Freddy vs Jason 2
                         By Gene Mazza II and David Dunwoody
                          Based upon characters created by
                       Wes Craven, Victor Miller and Sam Raimi
                                  December 17, 2003



	A tableau of flashbacks welcomes us into the gruesome and 
glorious world of THE EVIL DEAD. A voiceover – that of a certain 
weary, hard-nosed hero – drones over the horrific scenes.



"My name is Ash.



"As long as I can remember, I've been running from The Evil. It 
took everything that mattered to me. All I've got left is the 
memory...the cabin in the mountains. 



"We found an ancient book bound in human flesh: Necronomicon ex 
Mortis, the Book of the Dead. It contained bizarre burial rites 
and demon resurrection passages. There's real Evil out there, 
and the book knows how to find it...something awoke in those 
woods, something that came for us, over and over again - until I 
was the only one left.



"Then it came for me. And it hasn't stopped."



Flashback of Ashley J. Williams in the final moments of 
ARMY OF DARKNESS, riding a cart in his S-Mart uniform and 
pumping shotgun loads into a female Deadite. Cut to Ash in his 
manager's office, being read the riot act – his soon-to-be 
former employer's voice fading to a dull roar as Ash realizes 
what his life is yet to become.



Ash couldn't be more down on his luck; sitting in his dingy 
apartment with a spread of Chinese food, the once-handsome 
college boy is drenched in shadow as his electricity is cut.



Ash's tale of woe ends on a scaffolding, as he recounts the 
story that brought him here, to a man whose grungy threads belie 
his role as a construction worker. Ash wears the same work vest 
and grimy smears, but the man gives him an oddball look as if 
he's never seen him before, and descends the scaffold. As Ash 
stretches out under the night sky, we pull back to reveal the 
expansive shores of Crystal Lake.



Far across the black water, the quintessential teenage 
couple have dipped in for some late-night romance. As things get 
hot and heavy, the boy feels something jab him underwater. He 
reaches down and brings up a most familiar piece of hand-wear – 
Freddy Krueger's bladed glove. The girl recalls seeing something 
of the type in a photo from some news report months back – back 
when that fire destroyed the condos on the other side of the 
lake.



They return to shore, the boy playfully severing her bra 
clasp with the glove. Not amused, she lights up a joint, and 
they pass it back and forth. Now even more in the mood for some 
rigorous lovemaking despite the earlier rebuffing, the boy is 
disappointed to find his gal suddenly passed out on her blanket 
(he doesn't notice that the dropped glove has vanished). 
Sighing, he walks over to the edge of the forest to relieve 
himself. A dark, malformed head leers out from the woods, and he 
breaks into a run without zipping himself up.



The boy tears through the trees and emerges further down 
the shore, only to be cut off by the shadowy figure – FREDDY 
KRUEGER. That's right, he's asleep and now he's fucked, as 
Freddy rises from his predatory crouch with a cackle. He's 
retrieved his glove, and lunges for the fatal strike when the 
teen's face suddenly explodes, spraying Krueger with bone and 
brain matter. He's enraged, and for good reason – this seems to 
have happened before, A LOT. This is his new Hell, cruelly 
teased with the gratification of a young kill, but denied at the 
last second – cock-blocked by a certain local rival.



Back in reality, we find Jason Voorhees' massive boot 
planted in the remains of the boy's skull. As he pulls out, we 
find the awakened girlfriend slipping into hysterics. But before 
the first scream can rip out her mouth, Jason runs his machete 
through it. Satisfied, he turns to leave the open shore, but 
something catches his eye: the glove, still lying where the boy 
dropped it. RECOGNITION flashes in Jason's eyes, and his body 
tenses. He snatches up the glove and tromps into the forest.



Back on the scaffold, a good view of the restored 
construction project behind him, Ash cracks open a beer and 
takes a swig, unaware of the nearby slaughter. Hollow, wet 
breathing accompanies a POV watching him from the woods. A 
snapping twig draws his attention. We blast toward him with an 
erratic, Raimi-inspired zoom.



But nothing. It's not Jason. Ash keeps his cool and climbs 
down from the scaffolding using his prosthetic hand. Only then 
does a gnarled claw clamp onto his back. It's only another 
worker, an old man who laughs at Ash's tension. When Ash 
explains that he heard something in the woods, the man wants to 
hear nothing of it – he explains that every gust of wind in 
these parts is attributed to a local curse named Jason. Ash has 
heard – and seen – stranger, but he's called away by his other 
buddies before he can scoff at yet another genuine threat.



Deep in the woods, a huge Victorian manse has had the life 
strangled from it by years of decay and the encroaching nature 
around it. This is the Voorhees House, as indicated by the 
crudely-stenciled mailbox in the F.G. Jason, in fact, stalks 
past it with Freddy's glove in hand. Inside, he walks down to 
the cellar, a deeply-dark chamber where the only light is the 
flickering glow of candles – candles surrounding a corpse-laden 
shrine of sorts, much like Jason's old tribute to his mother. 
But this is no tribute – the centerpiece of the nightmare is 
Freddy himself, a stunned-looking head planted on a stake, his 
unclaimed victims piled around him as notches on Jason's belt. 
And now, Jason adds the glove to his "trophy case" with a 
contemptuous throw.



The following morning at the construction site, Ash, along 
with two pals, Mike & Rob, survey some vandalism with their 
coworkers and site manager. Vehicles, structures, equipment – 
nothing has been spared, and this isn't the first time. A 
Crystal Lake Sheriff's Dept. cruiser pulls up. Ash rolls his 
eyes; the cavalry is a few hours too late. His cynicism is wiped 
from his face as beautiful Deputy Holly Noble gets out of the 
car. A tough-looking woman, Noble is followed by greasy Deputy 
Berg. The site manager is instantly upon her. Why haven't the 
police done anything to prevent this? Holly tells him, as she 
told his boss, that this was bound to happen, and Crystal Lake's 
cops aren't the private security firm that Lake Crystal Resorts 
should have hired.



Ash feels the need to put his foot down with this small-
town firecracker. He tries to interject, but is left scraping 
his jaw off the ground as Holly shoots her mouth off with wit 
and bravado to rival his own. She's entirely unimpressed by his 
claims of having seen some serious shit; this blue-collar nomad 
isn't a Crystal Lake native. Telling the site manager that 
she'll file a report, but little else, Holly makes her 
departure. Ash shrugs off the jeers of his buddies. The site 
manager demands that they get to work cleaning up, as a company 
man is coming down to assess the latest disaster.



In fact, Holly and the lecherous Berg are on the tree-lined 
access road, sparring over "Lefty's" affections when said 
company man cuts them off by swerving his big black sedan to 
block their path. Getting out, Alfred Wiesel launches into a 
tirade of verbal abuse. Berg shrinks into his seat, but Holly 
gets out and repeats the lecture she gave to the site manager – 
this time laced with the smart sarcasm to inform Wiesel that 
he's not messing with some backwoods farm girl. With a 
saccharine-sweet smile, Holly hands the flustered executive a 
ticket for his big-city driving techniques. Just then, Berg 
shows up; she thanks him for his assistance and returns to the 
car. From there, we and Holly can see Wiesel tearing into her 
partner. When he returns to the cruiser, she can only ask "Whose 
payroll are you on?"



Swinging onto the shoulder and around the sedan, the cops 
leave Wiesel sputtering in their dusty wake. He gets into his 
car, but before he can put his foot on the gas, another local 
has blocked his path – Jason Voorhees. Wiesel beats the horn and 
orders the machete-wielding psychopath out of his way. No dice; 
maybe this is the site's saboteur. Wiesel gets back out, barking 
threats to have Jason killed; with still no reaction from the 
masked slayer, he produces a chrome-plated .45 and waves it 
around. Jason's response is to seize Wiesel, turn his sedan on 
its side and skewer the pleading suit to the car's undercarriage 
with a length of muffler pipe. The sedan rolling into the 
foliage, Jason can continue on his patrol.



At Joey B's diner, the dinner rush is packing the place. 
The Lake Crystal crew have filled a few booths, but Ash waves 
them off as he arrives, opting for the counter and a few beers. 
Alone now, we see the misery of a man who's been on the run for 
years. Luckily, his favorite cop takes a seat beside him. Holly 
is off for a few hours before pulling the graveyard shift. 
Sparring with her once again, Ash coerces Holly into having a 
beer on his meager paycheck - "it's for my own good, believe me" 
- and they warm up to each other – a little. She asks him what 
his story is. He says that he's alone, he's on the move, and he 
likes it that way. Not very convincing. Ash also mentions a plan 
to stake out the site tonight with Mike & Rob. Holly says she'll 
swing by at midnight, just to make sure that they're not horsing 
around. He gives grudging thanks and leaves.



That night, six masked youths descend onto the site. Armed 
with chains, pipes and axes, they lay into the day's work with 
relish. Some are clearly having more fun than others, but it's 
all lost in a blur of orgiastic destruction. A POV watches from 
the woods, and suddenly veers toward them – it's Ash! Before he 
can administer his own abuse, they break free and scramble into 
the woods. Ash and friends can only give chase for so long 
before getting lost in the enormous, overgrown forest.



The six teens relax and unmask. Pretty-boy Scott examines 
an abrasion from poison ivy on his ankle. Cheerleader girlfriend 
Annie asks why she passed up a frat party for this Greenpeace 
rally, and stoner Joe attempts to extol the virtues of "smashing 
shit up on a Friday night". Rounding out the group, young Trish 
watches leader Ethan with admiration as he and his twin sister 
Sherry rant about being caught. More than anything, Ethan is 
furious over the ignorance of the developers – he and Sherry 
lost an uncle that they never knew in the 1980's, one of the 
counselors during the last ill-fated reopening of Camp Crystal 
Lake.



Ethan is silenced as they come upon the hulking Voorhees 
house choked within the woods. Not realizing that this is the 
birthplace of their most hated enemy, they decide to take 
shelter from Ash and the cops – they can get to Ethan's truck on 
the access road later.



Inside, Scott worries over his leg in the living room. 
Annie decides to ignore his whining and share a joint with Joe. 
Trish and Ethan sense something threatening about the house. 
Trish has always had a bit of a supernatural bent, but Ethan 
agrees that the house is just...wrong. At that moment, Sherry, 
picking through a bookshelf clotted with cobwebs, screams as a 
huge lump tears away and falls on her. It's the book described 
in Ash's introduction – Necronomicon Ex Mortis, the Book of the 
Dead! None of the group know anything about it, but Trish seizes 
the opportunity and bullshits her way through a theory as she 
thumbs through it. The arcane symbols filling its pages are 
annotated in English – she pulls Ethan to the floor, and the 
others join in on an impromptu sιance to pass the time. Except 
Joe, who wanders out and comes upon the basement door.



Scott won't stop complaining about his itching leg. Is it 
infected? "I thought you were my big boy," Wasted Annie slobbers 
onto his neck. He pushes her away, and she stalks out of the 
room. Scott is sent to the corner by the others, who are slowly 
becoming fascinated by the book. Drowsily, he keeps scratching 
at his leg – it seems like red, encrusted boils are developing 
all around his scratch. They're growing – pulsating – and 
suddenly BURST IN A ERUPTION OF PUS AND MAGGOTS! Scott screams 
and swipes at the onslaught of nauseating decay, as if his 
entire leg is filled with infected viscera. Suddenly, he 
realizes he's alone in the living room – no, he's not.



A brown shoe steps into the milky pool of writhing maggots. 
"Have I gotten under your skin yet, Scotty?" Freddy cackles.



Meanwhile in the real world, Trish has begun reading a 
passage from the book, the demon resurrection passage: "Kanda, 
Es-trata ta-toon hazan sobar...Ear-grets, Gat...Nos-
Feratos...Amantos...Kanda!" INTERCUT between Trish and Scott's 
dream, with her singsong voice spelling out his doom. Even 
Krueger doesn't notice as the sheen returns to his blades; the 
incantation is empowering him. In fact, he obviously doesn't 
expect much to come of this nightmare, but makes a half-hearted 
strike at Scott – and rams the blades home. They're both 
stunned. Impotent no more, Freddy is buried in the teen's gut. 
His shocked face transforms into a gleeful grin – and he tears 
Scott open from groin to gullet!



In the real world, Scott's head lolls slightly to the side, 
a trickle of blood seeping from his lips...Meanwhile, girlfriend 
Annie stumbles from the house, bored and pissed off, and enters 
the ominously-foggy woods. Suddenly, she comes into a new 
clearing with a new house – 1428 ELM STREET – right here in the 
Crystal Lake woods! The jump-rope girls sing the Freddy rhyme on 
the walk as Annie steps forward. She asks them where she is; 
without a word, the girls throw the ropes around Annie. A 
tricycle butts into her legs, bringing her down on its seat, and 
the ropes are used to tether her there. The girls tell her she'd 
found "the bad place" before she is wheeled into the house.



Inside, Annie struggles among the dusty & decay of the 
nightmare house. A cackle draws her attention to the top of the 
stairs, where Freddy saunters into view. A snip-snip motion of 
the gloves, and the jump ropes fall away. Annie throws herself 
at the front door, but it's painted onto the wall – no help at 
all. She turns back to find Freddy leering in her face! The 
floor opens and drops her into darkness.



Annie lands in the boiler room. She's on a large platform, 
and shapes disengage from the steam to reveal themselves as 
dozens of body bags, suspended from hooks and chains extending 
into the darkness. Freddy climbs out of a bag, and Annie backs 
onto a narrow catwalk. She loses sight of the dream 
stalker...but doesn't notice the empty bag rising behind her, 
its zippered maw opening like that of a Venus flytrap. Freddy 
leaps from the steam, startling her into the bag which closes 
over her face! Freddy wrestles his prize back onto the platform 
– "This one's in the bag" - and, with an overhand swing, plants 
it on its massive hook! The tip tears through the front of the 
bag. Squeezing the motionless mass, Freddy sucks down the 
ethereal mist that comes from the hole – Annie's soul is now 
his. Bagged lunch.



We return to the Voorhees basement to find Joe staring at a 
panorama of death and horror. Stepping over the many rotted 
corpses, he spies the glove and picks it up, not noticing the 
Fred-head staked nearby. Trish's recitation of the Evil words 
floats down the stairs...Just then, the head comes to life, 
snapping at Joe! Greenish-black gore begins pouring from the 
stump, splashing over Joe's feet in a scene reminiscent of THE 
EVIL DEAD's blood flood. He drops the glove and, slowly, 
impossibly, Freddy's hand reaches into view to pluck it up. 
Shaking blood droplets from his fedora, the regenerated Krueger 
slips the glove on and announces, "Freddy's back."



Joe bursts into the living room screaming bloody murder. 
Through all this, Scott is a sound sleeper. Trish rises with 
Necronomicon in hand and prods him. A red stain spreads along 
the vertical of his torso – he's dead. And there's no better 
proof than Freddy himself, who seizes Trish from behind! The 
others draw together, shouting at him. Freddy is more interested 
in the Book in Trish's hand. Terrified, she readily hands it 
over. He thanks her by fatally drawing his clawed hand from her 
throat. The others flee.



They flee right into the waiting arms of Ash, Mike and Rob, 
out in the front yard. "Who's the screamer?" Ash quips. Joe 
answers him by shrieking and pushing his way past into the 
woods. Ethan begs Ash to summon help – hearing a real and 
familiar fear in the boy's pleas, Ash lets he and Sherry go. 
Reminding his protesting buddies that there should be three more 
troublemakers inside, they enter.



A cry from the living room draws their attention. Shrouded 
in shadow, Trish cradles Scott's corpse. Mike and Rob start 
toward her, but Ash sees the book lying in the doorway..."No. Oh 
no. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" It's far too late, as Deadite Trish 
lunges forward and tears into Ash's pals. He grabs the book and 
turns to make his standard screaming exit. FREDDY IS RIGHT 
THERE! Without any sign of recognition, Ash slugs the ugly 
bastard and gets the hell out of the house.



Meanwhile, Joe is double-timing it through the woods when 
he collides with the massive bulk of Jason Voorhees. As we pull 
back, we see that he has actually run onto the machete. Cocking 
his head at this fortunate development, Jason shrugs the body 
from the blade and continues toward home. But he soon collides 
with another guy – Ash sizes up what must be a behemoth Deadite 
and curses his luck. Grabbing a branch, he shatters it across 
the masked face – no reaction. Ash's shock is just long enough 
for Jason to impale his hand. But it's the prosthetic, and Ash 
cries "HA!", pulling his arm away from the detached appendage, 
then promptly gets his ass kicked all over the woods.



Ash's humiliation spills back onto the construction site, 
where he manages to knock the machete from Jason before fleeing 
into a workshed. Jason blows the door off its hinges, seizing 
the nearest killing implement: a chainsaw. He discards the 
mechanized weapon in favor of an axe. Ash grabs the saw: 
"Groovy." His happiness is short-lived as Jason hurls him 
through the rear wall. Outside, they circle one another, but 
before the fight can begin, a new threat grabs their attention: 
Deadites, the corpses from the Voorhees house, including Mike 
and Rob, and they're pouring forth from the forest in all 
directions. CRANE UP for a bird's-eye view of Ash and Jason 
coming back-to-back against the undead uprising.



The Deadite slaughter sequence begins. Every available 
implement on the site, from chains to cinder blocks to pipes, is 
used to dispatch the zombies as Ash dodges the occasional swipe 
from Jason. Voorhees obviously isn't part of this demonic crew, 
but Ash has little time to reflect as his body takes brutal 
punishment. He hasn't fought like this since the Dark Ages, and 
it shows. He's eventually separated from Jason.



Jason's melee is interrupted by nearby laughter; Freddy is 
nearly crippled with glee as the Deadites, obviously under his 
control, attack Jason. When he looks up, wiping a tear from his 
eye, the Masked One is standing before him. "Oh shit." He breaks 
into a run. Shaking the prosthetic from his machete, Jason sets 
off in pursuit with the axe in his other hand.



Ethan and Sherry have reached the access road – just in 
time to miss Deputy Noble's patrol car as it heads for the site.



The deafening silence of the forest is even worse than the 
chaos of the lakeshore battlefield. Freddy is like a doomed 
counselor as he slinks among the trees, cringing at every sound 
– until Jason surprises him with a classic stealth move. Freddy 
tries a futile swipe – Jason knocks his ass into the tree, and 
Krueger can only open his mouth to plead. Unfortunately, Jason 
plants the axe in his head, and the machete in the side of his 
face – replicating Jason's own most infamous wounds and securing 
Freddy to the tree. It's over.



Ash limps across the site. The remaining two Deadites, Mike 
and Rob, lumber after him – "Give us the book!" They seem to cry 
through broken mouths. Even Jason would be a welcome sight at 
this point, but Ash only has his shaky legs and an unworking 
chainsaw to rely upon. In other words, end of the line. Just 
then, however, Holly Noble's patrol car pulls onto the site, and 
she's out in a flash, drawing her gun on the Deadites. Ash 
collapses. Mike and Rob pass him up in favor of fresh meat. 
Holly barks a final warning, but sees that these things clearly 
aren't human – and delivers a slug to each's head. They keep 
coming!



Somewhere in the cosmos, the long-awaited sound of a chainsaw 
ROARING to life. Ash rises behind Mike and Rob with the saw's 
starter cord in his teeth, and rips into their meat. As they go 
down, Holly hauls Ash into the cruiser and they peel out.



Inside, Ash informs Holly that THIS is the shit he's seen 
before, and that shooting them in the head, contrary to popular 
belief, won't do it – bodily dismemberment is the name of the 
game. Speaking of which, Holly takes notice of Ash's many 
wounds, and decides she needs to get him to her cabin for some 
emergency care. He's not about to argue...In the meantime, 
Jason, finished with his arch-nemesis, stalks back into the 
woods.



Holly bandages Ash up at her cabin while he gives her the 
lowdown on the Evil and how it's consumed his life. Anything and 
anyone close to him is lost, so he advises her to move along – 
but she shuts him up with a kiss. Maybe his luck is finally 
changing. Holly drops her gun belt and pushes Ash onto the bed.



After making love, Ash lies down alone and fights off sleep. He 
walks into the den, which has subtly changed to reflect the EVIL 
DEAD cabin. Ash activates a tape recorder on the desk, which 
begins to play a guttural, demonic recitation...speeding up into 
the Freddy rhyme. The Necronomicon rests beside the desk. It 
takes on Freddy's face – "I love getting into a good book!" – 
and as Ash realizes he has TWO hands, his right goes bad, 
sprouting claws from its fingertips!



Ash struggles across the room with his Evil hand. Seeing a 
machete jutting from the opposite wall, he grabs it and hacks 
off the offending appendage. It skitters through an open 
trapdoor into the cellar, almost beckoning for him to follow. He 
does – finding himself in the dank, grimy bowels of the boiler 
room. Ash finally grasps that he's dreaming. Freddy appears, 
marveling at the fact that his real-world death brought him 
here. "The rules have changed." And it's all thanks to the Book 
which is currently in Ash's possession.



Meanwhile, Holly checks in on Ash, only to find him jolting in 
the bed, great bruises spreading over his body.



Freddy is kicking Ash's ass when Ash starts to fade out. The 
dream stalker clenches his fists, knowing he is awakening – and 
Ash comes back in sharp relief. Another new ability! "You don't 
leave until I say so!" Krueger cackles. Ash musters the strength 
to land a decent blow, and his confidence starts to return. 
Spitting one-liners, he thrashes Freddy back through the filthy 
water. Krueger shuts Ash down with an invisible blow and says 
he's going to let him go – but he'll be back for the Book, and 
for the certain incantation locked deep within Ash's memory. The 
hapless hero snaps back to reality in Holly's arms.



Ethan and Sherry trudge down the access road, finally coming 
upon his pickup truck. Unfortunately, Jason has been waiting, 
and as he attacks Sherry, Ethan grabs a tow chain from the truck 
bed and slings it around Voorhees' neck. Jason releases Ethan's 
sister, only to give himself the leverage to throw Ethan. The 
boy wraps around a tree, his heels tapping the back of his head, 
and his corpse peels away.



A horrified Sherry padlocks the other end of the tow chain 
around a thick tree. Jason struggles with his makeshift noose 
while trying to track her; headlights hit his face, and the 
truck roars to life, sideswiping Jason, sending his body flying 
upward and then crashing back down as the chain pulls taut. 
Sherry swings around and strikes him again – and again – 
battering his undead body, sending it smashing into the tree. 
Finally, she hits him head-on, crippling the truck. They lock 
eyes before the vehicle explodes, throwing a smoldering Jason 
into the dirt.



At the cabin, Holly and Ash puzzle over the dream attacker. Ash 
says that he knows who it is: "His name's Fred Krueger. He kills 
children...he showed me." Freddy's parting gift sends chills 
through Ash. When he mentions the encounter with a hockey-masked 
rogue Deadite, Holly realizes that they're tangling with two 
horror heavyweights. Ash produces the Necronomicon from his vest 
and says he found it in an old house in the woods – raising 
Holly's eyebrow – and that it may be the only way to end it all. 
And Ash has to deliver the final blow. The crappy hand dealt him 
by Fate marked him as "The Chosen One", but he's starting to 
think he may not be the only one marked...



We come upon Jason's smoking corpse and zoom in through his eye 
hole, into his subconscious. Freddy is slogging through the 
murky dream-dog under a bleak, formless sky. His destination: a 
crude representation of the Voorhees house, sitting on a mist-
shrouded island of corpses and gnarled trees.



"You don't have enough doors to keep me out!" Krueger snarls as 
he bursts into the house. Tearing through room after room of the 
increasingly-deeper sanctuary, Freddy finally spies the Boy 
Jason running down the hall and pursues him to his dingy 
bedroom. When he hauls the Boy out from under his bed, the child 
is attired in an oversized boiler suit and hockey mask – he even 
wields a machete, like a security blanket, which he tries to 
fend off Freddy with. The cackling predator drags the Boy 
outside and lets him break free. On the lake front, Boy Jason 
finds Pamela, who, instead of rushing to his aid, slaps and 
berates him for failing her. Before the child can respond, 
Freddy rises behind Pam and decapitates her! He taunts Jason 
with the all-too-familiar head before CRUSHING IT.



The Boy lets loose an angered scream that rocks his 
subconscious. Freddy cries "let me hear it before I swallow your 
soul!", but he suddenly cringes as the very water of the dream-
bog begins to boil...and he turns to see a massive, hulking 
personification of Jason's undying rage – DARK JASON – breaking 
the water's surface. This Dark Jason, his exposed ribs threaded 
with vines, tattered rags smeared with grime, wears a mask of 
bone that is actually part of his skull. Freddy sees that the 
Boy has vanished and engages Dark Jason in battle.



Jason smacks Freddy's char-broiled ass across the dream-bog, 
slapping him through the makeshift house. Freddy sprouts four 
enormous machete blades in place of his finger knives, but he 
cannot overcome the juggernaut that is hammering mercilessly at 
him. Freddy decides to take the fight to his own turf, and sends 
Dark Jason tumbling through a watery chasm into the boiler room.



It is the original Jason who drops from a feeder pipe onto a 
steel platform. Freddy calls him out from a lower walkway. As 
they stand off, raking their respective blades over the 
pipeworks, Freddy drops a gauntlet of body bags to reveal a 
series of pipes that shoot water across Jason's path! But 
Voorhees is undaunted. He walks right through the water, 
conquering his greatest of fears to reach his target. This is 
Freddy's world, however, and Freddy's rules – he sends a huge 
hook flying into Jason's back, hauling the impaled stalker off 
the catwalk.



In Holly's cabin, she loads a shotgun in preparation for the 
final showdown as Ash puts together his chainsaw prosthesis. He 
tells her she can't go – he can't lose her – but this is Holly's 
town, and she isn't his to lose. Grimly acquiescing, Ash brings 
his weapon to life and saws the barrel off her gun. His plan: to 
give himself to Freddy, along with the Necronomicon – if it 
brought Freddy from the dream realm, perhaps Ash can take it in 
with him.



They drive to the lakefront construction site. Ash tells Holly 
that she'll have to knock him out, leaving her behind in the 
real world, of course. As the gloating Ash prepares her for what 
she has to do, she gives him a love-tap with her pistol and 
sends him to dreamland.



Ash finds himself on the main platform of the boiler room, 
holding the Book before the monstrous furnace. Krueger enters 
and takes a moment to gloat over the power that the Book will 
afford him: unfettered access to the dreams of anyone, anywhere. 
He believes it to be his destiny, a concept Ash understands all-
too-well. He revs up his saw as Jason dangles from the hook in 
the B.G.



It isn't over in the real world. Holly is fretting over her 
inability to help Ash when an unexpected guest drops in: Berg. 
Having had the damndest dream that night, Berg isn't surprised 
to find Ash here among dismembered corpses. Not only is he ready 
to pin every murder on our hero, he's ready to put a slug in his 
head right then and there – but Holly thinks otherwise. They 
draw their pistols and face off; Berg makes the wrong move and 
takes one between the eyes. His gun discharges into Holly's 
shoulder, knocking her unconscious.



Ash is ready to attack Freddy. The dream stalker senses a new 
presence and hauls Holly out of the steam clouds. "The book for 
the bitch," he demands, noting her profusely-bleeding wound. "We 
don't have all night." Holly won't let Ash hand over the book, 
but there doesn't seem to be any other way...until Jason, having 
watched the entire exchange, swings himself into Freddy and 
throws the standoff into total chaos.



Ash hurls the Necronomicon from the platform! Krueger severs 
Jason's chain, dropping him into a vat of water. Then Freddy 
flies at Ash, quickly wearing him down and, grabbing him by the 
chin, forcing him toward the furnace's licking flames. "Well-
done, Ash." He quips. Holly hits him from behind with a pipe, 
and Ash shoves his boomstick down Freddy's throat, blowing his 
jaw apart. With Freddy disabled, Holly starts to fade out of the 
dream world. Ash gives her a cocksure grin as she disappears.



Now it's just Ash and Freddy. Once again, the Chosen One is 
driven back by a relentless attack, suffering numerous slashes. 
Ash rises up and knocks Freddy from the platform.



Back in Jason's mind...he rises once again from Crystal Lake. 
This time, however, Freddy has the upper hand, and an 
overwhelming gallery of Jason's past victims surrounds him in 
the water. Now, Jason is being beaten by his own guilt. The 
supernatural pile-on swallows him, and every time he throws off 
a volley of attackers, they're replaced by even more. Jason is 
drowning in the undead. A voice calls to him: Pam's voice. 
Another trick? No, this is the real Pam, meeting Jason on the 
threshold between dreams and death where he first encountered 
Freddy. Voorhees surges through the remaining victims and sends 
them back to their watery grave.



As Jason listens intently, Pamela tells him that she never 
wanted this for the boy; he's been a good son, but this isn't 
his fault, and she doesn't want him to be where she is. This 
absolution has come with a stinging rejection for Jason. Still, 
Mother urges him to go back and finish with the "mean old man", 
so that he can finally be at peace. He turns toward the dream-
lake with new resolve.



Ash ventures back into the depths of the boiler room, where the 
Necronomicon lies precariously on a thin walkway. Freddy drops 
onto the other side. He's going to get the book...That is, until 
the nearby boiler shudders and explodes, throwing Jason and a 
rain of steel shards onto the walkway! The Book falls and Ash is 
caught between Freddy and Jason as they stab at each other. He 
contorts himself comically to avoid the arch-enemies. Finally, 
Ash is forced to block both of them - Jason with his shotgun, 
and Freddy with his saw - and they hurl him into space.



Freddy lures Jason down to the last level. Here, he sidesteps a 
machete thrust and shoves his blades into Jason's chin, hurling 
him into an overhead array of pipes. Now skewered on the pipes, 
Jason is smashed against a wall. Ash attacks Freddy and receives 
a faceful of flying pipes. With both enemies down for the count, 
Krueger goes after the Necronomicon.



Jason is dropped to the floor. He and Ash stagger to their feet. 
Jason begins to bring down the boiler room – unfortunately, Ash 
is in the way and they spar in the midst of buckling pipeworks 
and falling platforms. Jason sends Ash hurtling through yet 
another wall as Freddy's realm is finally undone. The hero lands 
in Jason's dream-forest. Jason moves in for the kill, but he's 
caught in a seething mass of branches; a grinning "Freddy-tree" 
has captured him, and is now devouring him! Ash buries his saw 
in the tree, freeing Jason in great gouts of green blood. 
Krueger's taunting laughter lures them both to a monolithic 
Gothic cathedral in the middle of the forest. This is the chapel 
of NIGHTMARES past – the site of the last battle.



Jason enters first. Freddy stands before the altar in priestly 
garb, egging the Masked One on. He disables Jason with a 
baptismal font full of acid. Then Ash throws open the double 
doors, and Freddy causes all of the oak pews to fly up & 
congregate in front of him. Now he can lift Jason into the air 
with unseen puppet-strings and slam him against the cross above 
the altar. Barbed-wire and finger-knife stakes finish the job of 
crucifying Voorhees. As the piece de resistance, Freddy inverts 
the cross to bring his captive to eye level, and backhands him 
with his own hockey mask.



Ash saws through the barricade: "Krueger - Come get some." 
Freddy is more than ready. He opens the Necronomicon, lighting 
the candles on either side of the altar, and demands that Ash 
locate and recite the words that will complete his ascension. 
Ash thrusts his chin into the air and rebukes Freddy. They spit 
one-liners at one another, Krueger growing furious, telling Ash 
that he'll take away what little there is to cherish in his 
pathetic life – "You'll never sleep again!!"



This is the crux of Ash Williams' destiny. Whipping the 
boomstick over his shoulder, he declares, "you want me to read? 
I've got a bedtime story for ya – HAIL TO THE KING."



He lets loose a twin-barreled blast. Freddy dodges aside, not 
noticing the crossbeam of Jason's cross as it splinters. Pulling 
his barbed-wire-entangled wrists free, Jason drops down and 
surprises Freddy with a gruesome backhand. He swings the machete 
– Freddy once again dodges, and this time the Necronomicon is 
cleaved in half!



Jason strikes Freddy with one of the large candlesticks. Pages 
from the Book are aflame and sailing across the chapel. Freddy 
leaps up, and he and Jason begin to stab the living Hell out of 
one another. Ash picks up a familiar page.



Jason impales Freddy on the machete and twists it, opening a 
gaping hole in Krueger's torso. He then nails Freddy to the 
altar. As enraged and horrified as Freddy is, it is the 
articulate words spoken by Ash that draw his attention: "Klaatu. 
Varata. Niktu."



Needless to say, this isn't the passage Freddy was looking for.



A vortex opens behind Jason and Freddy. Bracing himself against 
the altar, Jason watches as Freddy starts sliding UP the blade 
of the machete, towards his demise. The vortex is beginning to 
suck fire and debris into its maw. Ash grabs wearily onto a pew; 
Freddy anchors his claws in Jason's guts. Blood vomits from the 
wound in his back. His spine arcs out and snaps in half.



Ash loses his grip and flies toward the vortex. Jason CATCHES 
him and slams him down behind the altar. Freddy stares into 
Voorhees' eyes as a gelatinous lump – his own black, malformed 
heart – starts emerging from his back. He screams every futile 
threat he can think of. He screams Jason's name.



Arteries and veins tear free, and Freddy Krueger's heart flies 
into the vortex. His eyes go white and roll back. The church 
doors are blown open, a violent wind sweeping through the chapel 
and blowing Freddy's dead husk to ash.



Ash himself gets up, stepping warily back from Jason. The Masked 
One is staring at the place where the vortex was; where warm 
light now shines through a stained-glass window. Without a word, 
Ash exits the chapel. We leave Jason standing before the altar 
in the sunlight. Contemplating.



Ash awakens at dawn – not dead - in Holly's arms. She has 
bandaged herself and him up, and helps him to his feet. "Is 
Krueger gone?" She asks. "Better be," he replies before pulling 
off the saw and hurling it into the lake. Holly asks about Jason. 
Unseen to her, Ash purses his lips. "...Sure. He's won't be 
bothering this town again." Throwing on his patented smirk, he 
turns and begins, "Gimme some" – but the Chosen One's future is 
now unwritten. He gives her a kiss, a real kiss, and they head 
up the shore, over twitching Deadite limbs, into the woods.



"I'd like to get a place out here," Ash muses as we FADE OUT.




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