir. Yu)
The film begins with Freddy Krueger lamenting that he has been forgotten
for too long, making him weak. He wants the people of Elm Street to fear him once
again, so in order to do that, Freddy resurrects Jason to kill for him. This would
cause people to remember Freddy, giving him strength again. Jason then begins to
kill the people of Elm Street, mainly teenagers, while others begin to have
nightmares of Freddy. As people gradually remember Freddy, he becomes
increasingly more powerful until he is brought back to life. However, Freddy can no
longer control Jason, leading to a fight between the two of them to determine who
will continue to kill. The fight ends inside Crystal Lake, as Jason emerges carrying
Freddy’s severed head. The film ends, however, with Freddy’s head looking at the
camera and winking.
Friday the 13 th (2009; dir. Nispel)
Friday the 13 th (2009) begins similarly to the denouement of Friday the 13 th ,
with a teenage girl confronted by Mrs. Voorhees who says that the counsellors
should have been watching Jason when he drowned. The girl decapitates Mrs.
Voorhees and she runs away. After this, a hand is shown picking up the locket that
was previously around Mrs. Voorhees’s neck. An unspecified amount of time after
these events, a group of teenagers go camping around Crystal Lake, and are all
seemingly killed by Jason. Following this, a teenager named Clay arrives near
Crystal Lake looking for his missing sister Whitney, who was part of the group that
was just killed. Clay encounters another group of teenagers travelling to their friend
Trent’s parents’ lake house for the weekend. Jason begins to kill each member one
at a time, while Clay continues searching for Whitney, who it is eventually revealed