Crossover Movie Poster: Friday the 13th

A reboot of the horror franchise. An obnoxious jock named Trent is one of Jason Voorhees’ victims. This is meant to be Trent DeMarco from the movie Transformers, directed by Friday the 13^th producer Michael Bay. Travis Van Winkle played Trent in both films. The events of the Transformers films, involving giant shape-changing robots engaging in very public and destructive battles, are incompatible with CU continuity, and therefore I consider those films and this one as taking place in an AU.

Crossover Movie Poster: Hatchet II

Marybeth Dunstan, the last survivor of a group of tourists slaughtered by the ghostly slasher Victor Crowley, returns to the bayou with a group of hunters and gunmen to end his threat once and for all. The Jack Chop is sold at Reverend Zombie’s store, and the TV in there shows Parker O’Neil saying she’s never going skiing again. Chad asks if Crowley is “like Jason Voorhees or something?,” and refers to the town of Glen Echo and a man called Leslie Vernon. The Jack Chop is from Green’s short film of the same name, while Parker O’Neil is from his film Frozen. The reference to Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series can easily be interpreted as to a real slasher. The town of Glen Echo and Leslie Vernon are from the film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, which I wrote about in a previous post. Further bolstering the inclusion of the Hatchet series in the CU is a later battle between Crowley and Cassie Hack and Vlad of Hack/Slash fame.

Crossover of the Week

2005

BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON

            Aspiring slasher Leslie Vernon seeks to follow in the footsteps of the great slashers that came before him. Footage is shown of Camp Crystal Lake, the town of Springwood, Ohio, and Haddonfield, Illinois as places that have suffered slasher attacks. Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and Chucky are mentioned by name as existing. A Lament Configuration can be seen in the house of Leslie’s friends Eugene and Jamie. Leslie has a bottle of Stay Awake medicine on his mantlepiece.

            2006 horror film. The references connect Vernon to most of the important slasher series: Friday the 13^th (Jason Voorhees and Crystal Lake), A Nightmare on Elm Street (Freddy Krueger, Springwood, and Stay Awake), Halloween (Michael Myers and Haddonfield), and Child’s Play (Chucky.) The Lament Configuration is from the Hellraiser movies, based on Clive Barker’s story “The Hellbound Heart.” Of interest, one deleted scene has Leslie mentioning that he spent some time in Texas, helping a fellow slasher who was trying to “reinvent his thing,” a reference to Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, and a nod to both the originals and the 2003 remake. Some references in the film do seem to imply that slashers lack supernatural powers, but this can be seen as Leslie simply using showmanship and stage magic to make up for abilities he lacks; this is backed up by a reference to Leslie Vernon in the ghost-slasher film Hatchet II.

Crossover Cover: Death Moon

According to this book, one legend about Jason Voorhees states that his great-great-great-great-grandfather Jebediah Voorhees was a warlock who possessed a copy of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis (from the Evil Dead films.) After his seeming death in 1667, the book was eventually passed down to Jason’s father Elias, who accidentally summoned a demon with it that allegedly possessed Jason. This novel is a tie-in to the movie Jason X, which has Jason being brought out of cryogenic suspension in 2455, when the Earth has been overcome by pollution and humans have relocated to a new planet called Earth Two. This does not fit with the future of the CU’s Earth seen in other stories set in the 25^th Century or later, and therefore Jason X must take place in an alternate timeline. However, the historical details about Jebediah Voorhees could be true in CU continuity as well.

Crossover Covers: Hack/Slash Part 2

Besides the characters shown yesterday, slasher hunters Cassie Hack and Vlad have also met:

Mercy Sparx, a demon created by Josh Blaylock, who has been recruited by Heaven to track down rogue angels....

The depraved supervillain Bomb Queen, whose alternate reality Cassie traveled to from the CU (and who traveled to the CU herself in the storyline "Interdimensional Women's Prison Breakout")...

Eva, Daughter of Dracula...

The ghostly slasher Victor Crowley, from the Hatchet film series...

And in the coda to Cassie and Vlad's saga, Ash Williams from the Evil Dead films and the comic book Army of Darkness.

This series wracked up an impressive number of crossovers in its years of publications. As a bonus, here's a one page unofficial comic by creator Tim Seeley in which Cassie and Vlad meet two other master killers: Dexter Morgan (from the television series Dexter) and Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th movies.) I'm probably not going to include this in the book, but it's still pretty cool, particularly as I'm a Dexter fan.