Freddy vs. Jason: How Kane Hodder Subtly Made It Into The Movie – Screen Rant

Kane Hodder might have been passed over for the role of Jason Voorhees in Ronny Yu's 2003 movie, Freddy vs. Jason, but the actor found a way in.

As he is considered to be the best Jason Voorhees by most fans of theFriday the 13thfranchise, Kane Hodder was outwardly disappointed by his not being cast as Jason inFreddy vs. Jason; the stuntman and actor managed to make the final cut anyway.

Ronny Yu'sFreddy vs. Jason (2003) brought fans the highly-anticipated grudge match between two iconic horror franchise killers: Freddy Krueger fromA Nightmare on Elm Street (Robert Englund) andFriday the 13th's Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger). Not only has Kane Hodder played Jason more times than any other actor, and had a long-standing friendshipand playfully acted rivalrywith Robert Englund, who played Freddy in everyA Nightmare on Elm Streetmovie except the 2010 remake, which replaced him with Jackie Earle Haley. While the decision not to cast Hodder as Jason was mostly due to the director's aesthetic preference to have Kirzingerwho is 6'5", two inches taller than Hoddertower over the 5'9" Englund.

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However, in a true moment of circumstance, Hodder made it intoFreddy vs. Jason after all. The actor was vocal about his disappointment and the fans' disappointment that he didn't get to play out the big fight between Freddy and Jason on the big screen. Yu maintains that the decision to cast Kirzinger was New Line's decision, but the franchise's creator, Sean S. Cunningham disagreed that Kirzinger was the better choice. Perhaps Hodder was meant to be in the movie after allit would explain the random aspect of his cameo role.

Hodder mentioned his cameo in an interview with We Got This Covered back in 2018. According to Hodder, even the filmmakers weren't aware that he made it into the movie's final cut. Said Hodder, "there was a scene where they're at the insane asylum or whatever, the hospital, and there's a movie playing on a TV setand it happens to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3". He went on to explain that he was a stunt performer in the 1990 as Leatherface for R.A. Mihailoff; he was also the film's stunt coordinator. Hodder began as a stunt performer in the 1980s and has done stunts in over 50 movies.

Despite his professionalism and skill as a stunt performer, Hodder managed to sustain 2nd and 3rd degree burns over a large portion of his body from a full-body burn stunt gone wrong. For a moment, he was considered to play Freddy Krueger inA Nightmare on Elm Streetbecause of these burns. Despite the traumatic experience, Hodder still agreed to do another full-body burn stunt inFriday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, and set a Guinness World Record for being fully on fire for an astonishing 44 seconds.

While it wasn't quite what fans of Hodder's Jason Voorhees wanted, it's a fun piece of trivia that connects the actor to one of the finest collaborations between two horror movie franchises.Freddy vs. Jasonmay not have started the interconnected universe that some expected it mightand shared universes haven't worked well for horror movies in generalbut it was a treat for slasher movie fans, and delivered on a long-standing promise to have two titans of the genre duking it out.

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Jack Wilhelmi is the horror features editor at Screen Rant, and has been with the site since 2019. He is a lifelong fan of the horror genre, and loves any excuse to discuss genre-related topics, since none of his friends dare challenge him in horror trivia. He has been published on the independent horror blog Morbidly Beautiful, and has covered major genre film festivals such as Cinepocalypse in Chicago. He has also served as a judge for the Ax Wound Film Festival. In his free time, he is a devoted dog dad to a high-spirited rescue pup named Peter Quill and enjoys volunteering with various animal rescue organizations. Jack likes to travel and explore dark tourism-related and other various haunted locations. He enjoys studying psychology, the paranormal, and will watch literally any schlocky B-movie on the planet for a laugh.

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