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FILM NOTES
Freddy vs. Jason arrived in 2003 from New Line Cinema after years of development limbo, finally pitting two of horror's defining slashers against one another. Directed by Ronny Yu, it capped both the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises with a crossover fans had demanded since the early nineties. The film became a box office success and a genre milestone, marking the last theatrical outing for Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees together, and it remains a touchstone for collectors of both series and of slasher cinema broadly.
This piece comes from the opening credits sequence, the moment where the film's name first appears on screen and announces the meeting of its two icons. Title card cells hold particular value for collectors because they mark the picture's identity before a single scare unfolds, the frame audiences saw before the rivalry began. For a crossover built entirely on anticipation, this instant carries outsized weight, representing the culmination of a decade of fan speculation distilled into a single card.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Freddy vs. Jason (2003).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the lower picture edge; Dolby Digital data blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge, consistent with a mid-2000s release print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
The base shows a slight cyan-teal tint consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image reads as a deep blue-dominant frame with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot and display title-card text reading 'FREDDY VS. JASON', consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a cyan-base colour stock, variable-area optical track, and apparent Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2003 release date of the film on record.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000062904
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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